Tuesday, November 30, 2004
Website Review #5
Website Review, #5 of 5
Bill Zawacki
Ed 436 Technology Across the Curriculum
November 30, 2004
Site Name: Google
Site URL: http://www.google.com
Author Information: Originally some Stanford grad students. Now a commercial interprise.
Requirements: Just Internet access with a browser, I used Internet Explorer running under Windows XP
Weaknesses: Information overload. Searches return information based on a mysterious priority that has a lot to do with who is paying to have their sites promoted. Just try Googleing your own name.
Strengths: Google is probably the most commonly used search engine on the Internet. It is able to search an enormous amount of website information in sub-second time. In most cases, I don’t bother to find a URL for even common sites like the IRS. I just Google “tax forms” and the site is easily found. The URLs for most of my previous website reviews were found this way.
Uses: The use and misuse of search engines should probably be taught and practiced starting in elementary school. It is just a part of technical literacy, possibly becoming as important as traditional literacy.
Bill Zawacki
Ed 436 Technology Across the Curriculum
November 30, 2004
Site Name: Google
Site URL: http://www.google.com
Author Information: Originally some Stanford grad students. Now a commercial interprise.
Requirements: Just Internet access with a browser, I used Internet Explorer running under Windows XP
Weaknesses: Information overload. Searches return information based on a mysterious priority that has a lot to do with who is paying to have their sites promoted. Just try Googleing your own name.
Strengths: Google is probably the most commonly used search engine on the Internet. It is able to search an enormous amount of website information in sub-second time. In most cases, I don’t bother to find a URL for even common sites like the IRS. I just Google “tax forms” and the site is easily found. The URLs for most of my previous website reviews were found this way.
Uses: The use and misuse of search engines should probably be taught and practiced starting in elementary school. It is just a part of technical literacy, possibly becoming as important as traditional literacy.
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