Week3 Tute 10:00~12:00

2a
1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?
Weighing in at 1,502 pounds, a pumpkin owned by a Rhode Island farmer may set a new world record for the biggest pumpkin in the world.
http://www.wayodd.com/new-record-may-be-set-for-biggest-pumpkin-in-the-world/v/5402/

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett?

3. What is the length of a giraffe's tongue?
A giraffe's tongue can up to 22 inches long.
http://www.asij.ac.jp/elementary/projects/2-eb/zoo/shizukat.htm

4. How would you define the word 'ontology'? In your own words, what does it really mean ?
http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

5. What was David Cronenberg's first feature film?
The director's first feature film slithered onscreen in 1975. "Shivers" (aka "The Parasite Murders" and "They Came From Within")
http://www.salon.com/people/bc/1999/11/30/cronenberg/

6. When was the original 'Hacker's Manifesto' written?
The Mentor+++
Written on January 8, 1986
http://www.technozen.com/manifesto.htm

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?

30 years ago or more when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc.
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.
http://www.omegarobot.com/article/555.html

8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?
I'll Never Find Another You The Seekers
http://www.onmc.iinet.net.au/topspot/1965.htm

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?
Stephen played keyboard for Brisbane punk band Black Assassins.
http://www.griffith.edu.au/school/art/staff/stockwell.htm
2b
1.What is a search engine?
A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a list of the documents where the keywords were found.
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/s/search_engine.html

2.How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog/061016-112712

3.who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?

4.what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others?
My favourite search engines are Google, Yahoo. Yahoo search engines is my first know how to do research's engine and Goggle search engine was my friend told me this is a good search engine which is better than yahoo. Therefore now I use both of them to do my research.

5. Can you find some current news stories about search engines? (for example, Google has been in the technology news a bit lately).

http://www.intrapromote.com/case-studies.html

http://www.havenworks.com/news/search/