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1.True or False? Everything is on the Web.
False, Everything is not accessible through the internet.

2.True or False? Any information can be found on the web for free. False, things on the internet still need to be purchased to be available.

3.True or False? Google searches the entire web. False, not entirely True. I believe that Google on do a basic search for the material.

4.True or False? Every search engine returns the same results. False! Every search engine has its on way of searching the material and therefore they don't return with the same information. Sometimes the search engines will give the result plus extra information and some don't give any information that is valuable.

5.Go to the OCC Library webpage:http://oaklandcc.edu/Library/. On the left side of the page click on Internet Search:http://oaklandcc.edu/Library/internet_search.asp. Go to the WolframAlpha search engine:http://www.wolframalpha.com/. Put your main topic in the search window along with the words: narrow term. Do a second search with your main topic in the search window with the words: broad term. List the narrow and broad terms that you get from these two searches. Age, and eld

6.Explain the meaning of .com; .org and .gov.
. com is a acronym for company websites, Org is short for organizations websites and gov, is short for government websites

7.Google your topic at http://www.google.com and choose one website from the first page of links retrieved.
What terms did you enter in the search box? Drinking Legal Age.

What is the title and address of the site you chose? Include date of publication and date of access.
Title : Drinking Age, Address: http://drinkingage.procon.org/view.resource.php?resourceID=002591
Publication Date: 12/4/2013 ...

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10.Go back to the OCC Library Homepage and click on the Internet Search page:http://oaklandcc.edu/Library/internet_search.asp. Click on the ipl2 link under Subject Directories.http://www.ipl.org/. Compare your results with your original Google search and with the results in your InFomine search. How are they different? Choose one site and list the title and the web address. Include the date of publication and date of access. Re Thinking Drinking Alcohol and your health, http://www.rethinkingdrinking.niaaa.nih.gov/ . I found it hard to research my topic on this website as well. When I typed in Legal drinking age, the articles was based on water consumption. I had to go a couple pages down to find an article about Legal drinking Age. After a few try's I found one. It's related because will express what alcohol does to your health.

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