Open two browser windows, one to do the web searching and the other logged in to your blog with a new entry open. Type the answers to the questions below into a blog entry with the subject line Rugby Retrieval. Make sure that Text Formatting on your blog entry screen is set to Textile.

We want to find some photos of the dynamic New Zealand rugby winger, Joe Rokocoko.

Browse to the BBC site, in the "Search the Web" box, type in rokocoko and click BBC News radio button, then Search.

1. How many results do you find?

Click on Results from all of the BBC tab:

2. Now how many results?

But I was sure that the photos were somewhere on the BBC site!
Now go to the BBC sports page and search for rokocoko there:

3. How much effort did it take you to find the Search box, ie did you have look hard for it or was it intuitively obvious?

4. Now how many results did you get?

Note that the results are ordered in "relevance" (what does this mean?) and by date UK style (day/month/year)!

5. Open the first story, "An Extraordinary Joe", download the graphic (like we did on Monday) and save the web address (URL) (which you also know how to do). Now upload the graphic to appear as a popup in the current blog entry. Paste the URL into the blog entry as well.
To make this "clickable" just add the text you want to click on and put it in quotes with a : directly in front of the URL.

So "An Extraordinary Joe":http://bbc.co.uk........

Open up a new tab on Netscape and do search for Joe Rokocoko on Google.

6. How many results do you find now (look carefully at the top of the results page).

7. What google page does the BBC links appear on?

By following some links find out the following information about Joe Rokocoko. Type in your answer and the URL where you got it.

8 a) Where and when was Joe Rokocoko born?
b) What local team and what national team does he play rugby for and in what position?
c) How many tries has he scored in international rugby in how many matches?

Do a search for the phrase Rokocoko proves no ordinary Joe. Wow!

9. How many different sources use this phrase? Makes you wonder ...

Now let's explore Advanced Google search. Click the "Advanced Seach" link, fill in joe rokocoko

10. How would you find all the UK references to Joe (use domain .uk) - give How many results are returned when you do this search?

11. How about New Zealand ? (use domain .nz)

Now set all the advanced stuff back to default and type in Joe Rokocoko as the search.
Click on the Directory tab

12. How many results? Highlight one of the Categories, copy it and paste into the blog entry. Can you find out which country is hosting this year's rugby world cup?

click on the News tab

13. How many results? What are the different countries featured on the first page of results?

14. What is the qualitative difference between results from "Web", "Images", "Directory" and "News" tabs? That is, what sort of web sites do they bring up?

We're going to try to find out what the game of Rugby Union is about.

We are going to look at Academic Search Elite which is accessible from Earlham Library home page.
From Library home page, select Find Articles —> In Databases : General and Reference : Academic Search Elite.

Find rugby union
In Refine Search select Earlham College and Full Text

15. How many results are found? Do the titles of any of these give you an idea of how to play the game?

Click the forward arrow to go to page 2. Open the article "Scrum as you are ..."

16. What is the topic of this article?

Let's go look in Brittanica.
From Library home page, select Find Articles —> In Databases : General and Reference : Encyclopædia Britannica

Type in rugby union and Go.

17. Make a screenshot of the results window (not the full screen) and upload it into your blog as a popup graphic.
(notice that the Video & Media refer to Labor Unions.