WWW+Search

WWW Search

1. Using the search engine Clumsy (which I discovered through Vivisimo), I typed in "Super Bowl XLIV, national anthem" to see if I could find out who the performer would be for the National Anthem at the Super Bowl (it's Carrie Underwood).

I then used searchengineguide.com to help me find a list of good songs to run to (I'm new to the sport and can use some good, motivating music). Because this site matches up your interests by category, it put me in touch with the site Run the Planet. It was a good site, but my question still wasn't answered, so I then went to alltheweb.com and searched "music for running" and it put me right in touch with a whole big bunch of resources.

All three methods were quite easy to use and I'm glad I now have more searching options besides Yahoo and Google!

2. I tried to use teoma.com for this search, but was unsuccessful in reaching the site - not sure what the problem was. I then attempted the search with dogpile.com, but it didn't give me a number of results for each search. So I ended up on google.com. I searched "recycling centers in Oklahoma" and with quotation marks, I ended up with 874,000 hits. With quotes, I got 262,000 results - still a huge number, but a fraction of what I started with.

3. A. Because I'm getting married in the summer, I searched for strapless AND chiffon AND wedding, which resulted in a plethora of sites that have dresses with these characteristics.

B. Using boolify.org, I searched travel AND wedding AND beach AND NOT Cuba and came up with several million results. Not too shabby!

C. These are great resources for searching - I love how you can specify what you're not looking for, as well. After getting a bit more specific, I should have it narrowed down to some good sites to check out.

4. The domain name that I wanted to know more about is OrangePower.com, a popular website for OSU sports fans. I know it is independent of Oklahoma State University, so I was curious to know who got it started. Through easywhois.com, I discovered it's a guy named Greg with addresses here in Stillwater and Tulsa. Very interesting!

5. .aero = for Aviation .asia = for companies, organizations and individuals for those within the Asia, Australia and Pacific regions .biz = for business or commercial use .com = any person or entity can use this domain .coop = for cooperatives .edu = for accreditted post secondary institutions .gov = for US governmental use .info = for informational purposes - any person or entity can register for this domain .jobs = for companies advertising jobs .k12 = for elementary and secondary school system use .mil = for US military .mobi = for mobile compatible sites .museum = for museums .name = for individuals, by name - anyone may register .net = for networks - anyone may register .org = for organizations - anyone may register .pro = for professions - must be a certified or licensed lawyer, accountant, physican or engineer in France, UK, Canada or the US .sch = I'm not entirely sure on this one, but I found it to be for schools in the UK .tel = for internet communications services .travel = for the travel and tourism industry

6. I had a little trouble with this task, but after trying to find a list of hospitals in Greece, I finally came up with the following result: [] by typing "host:gr + hospitals" in the search box.

7. I wanted to find travel sites containing the word "rafting" so in the altavista.com search box, I entered "host:travel + rafting" and got 125,000 results.

8. Weather for Chicago, IL (I already know what the weather is here in Stillwater :) ): 25 degrees and cloudy with a chance of snow.

Time in New Delhi, India at the time of this search: 9:09am on Monday (it's 9:39pm in Stillwater on Sunday) (Kind of strange that it's a 30 min. difference.)

Book Search: The new Michael Crichton book that was recently released is called Pirate Latitudes.

Earthquake: Yesterday there was a 3.3 magnitude earthquake in the Dominican Republic.

Movie Times: Avatar is playing at the Stillwater theater at 1:00pm, 4:30pm and 8:00pm.

9. I shared the information on how to find the owner of a domain name and the extra services from Google (from Activity 8) with my fiance. He wants me to send him the links to these so he can check them out!

10. I also shared information on the boolify.org website and several of the less popular, but possibly more effective search engines with my mom who works in a school. She said she's looking forward to giving these a try and passing along the information to other teachers and staff.

Bonus: I tried to create the search engine from my home computer, but the site wouldn't let me log on...I'll try again tomorrow from school.