Assignment 4. Due November 14 at start of the tutorial.

The purpose of this assignment is to better understand the
use of internet search engines. 

For each of the following questions  (i.e. ``information needs''), use your
favourite search engine(s) to try to obtain the correct answer. 
For each question, keep a detailed log of your use of the internet. 
More specifically, for each question, 
indicate the queries you presented (and what search engine
was given that query) and for each such query specify:
  a) how many responses to the query  were ``considered'' (i.e. you looked
       at the title and/or excerpt) 
  b) how many of the pages that you considered were then accessed
     and how many contained the correct
     or relevant (i.e. seemingly helpful for answering the question)
     information
  c) what further hyperlinks were accessed;  provide an ``access tree''
     for the hyperlink accesses as explained by Karolina in the tutorial.
  d) whether or not the search was successful and if the search was
     unsuccessful or successful but difficult, explain why you think
     this was a difficult ``information need'' to satisfy
Discuss any special search engine features (beyond key word search) that 
you used. Are there any additional search features you
would have liked to have had available? Finally, for successful searches
explain why you are or are not confidant about the correctness of the result
you obtained. In particular, did you ever obtain two different answers
to the question?   



Questions:

A) In what year did the actor John Wayne (``the Duke'') graduate high school?

B) What is the origin of the phrase "hot potato"?

C) Which Canadian Prime Minister lived longest (i.e. died
   at the oldest age)? Note: this question is not asking
   about the longest serving prime minister.  

D) What is the annual rainfall of countries in western Europe?
   (Or you can restrict the question to a single country, say Germany.)