Week One Lab1

Week One LabIdentifying and Describing Internet SourcesNASCARLoraine J JacksonEverest University

Identifying and Describing Internet Sources1. Use Google to complete this exercise by typing the following URL into your address bar and pressing enter: http://www.google.coma. Type NASCAR into the search box. How many Web pages are found on that topic?After typing NASCAR into the search page, is lists approximately 27,400,000 results.b. Now click on the images tab at the top left hand side of the Google page and write down how many pages are listed.After clicking on the images tab, there are about 9,990,000 images listed, almost 10 million.c. Go to the official Website for NASCAR. List the first 4 tabs at the top of the NASCAR page.The first tab is called Sprint Cup and offers information under this tab, there are several other tabs; Racing Center, News, Video, Schedule, Results & Standings, Drivers, Fans, Fantasy, Live, and Shop. The next tab is Nationwide, followed by Camping World Truck. The last tab is Home Tracks; with other tabs listed below include Home, K&N Pro, International, Whelen Modified, Whelen All-American, Diversity, and Find Your Home Track.2. Here is an exercise on phrase searching. Go to Google at www.google.com. Type in bats in your belfry into the search box.How many results did you find?After typing in bats in your belfry and clicking enter, there were about 248,000 results.Now go back and add quotation marks around the phrase. How many results did you find this time? After adding the quotation marks, there were only about 7,970 results.Do you think these results are better? I do think these results were better. The first results were much higher in numbers as well as being very broad. Because the quotation marks are used to differentiate a phrase from words search by themselves, the results were much more precise when used in the second search attempt.3. If we type "global warming" into a search engine, we are engaging in ___________ searching.Phrase Searching

ReferencesHartman, K., & Ackermann, E. (2010). Search & Researching on the Internet and the World Wide Web (5 ed.). Sherwood, OR: Franklin, Beedle & Associates. Retrieved July 18, 2014NASCAR (2014) Retrieved July 18, 2014 from http://www.nascar.com/en_us/sprint-cup-series.html