Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Terry Wasserman
Internet Assignment #2
30 April 2008
Prof. Okobi
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1. Show your analysis of the question, what type of question, what resource
4. Give the URL of the answer. If the URL is one of the very long ones use
Questions
1. Business are classified under SIC Codes. What does SIC mean?
abbreviations dictionary I was familiar with as being touted as a “best website of the
definitions of SIC. Only two of them were listed under the business category and those
2. I need a gazetteer for information on the Demographic and other types of information
needed a gazetteer that would have the most recent US census information. I began
Gazetteer is located—however, I quickly realized that their census data is from 1990. So,
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I then did a google search for ”census bureau demographics” and found two sites,
http://tinyurl.com/232j
and http://tinyurl.com/ufd9. The former site, at census.gov, was certainly very reliable, a
government site, but not terribly easy to use. The latter site, also at census.gov, provides
the same census information but in a more user-friendly way and with access to more
information.
3. I have just changed my living room carpet and my pet has stained it badly, can you find
This is not the first time I have performed this search, so I already knew about the
Humane Society page on pet stain removal. However, I began this search by analyzing
the question as a specific search question and realizing that this information would not be
by references. So, I did a google search for stain removal and found a new website,
Knowing that most national and regional newspapers now maintain a presence on
the world wide web, I analysed the question as a ready reference question and chose a
google search as my best form of action. I used the search terms “newspaper dailies
Nigeria” and found a very useful site, a world-newspaper site that listed 28 Nigerian
newspapers and online news sources, http://tinyurl.com/c7hj97. The following are the 18
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Daily, Port Harcourt Telegraph, Punch, Sensor, Sun, The Tide, This Day, Times of
5. Provide me with the front page news in New York Times on the day you were born.
This looks like a ready reference query, but it certainly took more than a minute or
two to answer. I began my search by checking the online New York Times archives, but
because I was born before 1980, I could not use the free New York Times index available
online as it only begins in 1980. However, at research branches of the New York Public
Library patrons have access to the entire corpus of the New York Times via ProQuest
database, from 1852 onwards. So, I was able to download the screen shot from their
6. Who was the first female governor of any state in the U.S. that was elected to the post?
Born and bred in the State of Connecticut during her governorship, I knew the
search question in Wikipedia, a source I never use without another source as back-up due
realized that Gov. Grasso was not the first female governor—it was Nellie Tayloe Ross of
Wyoming (though this makes sense, as when I visited Wyoming I remember learning that
Wyoming was the first state/territory to allow women to vote). I checked another site I’d
found in that google search, infoplease.com, and found confirmation that Nellie Tayloe
Ross was, in fact, the first elected female state governor (but just days later Texas