1. Forms Page (11 points):
   You needed to include (at least):
   • text box (1 point)
   • text area box (1 point)
   • select box (1 point)
   • checkboxes (1 point)
   • radio buttons (1 point)
   • send button (1 point)
   • reset button (1 point)
   plus the form page needed to validate strict xhtml (4 points).
2. cgiemail (2 points):
   The form needed to work using cgiemail.
3. Comments/Guestbook Page (2 points)- There should be a commments page that you link to from your forms page that displayed the comments received from your form (it was okay to make these up...) and it needed to validate strict (otherwise 0 points). These comments are manually added to the comments page by you when you receive them via email (there are programs that automatically update Web pages but that is beyond the scope of this course...).
4. Email sent to Dan about Search Tools (13 points)
   1. Search for your name using 2 different White Pages and 2 search engines (2 points) - You should have described your results by indicating the name of the search tool and how many hits were returned.
   2. Information summary about 3 different search engines:
      • Name of each search engine and its url (1.5 points - .5 points for each)
      • Summary of how to pose an effective search with each of the 3 search engines (1.5 points)
      • Syntax you used to find info about your favorite musician/band or team/athlete (1.5 points)
      • Number of hits returned for each of the 3 search engines (1.5 points)
   3. Some of the reasons that submitting the exact same query to different search engines yields a different list of matches: (1 point)

      • Different search engines have different databases of indexed Web pages.
      • Different search engines may use different query semantics (such as ORing keywords instead of ANDing keywords together).
      • Different search engines calculate relevancy scores differently.
      • Different search engines may use full text indexing while others do not.

   4. Which search engine you prefer and why from part b (1 point)
   5. Metasearch engine information
      • Number of hits returned and name of metasearch engine (1 point)
      • Was metasearch engine more effective than search engines above? (1 point)
   6. How a metasearch engine is different from a regular search engine in terms of how it works: (1 point)
      

      A regular search engine has a database of information about the Web that it maintains and updates as well as programs that search the database for information to match your query and assign relevancy scores. A metasearch engine just sends your query to a number of other regular search engines and has them do the work. The metasearch engine then organizes the results in some way (e.g., throw away duplicate matches or group matches by the search engine that returned them).

Any problem with this assignment? E-mail dpl25@cisunix.unh.edu (Danni) if the problem is with parts I, II, or III; email der29@cisunix.unh.edu (Dan) if the problem is with part IV.

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