Activities

Activity 1.
I liked Kids search engine ajkid. This search engine filters sites and contents on the Internet that might be inappropriate for kids.

Activity 2.
Using quotation marks reduce the number of sources. The search engine will look for exact words with the same order and filters all other combination of words.

Activity 3.
b and c. Boolify is amazing! It is a useful search engine that gives the user opportunity of searching what exactly needs and what exactly does not need to include in the research. Activity 4. I tried several URL such as www.bbc.com and www.youtube.com on easywhois. The result was very interesting. It provides information regarding registrant, domain name, administrative contact, technical contact, registration service provider, r egistrar of record, domain servers, and domain status. **
 * a. I tried boolean operators on Google, Yahoo, and Ask search engines and obviously it did not work. AND, OR, and NOT appear bold as key word in the sources.

**Activity 5.**
.asia domain serve as regional domain in the region of Asia, Australia, and Pacific. .biz domain uses by businesses. .com domain is designed for websites contain commercial content. .coop domain uses for the identification and use of cooperative organizations. .edu domain is designed for educational institutions. .gov domain uses by government entities in the United States. .info domain uses for informative Internet resources. .jobs domain is designed for websites contain human resource professionals content. .k12 domain is use by K-12 schools. .mil domain is for use of the United States Department of Defense regarding military usages. .mobi domain use for accessing Internet by mobile devices via the Mobile Web. .museum is for use of ** groups or associations related to ** museum who known as International Council of Museum. .name domain uses by individuals to present personal or fictional names. .net domain uses by organizations involved in networking technologies. .org is design for non-profit organizations use or for the websites that contain commercial free content. .pro domain is designed to use by qualified professionals. .sch domain is designed for school and tuition centers. .tel domain is designed to provide a global contacts directory service with all types of contact information .travel** domain is designed for the travel and tourism industry.
 * .aero domain is designed for websites contain aviation related fields.

Activity 6.
To complete this task I went to Alta Vista website and tried "host:ac.ir universities", "host:ac.in hospitals", and "host:ac.ru hospitals" I chose worldwide and all languages options. It listed all universities in Iran, India and Russia respectively. Advanced search setting also helps to narrow the topic and make the search more specific.

Activity 7.
I tried to find all the websites that have informative resources about Haiti thus, my search key was "host:info + Haiti". As a result of the search it listed all the websites that registered by .info domain and contains information regarding Haiti.

Activity 8.
1. Using Google as converter. For example: searching "0 C in F", gives a result such as "0 degree Celsius = 32 degrees Fahrenheit" 2. Using Google to see the time in different cities. For example: searching "Time Paris" may gives a result such as "7:39 // am // Friday (CET) - // Time // in // Paris //, France" 3. Using Google as a dictionary. For example: searching for "define teacher" may gives definition such as "person whose occupation is teaching"  4. Using Google as a spell checker. If we miss spell words during the search Google automatically recommend the correct spell of the words. 5. Using Google to find about movie show time. Just need to type movies following by zip code. For example: searching for "movies 74075" will list name and show time of the movies in Stillwater, OK.

Activity 9.
I asked one of my friends who is a student of Computer Science in OSU, if he has ever heard of boolify. Surprisingly he did not know about this search engine therefore, I had a opportunity to show him the website and taught him how to use boolean operators for searching on the Internet.

Activity 10.
I taught to one of my friend about special features of Google which, some of them have been mentioned in activity 8. She was so excited when I showed her how she can find different time zones by simply typing two words of the "time" and "city name".