Important instructions: please answer all questions fully and including the technical terms that we studied. Provide detailed explanations for each question.
- A student at school is loading a web site at one of the computers in the lab. From the moment they type the URL until the page gets loaded on the computer, describe in detail, using technical terms, how the information flows from the workstation in the lab, through the school network towards the server and back.
- 2) Explain, using all technical terms that are relevant, how a search engine can perform a search. How does it know which sites best match the search query? What technically makes a search engine better than the others?
- 3) An Argentine rugby web site hires you to make sure that whenever people are searching for information on rugby in the country their site appears at the top of the search. How would you do that? Give details using technical terms.
- 4) What are the privacy risks faced by users when searching and using the Internet in general? Give examples.
- 5) Can somebody jokingly or with bad intentions create a web site to damage your reputation? How would that be done?
- 6) Write some ideas about the future of search engines? What type of search engines can we expect for the future?
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