Solutions for Search Exercises

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Search Exercise 1: using Yahoo, enter wake forest library in the search box.
Solution: Here is the web page for Wake Forest University's Z. Smith Reynolds Library.

Search Exercise 2: using Ask Jeeves, enter what time is it in Sydney, Australia? in the search box.
Solution: Click on the answer, and a Swissinfo web page will display the current time in Sydney, Australia.

Search Exercise 3: in HotBot, under the "Look for" option select "Boolean phrase" and enter "whirling disease" and parasite in the search box.
Solution: This page from the Whirling Disease Initiative provides the name of the parasite, Myxobolus cerebralis

Search Exercise 4: using the Excite, enter "Sears Tower" in the search box.
Solution: Use the "Building Facts" link on the Official Sears Tower Web Site to discover that the Sears Tower is 1454 feet tall.

Search Exercise 5: using the AltaVista Simple Search, enter el nino forecasts in the search box.
Solution: This NOAA El Nino Page includes links to current forecasts and research.

Search Exercise 6: using Google, enter Sense and Sensibility electronic in the search box.
Solution: Select this University of Maryland site to access an electronic version of Sense and Sensibility.

Search Exercise 7: using All the Web, All the Time, enter +vonnegut +critical +bibliography in the search box.
Solution: There is a link to a Critical Bibliography on this comprehensive Kurt Vonnegut Web site.

Search Exercise 8: using the Google, enter riven official in the search box.
Solution: Here is the official Riven web site.

Search Exercise 9: using Librarians' Index to the Internet, enter frog sounds in the search box.
Solution: Click on the link under Specific Resources to display this page, Sounds of North American Frogs. Click on More audio samples and pictures to hear the sounds of 14 North American frogs.

Search Exercise 10: using Yahoo, enter dickson mounds museum in the search box.
Solution: Dickson Mounds Museum is located on Routes 97 and 78 between Havana and Lewistown, Illinois. The museum is open daily from 8:30 am to 5:00 pm.