Search engine questions

what is a search engine? Quote from http://www.virtechseo.com/seoglossary.htm

” A search engine is a searchable online database of internet resources. It has several components: search engine software, spider software, an index (database), and a relevancy algorithm (rules for ranking). The search engine software consists of a server or a collection of servers dedicated to indexing Internet Web pages, storing the results and returning lists of pages to match user queries. The spidering software constantly crawls the Web collecting Web page data for the index. The index is a database for storing the data. The relevancy algorithm determines how to rank queries. Examples of major search engines are Google, AOL, MSN and Lycos, etc.. Examples of major directories are Yahoo!, LookSmart and ODP.”

How do search engines sort the stuff they find on the internet?

The search engines put all results in order of relevanve, how often the searched words apear in the text and if the words form a title or header.

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?

In order to get the top spot on a search engine results page you must have your website optimized for use with a particular search engine . To be “optimized” to a search engine you must use a keyword metatag (A meta tag that allows the author to emphasize the importance of strategic words and phrases used within a Web page. Some search engines respond to this information, others ignore it.http://www.virtechseo.com/seoglossary.htm)

Alphaville

Alphavillie is an old French film about a city that is completely controlled by a computer system the people who live in Alphaville are not allowed to express any emotion or feeling as the computer sees these reactions as illogical . People act illogically are forced to die by firing squad, on a diving board, in a swimming pool. The bodies are then fished out by synchronized swimmers in some strange public spectacle …. talk about illogical. The voice of Alphaville is sounds like it a chain smoker rather than an automated voice.  One of the other strange things about the film that we would think of seeing in a movie about a tyrant computer is the dependence of its functioning on human scientists. The scientists in term are totally Dependant of the computer to control their lives, this is something that was touched on in the second Matrix movie.  There is scene where Neo and the chancellor or whatever his position was are talking about power and how they have machines too purify water and how they can turn them off but without them they will die, thus the conundrum of if the man or the machine has power over the other.

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Week 4 tute task

ok here we go for the scavenger hunt.
(I used metacrawler to find these answers)

1. What is the weight of the world’s biggest pumpkin? 1,502 pounds according too http://www.pumpkinnook.com/giants/record.htm

2. What is the best way (quickest, most reliable) to contact Grant Hackett? If you want to contact Grant, write to the Miami Swimming Club, their address is:Miami Swimming ClubPO BOX 2461BURLEIGH QLD 4220

3. What is the length of a giraffe’s tongue? 18 – 20 inches long according too http://www.sandiegozoo.org/animalbytes/t-giraffe.html (stay classy San Diego)

4. How would you define the word ‘ontology’? In your own words, what does it really mean ? An ontology is a specification of a conceptualization. From http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/kst/what-is-an-ontology.html

5. What was David Cronenberg’s first feature film? Transfer in 1966 {http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000343/}

6. When was the original ‘Hacker’s Manifesto’ written? January 8 1986 {www.mithral.com/~beberg/manifesto.html}

7. Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with ’555′? it was started way back in the day when the first 3 letters of a dialed number corresponded to an area for example Central 898989 would be CEN898989 using the numbers 236 for cen. the number 555 was not used often as J,K and L can;t be used to create any place names. Hollywood film makers were encouraged to start numbers with 555 so that fan wouldn’t hassle real people.

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

9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965? Inapparently “Do the clam” by Elvis

10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals? Black assassins