Web Search Activity Answers Template
IMPORTANT! When you open a document directly from a web page, your computer will usually place the document in a “temporary” folder. It is crucial that you save the document to a different location before you spend hours entering your work into it.
If you are at all unsure how to save a downloaded file to a stable location, then do this instead: Go to your word processing program, open a new/blank document, and save it. Then copy and paste the contents of this template into your own document.
Your Name:
1. Find a webpage that includes the exact phrase “surveillance bunny” and copy the link/URL into your document.
2. How many results when you run the two searches?
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3. Craft a search formulation using all three terms and including the OR operator.
4. Using the minus-sign operator, find a recipe for fries that can be made with something other than potatoes. Copy a link to that recipe onto your document.
5. Run a wildcard search. Copy any two sentences or phrases that you find using this search method.
6. When was archive.org last cached? Copy the date into your document.
7. Briefly describe two reasons why you might want to access a cached page.
8. Go to www.ala.org/acrl/standards/ilframework Use Ctrl F to find the short line of text in which the word synthesize appears. Copy the line into your document.
9. Find a webpage from the past month that addresses the topic of data privacy. Copy the link/URL into your document.
10. Using results from your edu-filtered search, find an essay-help webpage that is not trying to sell you anything. Copy the link/URL into your document.
11. Copy the URL of one other page on which the computer picture appears.
12. Go to YouTube.com and run a search with the terms web search. Filter for videos longer than 20 minutes. Once you’ve found one, copy the link/URL into your document.
13. Describe one Advanced search method—in Google, or any search engine you please— that has not already been discussed in the Activity.
14. Convert 6.2 out of 8 to a percentage.
15. Find a pre-2007 archived version of television without pity.com Take a screenshot of the page and copy it into your document.
