For the lab period of session 7 we borrowed some questions that were first posed on "The Internet Hunt" in 1994. We suggest that you select two or three of these questions to search on one or more of the Web Search Engines discussed in Session 7, to get a feeling for the differences among them. Access to various search engines is provided from the section of the Library Home Page labeled as "Research Resources on the Internet"
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Questions from
THE INTERNET HUNT 1994
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1. My grandfather told me that he served in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service
during WWI. He was stationed aboard the USS BASS. He told me that it was
sunk during WWII in U.S. coastal waters. How could this have happened?
[Question designed by Gerald Viers and Tony Safina]
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2. In what Gilbert & Sullivan operetta was "Sir Speak" mentioned?
[Question designed by Hope Tillman and Walt Howe]
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3. I am preparing to teach a Business Ethics class on corporate
responsibility for pollution prevention. I would like to find one or two
management case studies with workbooks and teachers' guides. Where can I find
and order them?
[Question designed by Walt Howe and Hope Tillman]
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4. Over the years, some of my students in my Biology class who are
sensitive to animal rights issues, have expressed concern over the
required frog dissection. I have heard that there are some interactive
frog dissection kits available on the net that take the student step by
step through an actual dissection. How can I find two or more of them?
[Question designed by Lu Wilson]
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5. Can I find a picture on the Web of the galaxy-gobbling black hole
that the Hubble Space Telescope recently discovered?
[Question asked by Rick Gates]
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6. A teacher at my daughter's school developed this facinating
'Wolf Study' unit for her third grade pupils. She said that she found
much of the information at a gopher site on the internet. She downloaded
telemetry data, study guides, behavioral data, photo-quality images,
wolf howls and even the utilities to convert the images and sounds -
all in one place! Where is this gopher and how can I find it?
[update this question by seeing if any of the informaton has been
converted with HTML and made available on a webserver]
[Question designed by Lu Wilson]
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7. My child was given a storywriting assignment in which she must use
animals from "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" as characters in her work.
I've heard I can find an ASCII (text) version of Lewis Carroll's story
somewhere on the Internet, but I don't know where to begin. Please tell
me where I can find it and list six animals from the story.
[Question designed by Steve Harter, Simon Hernandez, Tom Hocking,
Melanie Stallings]
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8. I see foods and beverages labled 'light' or 'lite' all the time
these days... what does the U.S. Food and Drug Administration consider
thesemterms to mean?
[Question designed by Rick Gates]
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9. When did Lenin write the letter to Gorky requesting that he break
his connections to the bourgeois intelligentsia?
[Question designed by Melody Winkle]
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Developer of the Internet Hunt:
Rick Gates rgates@locust.cic.net
Director of Development
Net Assets Fax and Voice: (602) 318-3609
5332 E. Waverly St.
Tucson, AZ 85712
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TIPS for getting to the answers! This is a lot easier in 1997 than it
was in 1994, when Web search engines were still in early development
and the Web itself was not untilized to the extent it is today.
1. Try HOTBOT. Search "USS Bass" as an exact phrase.
2. HOTBOT again, exact phrase search on "sir speak". Fast results!
3. Try Metacrawler, throw in as many relevant words as possible and
click on "search all words" - some possible hits are retrieved.
4. HOTBOT does this almost instantly - search frog dissection kit as
an exact phrase.
5. HOTBOT retrieves LOTS of possibilities; search for all words and
type as many as seem relevant e.g., "hubble space telescope black hole galaxy"
6. Could not find the Gopher any longer, but several good web sites
exist; an exact phrase search on "wolf behavior" in HOTBOT retrieves
plenty of possibilities
7. Open Text retrieved more than two hundred matches on the title as
an exact phrase (including the apostrophe in "Alice's").
8. Open Text found a small number of highly relevant sites with the
search "lite light FDA" as an all words search.
9. Open Text, again, did a great job - found an amazing site at
Hanover College with the fulltext of many letters from Lenin online.
Search "lenin gorky" and click search all words.
A.Ricker
22 January 1997
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