Course Modules:
Comprehensive
Web Search
Strategies
In this next online exploration, we will spend some time reading several online articles and exploring web sites which have documented the phenomenal first decade growth of the world wide web and attempted to give us a "snapshot" of that growth as well as analysis of what users are doing on the web.
You will read a ten year retrospective look at the web and watch a short YouTube video developed in response to the article. You will also explore several trend analysis charts and read a report published by the Pew Internet and American Life Project.
If you are interested, you can also read Vannevar Bush's original 1945 article, an article on Ted Nelson and a 1996 article on web searching that accurately predicted some of the key issues and technology that have evolved in the past decade.
Click the
link below to begin your exploration. Note: This link will open in
a new browser window (or tab). Close that window/tab to return to this
page when you complete your online explorations.
Take a moment to consider that as you explored those articles that you were seeing Bush and Nelson’s dreams of distributed documents in action. The websites exist in remote locations somewhere out there on the Web. The hypertext links on the course website (which is actually being served off a computer in the Silicon Valley of California) initiate a hypertext transfer protocol (http://…) that bring the text and image files directly to your computer where your web browser converts the digital information back into a readable format.
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