Amazing Day 3 part 2

1. Who was the creator of the infamous "lovebug" computer virus? Onel de Guzman (yahoo)

2. Who invented the paper clip? Johann Vaaler (A9)

3. How did the Ebola virus get its name? named after the Ebola River in Zaire (ask jeeves)

4. What country had the largest recorded earthquake? Chile (hotbot)

5. In computer memory/storage terms, how many kilobytes in a terabyte? One kilobyte is equal to 9.313226E-10 terabytes (ask jeeves)

6. Who is the creator of email? Ray Tomlinson (yahoo)

7. What is unique about the political organisation of the Kingdom of Nri? An assistant professor at the University of Southern Mississippi has been made royalty, Douglas Chambers was the first white person to be adopted by the royal lineage of nri after he spent years researching the eastern Nigerian group (ujiko)

8. If you wanted to contact the prime minister of australia directly, what is the most efficient way? via Australia Post: The Hon John Howard MP Prime Minister, Parliament House, CANBERRA ACT 2600 (yahoo)

9. Which Brisbane punk band is Stephen Stockwell (Head of the School of Arts) a member of? Black Assassins (ask jeeves)

10. What does the term "Web 2.0" mean in your own words? Web 2 is about using the internet as a platform to upload and download information to share with others, or using the internet the way it was designed to be used (ujiko)

How do search engines rank the stuf they find on the internet? i would assume they rank the stuff with all the search criteria before stuff with only part of the criteria.

who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results? i would hope that the ones put at the top of the search page were the ones that matched my criteria fully, but i think some search engines put ones that pay at the top.

what are some of your favourite search engines? why do you like one more than others? i still like google, probably because im use to it and its familiar. after doing this tutorial session though i quite liked ujiko (as it tells me its doing a thorough search of millions of web sites, yet only offers me a choice of their top 10) and ask jeeves (as it gave options for a refined search in the left hand panel - which i actually used a couple of times). i dislike google (i know i just contradicted myself :) and yahoo for the same reasons - too much advertising, too busy a page and they take money to put search results at the top.