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March 30, 2006
The envelope, please...
I was able to complete the assignment described in the previous post in under a minute.
It took five seconds to put "Mona Lisa" into my Google picture search bookmark: that returned, in less than one second, this page of thumbnails comprising the first 20 of 58,300 results.
I chose "David Copperfield" over "Robinson Crusoe" because I thought there'd be more results, as Dickens would seem more popular than Defoe to my way of thinking; I put "complete text David Copperfield" into Google and got back this page.
I clicked on the first result and in about 30 seconds was at a page with the full text of "David Copperfield."
For the third item I put "apple pie recipe" into Google and got back this page; I clicked on the first result and voila, there was a recipe — with a picture.
Total time: less than 60 seconds.
Things must have changed a lot on the internet in the past four years, is all I've got to say about that.
March 30, 2006 at 01:01 PM | Permalink
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www.artchive.com/artchive/L/leonardo/monalisa.jpg.html - 5k -
www.cite-sciences.fr/francais/ ala_cite/expo/explora/image/mona/en.php - 21k -
www.buzzle.com/showImage.asp?image=1610 - 1k
Posted by: Nellie | Mar 31, 2006 9:31:16 AM
2 minutes
http://www.brc.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~actan/gallery.html
http://www.bibliomania.com/0/0/19/1992/frameset.html
http://www.pickyourown.org/applepie.php
Posted by: Meg | Mar 31, 2006 9:17:24 AM
This task was EXTREMELY simple.
It took about:
5 seconds to find the Mona Lisa picture
10 seconds to find the full text of Robinson Crusoe
Posted by: Mae | Mar 31, 2006 8:19:54 AM
Google is an amazing tool. Long ago someone told me that it's not important to know everything, only to know how to find it when you need it.
I finished the three tasks in 28 seconds and half of that was trying to get the recipie for apple pie with a pic - took about 4 tries. Robinson Crusoe was easy - first link in Google was for a full text version. I am proud to be a Google Monkey.
Posted by: Albert | Mar 30, 2006 1:15:10 PM
