1. The Home button's title on Firefox is "Blackboard Learn" and the default URL is https://mymasonportal.gmu.edu/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp
b. This page is set as the default page in the settings menu. If you want to change the setting you can go to "Tools" and then click on "Options" to change your homepage to whichever site you want.2. On Firefox you are able to change fonts and sizes of webpages on your browswer by using the Web Developer option under the "Tools" tab. By doing this you will be able to stylistically customize your experience on your web browser.
3. The default search engine on Mozilla Firefox is Google. You are able to access the search engine by typing in the search bar in the top right corner or in the top address bar.
4 a. By searching, learning to make web pages, Google generated about 322,000,000 results. Only a small fraction of these results actually would help someone in learning how to make a web page.
b. By searching "learning to make web pages" with the quotation marks, there were significantly fewer results displayed, with only about 24,300 results. A good number of these results
Here are some of the result links for this search:
http://prezi.com/6pmjrrse7-vy/learning-to-make-web-pages-using-html/
http://pwr.gmu.edu/courses/375/mod1-2.html
http://www.web-site-building-tips.com/learning-to-make-web-pages.html
c. If you run this search on http://www.bing.com you get 123,000,000 results. However if you run the search with quotation marks, you will get 12,300 results. These were some of the results:
http://www.make-a-web-site.com/
http://www.pagetutor.com/html_tutor/index.html
e. If you choose to use http://teoma.com you will get an unknown number results from Ask. If you search with quotation marks around "learning to make web pages" you will get fewer results that are more accurate in helping you figure out how to make a web page. These are some of the results:
http://www.web-site-building-tips.com/learning-to-make-web-pages.html
http://www.surfnetkids.com/webpage97.htm
g. The search engine Kartoo was temporarily down, so the searches could not be completed.
5. The number of search results are different for each search engine, with Google having the most. However, most of the time, if quotation marks were used then the searches were more helpful and focused. If you are interested in finding out how to do something, then going to ask.com is helpful. Ask.com or Teoma was one of the more helpful search engines when it came to searching about learning to do something.6. Wolfram Alpha is an online calculator that can do many different calculations. However, it can be considered a search engine because there is a search bar, the option to type any equation, and a vast amount of results that show up pertaining to your query.
7. Dogpile is a metasite that is able to conduct searches on multiple search engines at the same time. b. After searching, learning to make web pages, many results were displayed. The matches are organized by most relevant to search query. c. These are some of the search results: http://www.make-a-web-site.com/ http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20081202065630AAyQ7Gw Many of these search results relate to learning to make a webpage, however many of these pages are also unhelpful and are scams.8. Searching on www.mamma.com, many results showed up, although the specific number was not shown. The matches seem to be organized by relevancy, similar to the search in Dogpile. b. Dogpile and Mamma gave relatively the same search results.
9. On the front page of Dogpile, there are ways to search specifically for multimedia. b. You can choose to search specifically for images or videos. c. I searched under Video for Divergent trailer. I got many video results from many different websites, although a specific number was not displayed. d. There were no warnings, disclaimers, or other information provided about using the results displayed.10. I did a search in Google for web hosting sites. There are many great sites out there to host on, including famous ones, like GoDaddy. But, another great hosting site is iPage. This site has a free domain, unlimited bandwidth, and has a money-back guarantee. It costs $1.99 a month to host a website here.
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