搜尋引擎 作業八

1. According to the dictionary, what is an “urban legend”?

解答: a story that appears mysteriously and spreads spontaneously in various forms and is usually false; contains elements of humor or horror and is popularly believed to be true

wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
搜尋過程:

在GOOGLE搜尋框內打入define:urban legend

在奇摩字典打urban legend

2. Find the history of the word ‘chivalry.’ From which language does it come and from what word?
解答:由法文,西班牙文,義大利文衍生而來,都是騎在馬背上的捍衛者的意思中世紀的十字軍東征慢慢衍伸出騎士精神,但是之後的要求越來越嚴格
搜尋過程:

在google搜尋框打入history of the word ‘chivalry’

約有645,000項符合history of the word ‘chivalry’

選擇Growth And Decadence Of Chivalry

http://history-world.org/Chivalry,%20growth%20and%20decadence%20of.htm

3. Does Google provide a link to dictionary for definitions of terms in languages other than English?
解答: 中文（簡體） 中文（繁體） 俄文 義大利文 英文 的 catalog定義
搜尋過程: 在google搜尋框打入define: catalog
4. What does ‘zeitgeist’ mean? What’s on the Google Zeitgeist page www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html ?
解答: A German term meaning "spirit of the time." It refers to the moral and intellectual trends of a given era. Examples of zeitgeist include the preoccupation with the more morbid aspects of dying and death in some Jacobean literature, especially in the works of dramatists Cyril Tourneur and John Webster, and the decadence of the French Symbolists.
搜尋過程: 在google搜尋框打入

連結www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html

可以看到Google所統計出來的的搜尋排行榜，不僅有各個類別也有各個時間的搜尋排行榜。

1. After Nelson Blachman received reprints of a paper he wrote for the June 2003 issue of the Mathematical Scientist, he wanted to discover what other sorts of papers appear in the same issue of this semiannual publication. Find a table of contents for The Mathematical Scientist for Nelson.
解答:
搜尋過程: 在google搜尋框打入

2. Compare the dates on the current page with the dates on the cached version for the following organizations:
˙CNN
˙New York Times
˙Java Pro Magazine
˙North Texas Food Bank
解答:
搜尋過程: 在google搜尋框打入
3. Check the dates that the Wayback Machine archived versions of Google Guide
解答:
搜尋過程:在google搜尋框打入