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Module 3 Searching the Web | Internet WEB 147 Case Problem 3 Searching for information on government websites o Doug Taylor is the director of public relations at a southeastern veterans hospital. He has been an outbreak of influenza in approached by a local TV news station for an interview concerning the area. In addition to other information that Doug already holds concerning the o asked you to search for information on government websites that might be pertinent to 1. Open the browser of your choice and navigate to http://www.google.com. utbreak, he has the outbreak. In the search box, type influenza. Press ENTER. How many hits did this search produce? 3. Mod ify your search from step 2 to restrict the search on influenza to the Centers for Disease Control website at http://www.cdc.gov by using the site operator. How many hits did this search produce? It should be many fewer than the search in step 2. Explain why this is so. 4. A wildcard operator is a special character that can be used in a search to stand in for one or more missing characters. One wildcard operator is the character, which can be used to search for results of a certain form without completely specifying exactly what you are searching for For example, if you searched for the query to *, or not to * the search would produce results of this form but could include results for the phrase "to be, or not to be," "to hold, or not to hold," or "to eat, or not to eat," among others. Modify your query from step 3 to search for information on influenza on any government site by using site: .gov. How many hits did this search produce? It should be significantly more than the search conducted in step 3. Explain why this is so. 5. Look through the results from step 4 to compile a list of at least seven different government domain names that are present in the results. Note: For example, cdc.gov is one domain that is present in the results, and nih.gov is another. 6. Submit your answers to your instructor if directed to do so. Include the browser that you chose to use.

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1) Opened the browser Google Chrome.

2) The search produced 4,63,00,00 hits.

3) This search produced 21,900 hits. This is much less than number of hits in previous search because in the previous case we were searching in all the websites wherever search matches but now we are just narrowing it to single website.

4) This search produced 42,10,000 hits. This produces significantly more hits than in previous search as now we are searching in all the websites that have .gov domain. In previous search we were just searching in a single .gov website i.e. "http://www.cdc.gov".

5) 7 domains found in search 4 are: cdc.gov, medlineplus.gov, idaho.gov, nih.gov, illinois.gov, mt.gov, fda.gov

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