Super Searcher: Enhancing Your Online Search Super Powers!

Module Three: Beyond the Big 3

For this assignment, you can only utilize the search engines referenced within Module 3, Book 3: Beyond the Big 3. No other website search engines will be accepted.

  1. I am moving from Columbus, OH to Baltimore, MD and would like to know how the two cities compare. Can you tell me how different the cost of living is? I would also like to know about the average traffic delay as well.
  2. What resource from Book 3 did you select?
  1. What answers did you discover?
  1. How many papers are attributed to Axel T Brunger from Stanford University? How many citations are attributed to him?
  2. What resource from Book 3 did you select?
  1. What answers did you discover?
  1. Can you help me find a line chart? The U.S. Census Bureau keeps data of State Government Finances in the U.S. Can you locate the Debt at the End of the Fiscal Year comparing Colorado and Texas? Is there an HTML code I can have so that I can embed it on a website?
  1. What resource from Book 3 did you select?
  1. What is the HTML Code you discovered?
  1. Can you help me? My association is interested in archiving the content on our web page so that when we go through a redesign next year, people will be able to see what the website looked like before all of the changes.
  2. What website would you refer this person to?
  1. Archive a professional association’s website you belong to. What link does the Wayback Machine provide you?
  1. Go back to the site you used. Has your association’s website been archived before? How would you go about checking that? How many times has it been archived this year?
  1. I recall that there used to be a comic book series called Captain Science. Is there a way I can access those again? I’d like to share them with my son. They seem to be out of print. (Avoid going to Google or any of the other search engines to find the answer. Utilize one of the websites mentioned in the book.)
  2. What resource did you refer to the user?
  1. How many issues do they have available?
  1. I’m working on a PowerPoint presentation. I found this image online somewhere, but forgot where I found it. Can you tell me where this image came from and help confirm that the image is labeled for reuse? What organization shared this image? (Hint: You will need to right click and “Save Image As” to your computer to do a reverse image search.)
  1. What resource did you use to conduct an image search?
  1. What’s the image and who uploaded the work? Is it available for reuse?
  1. I am interested in Introduction to Clinical Biochemistry: Interpreting Blood Results by Dr. Graham Basten. Can I download the book to read on my iPad?
  1. What resource did you select?
  1. To download the resource, what does the user need to provide?
  1. I’m interested in reading The Opium Habit by Horace B. Day. Can you help me find it?
  2. What resource did you select?
  1. Provide a link to the page where you can download the book.
  1. I heard Ken Burns was a featured speaker during the 145th Anniversary of the Gettysburg Address. Can you help me find a video of his speech? Also, can you help me find the names of all of the speakers during the Anniversary? How many speakers were recorded for the anniversary?
  2. What resource did you select?
  1. How many speakers were recorded for the anniversary?
  1. Can you help me locate data?I’m trying to locate a CSV file of Youth Substance Abuse Prevention in the state of Oklahoma.
  2. What resource did you use?
  1. What’s the link of the catalog record?

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