Meteorology 1020


Met1020 - Internet Assignment Internet Assignment 1


The World Wide Web provides access to more information on climate change than you can possibly deal with. Searching and sifting through this information can be time consuming. Many search engines have been developed to reduce the effort required to find a particular subject. However, the output from such searches can often take considerable time to evaluate. The best search engine at the present time is google.com. Google keys on how many other web pages reference a particular page, which is better than simply counting how many times a phrase is used on a page.

The purpose of this assigment is to help you understand why the Internet Companion helps to organize information on climate change. This will be accomplished by having you search for information using google or other Web search engines available.

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Searching for Major Topics

(1) Search for the following phrases using Google AND 1 other search engine of your choice. (2) List in the space below what was the top entry found (include the URL). (3) Describe very briefly which was the better web page in terms of useful information.

Climate

Climate Change (how do you search so that both words must be found?)

Environment

Ozone hole

Deforestation

Global warming

El Nino

Searching for Subjects in On-Line Magazines
Many news magazines have Web versions available on-line. Access one of them (you figure out how to find one) and locate a recent news article related to climate change. Summarize the article very briefly below. Be sure to indicate where the information was obtained (web address).

Due Date September 1, 2000
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