Week 4 tutorial tasks 2A and 2B

Hi all im starting off this post with part 2A of the tasks because its the most fun :)

For Q1. i used yahoo to find the answer. The weight of the worlds most biggest pumpkin is 1502 pounds. Q2. I went through mooter and found that the quickest way to contact grant hackett would be to send a hero message through BigPond Sport. Q3. I went through AltaVista and found that the length of a giraffe's toungue is around 22 inches long and has black with pink dots on it. Q4. I used a9 and found that the word onotology means the branch of metaphysics that studies the nature of existence or being as such. In my own words i would say it means science or something to do with science. Q5. I used hotbot and found that David Cronenburg's first feature film was Shivers in 1975. Q6. I used askjeeves and found that the Hackers Manifesto was originally written in 1986. Q7. I used AOL and found that the reason why hollywood films have phone always starting with 55 is because there use to be a code to dial numbers and due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen.Q8. I used ALLTHEWEB and found that the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes is by Ferry. Q9. I couldnt find the answer to this question. Q10. I used yahoo and found that Stephen Stockwell played in the band the Black Assassins.

2B

What is a search engine? A search engine is somewere where you can go to search for anything.
How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet? They rank the stuff you searched for by the words you typed in the best match sort of thing.
who, or what, makes one page more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results? Im not to sure on that I herd once that you had to pay a fee to be added in the top 5 of a search but im not to sure.
what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others? My fav search engine and most used would be GOOGLE because its quick and easy to use and the most well known.
Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately). No i couldnt find anything.