Chris Nolan- Searching the Internet

Everyone knows that google is the most popular search engine all around the world, but which other search engines are popular after google? Google is the first one with sixty percent of popularity, yahoo is the second with twenty percent, Microsoft is the third with ten percent and ask and AOL have five percent each. Google's percentage is around 85-90 at universities because the new generation is basically using google as the main search engine.
While doing search at google, the google's search engine drops off words such as; the words that are searched through out the whole Internet is underlined at the right side, after you search your word. Typing the words in different orders makes slight differences to the results of your search. Most people who are searching in google are satisfied with the results that they find at the first pages, most of the time.
There are some useful features at the advanced search, such as: you can type in the word that you want to search and then put a (-) sign and type the words that you do not want to face at your results. Also you can limit the results with a particular language.

Copyright

The RIAA, Recording Industry Assn of America, MPAA, Motion Picture Association, ESA, Entertainment Software Association, are interested in campus based file sharing; Lamar Smith owns this district and there is a disproportionately interest on Trinity University and TU gets takedown notices from all three of these firms. These firms should know that we are college students and most of us do not want to spend money buying CDs or paying for the music that we download from internet or from itunes every single day, so most of the people choose to download music using programs like kazaa, limewire, ares. These programs do not care about copyrights or pay dues to the copyright owners, which basically make them illegal. On the other hand, those companies which send takedown notices to Trinity University completely have all the rights to do so because they do not want their author’s work not to get paid by us, the consumers; that’s how they make profit; however, I, like every other Trinity student do not want to pay for the music that I download from internet.

Facebook

Every day, after I wake up, i always check my facebook, before even going to Mabee for breakfast or going to class because that's how I stay in touch with all, not many, all, of my friends. Facebook is a great social networking environment where you can easily keep in touch with your friends by writing to their wall, chatting or sending messages.

The article talks about the effect of the facebook on individuals and it being a huge database: "That data is worth so much more than [anyone] would pay for Facebook." Academically, this site should be useful too because I'm sure that most of the college students check their facebooks more than their e-mails, so professors could assign hw or put some information in a facebook group and not in blackboard, where you have to put down your user name and password multiple times and then search the site to find the information that you are looking for.

Finally, I think when hiring a student or someone, employers should not check their facebooks because I'm sure that everyone has some pictures that they do not want it to be seen by their future bosses. On the other hand, I think it is a huge violation of privacy; however, you can prevent it by putting a block on facebook users who are not your friends, preventing them to see your personal information and even your profile picture.





http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1213/p13s01-legn.html