Search engines used-
visismo.com (V)
yahoo.com (Y)
blackle.com (B)
a9.com (A9)
hotbot.com (HB)
alltheweb.com (A)
1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus?
Onel de Guzman (abcnews.go.com) (Y)
2. Who invented the paper clip?
Johaan Vaaler (inventors.about.com) (B)
3. How did the Ebola virus get its name?
A small river near Northern Zaire near the village where the first isolate of the virus was contained.(standford.edu.au) (V)
4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake?
Chile. (earthquakearchive.com) (A9)
5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte?
There are 1,073,741,824 kbs in a terabyte. (t1shopper.com) (HB)
6. Who is the creator of email?
Ray Tomlinson (technewreviews.com) (Y)
7. What is the storm worm, and how many computers are infected by it?
Computer virus affecting thousands of computers across the world in mid January 2007, affects most windows based platforms. It spread through attachments via email massage and installed Trojan horse onto recipients computer. (snopes.com) (A9)
8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of Australia directly,
what is the most efficient way?
E-mail him though his website- pm.gov.au (Y)
9. Which Brisbane-based punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School
of Arts) a member of?
The Black Assassins, self confessed- ugliest band in Brisbane. (myspace.com) (Y)
10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words?
Web 2.0 is the platform on which the internet is used. It's like the base of a pizza, and web pages are the toppings.
- Who, or what, makes one page more useful that another one, so that it is at the top of your search results?
They rank them from most relevant to less relevant keywords that we type in. Also, the more mainstream websites probably get more hits so they are more likely to be useful.
- Favorite search engines and why?
Google has to be my all time favourite, just because it was my first search engine. During this task though, i found A9.com, which i really am enjoying. It's a bit more serious than google, and a lot more precise i've found.
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