At this point the thing that most interests me in new comm tech would have to be the week 3 lecture where it was explained that in world war 2 they created a mathmatics based computer to break secret German 'enigma' codes yet after they broke those codes they were still powerless to stop what was to come. therefore this will most likely be the topic of my essay. if not that then just the general evolution of the computer.Random questions using search engines other than google:1. What is the weight of the world's biggest pumpkin?According to Cucurbits, the official journal of the World Pumpkin Confederation, a 1993 record-breaking pumpkin weighed in at 836 pounds.http://www.ask.com/web?q=what+is+the+weight+of+the+worlds+biggest+pumpkin&qsrc=0&o=0&l=dir2. 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Why do all phone numbers in Hollywood films start with '555'?It began 30 years ago when the use of exchange names as part of the telephone number was still popular in the USA. Dials had letters as well as numbers and the first 3 letters of the exchange name were dialled followed by numbers. An example might be CENtral 78978. You dialled CEN 78978 or, using all numbers, 236 78978. It so happened that 5 on the dial corresponded with J K and L and you can’t make any English place names using any combination of J, K and L as the first 3 letters. So the 555 code was allocated to service levels such as Directory Assistance, Operator, Repair Service, etc. Due to the "low fill" of the 555 code, Hollywood was encouraged to quote 555 numbers in their productions to prevent real subscribers being harassed by members of the public trying out the numbers quoted on the screen.http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+do+all+hollywood+numbers+start+with+555&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir8. What is the cheapest form of travel from Crete to Rhodes?Flight = $229.14 Expediahttp://www.ask.com/web?q=what+is+the+cheapest+form+of+travel+from+crete+to+rhodes&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir9. What song was top of the Australian Pop Charts this week in 1965?Do the Clam by Elvis Preseley (although I'm not certain about that, the website it really difficult to understand.)http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+do+all+hollywood+numbers+start+with+555&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dir10. Which Brisbane band includes Stephen Stockwell on keyboards and vocals?Black Assassins.http://www.ask.com/web?q=why+do+all+hollywood+numbers+start+with+555&qsrc=1&o=0&l=dirsearch enginesInternet search engines (eg Google, AltaVista) help users find web pages on a given subject. The search engines maintain databases of web sites and use programs to collect information, which is then indexed by the search engine. Similar services are provided by "directories," which maintain ordered lists of websites, eg Yahoo!how are results ranked on ur search engine?One of the the main rules in a ranking algorithm involves the location and frequency of keywords on a web page. Call it the location/frequency method, for short.Pages with the search terms appearing in the HTML title tag are often assumed to be more relevant than others to the topic.Search engines will also check to see if the search keywords appear near the top of a web page, such as in the headline or in the first few paragraphs of text. They assume that any page relevant to the topic will mention those words right from the beginning.i personally use google and ask jeeves if i need to search something. i actually dont have a reason why i use google over the others i think it has something to do with the fact that it is my homepage and someone once told me it has less virus's. i still dont know whether that is true or not.a recent news article i found stated - comScore, a leader in digital media measurement, today released its monthly qSearch analysis of activity across competitive search engines. In February 2007, Google Sites captured 48.1 percent of the U.S. search market, gaining 0.6 share points from the previous month. Yahoo! Sites maintained its second place ranking with 28.1 percent of U.S. searches, followed by Microsoft Sites (10.5 percent), Ask Network (5.0 percent) and Time Warner Network (4.9 percent).(ComScore releases, 15/3/07, URL:http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20070321/CGW03821032007-1.html)