Searching the Web

Web Based Search: Genghis Kahn

For my web based search I chose to study the life of Genghis Khan; the leader of the largest empire the world has ever seen. I decided to use Lycos as my search provider. I used Lycos because I've heard that it is a very reputable site yet I had never used it before. I was very pleased with the results I received, not only were the search results accurate within the first 10 hits provided, but I also found useful information within the first 25 sites provided.

The keywords I used to find my results were initially, “Genghis Khan”, and although these results were very helpful I found that by narrowing my search using, “The life of Genghis Khan” I reduced my number of hits by over 200,000 results. An odd note to mention is that when I refined my search, my second hit presented was the least helpful of my top 10 results. This was because the search focused on the Phrase, “the life of Genghis Khan”. After seeing this, Lycos found an article titled, “a timeline of the life of Genghis Khan.”, which only focused on a very broad overview of Khans life and accomplishments.

Just as an experiment I tested the exact same search on Google, which is my regular search engine. I was shocked to find that Google turned up over 800,000 more results than Lycos, however the top 10 search results we much less helpful than those provided by Lycos. This just goes to show that it’s about quality over quantity, and I believe I may have found a new search provider.

1st Blog Assignment

After being told that this Blog was to be written on a subject of our choice, I felt it was my responsibility to voice my opinion on the changes necessary to put the Philadelphia Flyers back in Stanley Cup contentions for the 07-08 season. As any hockey fan very well knows, it has been a rough season for the Flyers to say the least. After a stellar season and an admirable playoff run, the last place you would expect to see the Flyers the following season was last place. Yet shocking as it is, that is exactly where they find themselves. The Flyers have not seen a more dissapointing season in over 25 years. Despite this pitfall, I feel there are a minimal number of changes needed to be made to put the Flyers back on top for the next hockey season.
First I'll start with what the Flyers are finally doing right at this point in the season. They fired the teams general manager Bobby Clarke. The man was a legendary hockey player, but had no business sense, nor could he adapt to the changing NHL. The next step in the right direction made this season is serious talk about turning Peter Foresburg into a free agent. At the salary he is making, he is simply not delivering what was expected from a player of such high regaurds; he misses too many games and has failed to adapt to Flyers hockey. With this salary free to spend, the Flyers could draft other players who can benefit the team. The biggest hole the Flyers have finally filled was putting a new man between the pipes. Nittamaki and Esche have been having less than stellar seasons in goal, and the introduction of a new and promising goalie from the farm league named Michael Leighton, may be positive foreshadowing of things to come.
Now for the revisions to the team not yet made, although it is a short list, here are necessary changes the Flyers need to make by next season. Defense, Defense, Defense, you can’t stress it enough. The Flyers need new defensive pointsman. They have been allowing far too many pointless zone clears, neutral zone errors, and worst off, defensive zone turnovers. The Flyers also need a strong center; another Eric Lindros to get in the crease and fight to punch the rebounds in, or create deflections. Last but not least, they need to improve communication, in Hockey you have to talk a lot, and with so many players on the team speaking different languages this is a big problem. So despite the popular opinion, the Flyers are not a dying team by any means, they are simply a team that had to break down completely to finally see the faults they had been neglecting to fix.

Billy Blogged a Boiling Bottle of Buttercups

Hello there my faithful readers, I know my popularity on the internet has exploded since I've posted this blog, but I just want you to know that I dislike you all and think your a big group of poor lonley degenerates for finding nothing better to do with your time then read some morons forced blog assingnment. I prey thee to concider thy gloryios victory a testimate to our all-powerful ruler
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