1. Mastering Search – Exercise Questions Taly Sharon

2. Exercises 1.Which queries would match a page containing “GoogleGuide”? a.guide b.leg c.googleguide d.GoogleGuide e.google 2.Which words the following query will find: a.non-profit b.non profit c.Nonprofit

3. Exercises 3.Find information about Bass fish (not the music). 4.Find information about Star Wars I (first episode). 5.Find advice on writing a will. 6.Find info about the band: the who. 7.Find the terms that Google considers approximately equivalent to the term “cheap”.

4. Exercises 8.Find pages on daily life in Afghanistan that do not mention war or the Taliban. 9.The operator NEAR finds documents in which two words are close to each other. Google does not support it (try and see what happens). For instance, word1 NEAR/1 word2 finds document in which word1 and word2 is found separated by at the most one (other) word. using “” and *, construct a query that implements NEAR/2.

5. Exercises 10.Find the document in which the quote: Geeks just gotta have fun If it doesn’t work, find: Keeping it in an array is simplest Go to the bottom of this document and look at the first line of the conclusion. 11.Which Israeli company makes a virtual keyboard using infra-red or laser technologies?

6. Exercises 1.How many square kilometers are 1000 acres? 2.What is patent 5123123 about? 3.How was the Polish city BILGORAY spelled in Hebrew in a picture of a page from a book written there? 4.Find a paper by Ericson about the effects of anti- depressants during pregnancy. 5.Find a list of restaurants and synagogues less than a mile far from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at San Francisco Union Square.

7. Exercises 1.How many square kilometers are 1000 acres? 2.What is patent 5123123 about? 3.How was the Polish city BILGORAY spelled in Hebrew in a picture of a page from a book written there? 4.Find a paper by Ericson about the effects of anti- depressants during pregnancy. 5.Find a list of restaurants and synagogues less than a mile far from the Holiday Inn Crowne Plaza at San Francisco Union Square.

8. Exercises 1.Search for a keyword in a big website (example "acid rain" site:epa.gov) –use several search engines. –How many results do you get? 2.What is the zipcode of 8 Hachermon st. in Kfar Sava? 3.What was the exchange rate of Canadian dollars (in us dollars) from 20 Sep 1991? 4.What was the value of Berkshire stock (BRK.A) on Nov. 12 1996? 5.Who designed Teldan’s website, as existed in May 1998? 6.בשיר עברי המנה השניה היא הרימון, מהי המנה הראשונה? 7.באיזו עיר בישראל גרה דודתו של אברמוביץ אברהם (בומי) ז"ל? http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=90024 http://www.izkor.gov.il/izkor86.asp?t=90024 8.Find a website/database relevant to your work –example: market research, news, stock exchanges, industry.

9. Exercises 1.What are the relevant/related topics to “billing software”? 2.Find authoritative press releases sites. 3.How much is 1 US$ today? 4.What is the meaning of the word “Google”? 5.Find technical, non-commercial, papers about “search engine personalization”. 6.How much a 17’’ flat computer monitor cost?

10. Exercises 1.Which search engine was named after a song from a Disney movie? 2.Why Arrack turns white when mixed with water? 3.How many employees Team company (Israel) has? 4.Find other websites related to MindBranch. 5.Find statistics on how much time Americans spend, on average, searching for information on the Internet. 6.Find statistics on how long it takes for people searching for information to get frustrated when they don’t find what they want?

11. Exercises cont. Find a website that displays the following real-time flight information:

12. Discussion Questions Which American patent that was submitted May 21, 1996 is mentioned in the publications of a mathematician from the Technion? מצא ישוב בארץ שבו בית מס' 19 ברחוב אחד צמוד לבית מס' 37 ברחוב אחר.

13. Questions from the 1 st Israeli Web Searching Championship http://www.esefer.net/solutions.html http://www.esefer.net/info04/solutionsf