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Mastering Search – Exercise Questions

Mastering Search – Exercise Questions. Taly Sharon. Exercises. Which queries would match a page containing “GoogleGuide”? guide leg googleguide GoogleGuide google Which words the following query will find: non-profit non profit Nonprofit. Exercises.

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Mastering Search – Exercise Questions

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  1. Mastering Search –Exercise Questions Taly Sharon

  2. Exercises • Which queries would match a page containing “GoogleGuide”? • guide • leg • googleguide • GoogleGuide • google • Which words the following query will find: • non-profit • non profit • Nonprofit

  3. Exercises • Find information about Bass fish (not the music). • Find information about Star Wars I (first episode). • Find advice on writing a will. • Find info about the band: the who. • Find the terms that Google considers approximately equivalent to the term “cheap”.

  4. Exercises • Find pages on daily life in Afghanistan that do not mention war or the Taliban. • The operator NEAR finds documents in which two words are close to each other. Google does not support it (try and see what happens).For instance, word1 NEAR/1 word2 finds document in which word1 and word2 is found separated by at the most one (other) word. using “” and *, construct a query that implements NEAR/2.

  5. Exercises • Find the document in which the quote: Geeks just gotta have fun • If it doesn’t work, find: Keeping it in an array is simplest • Go to the bottom of this document and look at the first line of the conclusion. • Which Israeli company makes a virtual keyboard using infra-red or laser technologies?

  6. Exercises • How many square kilometers are 1000 acres? • What is patent 5123123 about? • How was the Polish city BILGORAY spelled in Hebrew in a picture of a page from a book written there? • Find a paper by Ericson about the effects of anti-depressants during pregnancy. • Find a list of restaurants and synagogues less than a mile far from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at San Francisco Union Square.

  7. Exercises • How many square kilometers are 1000 acres? • What is patent 5123123 about? • How was the Polish city BILGORAY spelled in Hebrew in a picture of a page from a book written there? • Find a paper by Ericson about the effects of anti-depressants during pregnancy. • Find a list of restaurants and synagogues less than a mile far from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at San Francisco Union Square.

  8. Exercises • Search for a keyword in a big website (example "acid rain" site:epa.gov) • use several search engines. • How many results do you get? • What is the zipcode of 8 Hachermon st. in Kfar Sava? • What was the exchange rate of Canadian dollars (in us dollars) from 20 Sep 1991? • What was the value of Berkshire stock (BRK.A) on Nov. 12 1996? • Who designed Teldan’s website, as existed in May 1998? • בשיר עברי המנה השניה היא הרימון, מהי המנה הראשונה? • באיזו עיר בישראל גרה דודתו של אברמוביץ אברהם (בומי) ז"ל?http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=90024 • Find a website/database relevant to your work • example: market research, news, stock exchanges, industry.

  9. Exercises • What are the relevant/related topics to “billing software”? • Find authoritative press releases sites. • How much is 1 US$ today? • What is the meaning of the word “Google”? • Find technical, non-commercial, papers about “search engine personalization”. • How much a 17’’ flat computer monitor cost?

  10. Exercises • Which search engine was named after a song from a Disney movie? • Why Arrack turns white when mixed with water? • How many employees Team company (Israel) has? • Find other websites related to MindBranch. • Find statistics on how much timeAmericans spend, on average, searching for information on the Internet. • Find statistics on how long it takes for people searching for information to get frustrated when they don’t find what they want?

  11. Exercises cont. Find a website that displays the following real-time flight information:

  12. Discussion Questions • Which American patent that was submitted May 21, 1996 is mentioned in the publications of a mathematician from the Technion? • מצא ישוב בארץ שבו בית מס' 19 ברחוב אחד צמוד לבית מס' 37 ברחוב אחר.

  13. Questions from the 1st Israeli Web Searching Championship • http://www.esefer.net/solutions.html • http://www.esefer.net/info04/solutionsf

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