When starting this project, I took the quiz to see how much I knew about technology. I scored a 5, which told me that I'm "somewhat savvy." This made me realize that I didn't know as much as I thought I did about computers.
For this project, I chose the article "California's Velcro Crop under Challenge."
Meta-Web Info
Initially, I did not recognize the domain name, and the extension is a .com, referring to a company. Since it is an article written by one man, it is a personal page. There were no embedded links on this site. To do further research, I used the search engines altavista.com, excite.com and infoseek.com. On all three search engines, my specific site was the first one to be listed in the search results. There were also articles written by other people about the issue and discussion forums. Altavisa.com said it found 44.4 million results. I didn't see results on the other two sites. I also noticed that excite.com pulled from Google, Yahoo and Bing, arguably the three most common, popular search engines. Also, infoseek.com is powered by Yahoo.com. Each site had the exact same findings on the first page. Surprisingly, there were no ads on the sides of the search engines. I know that there usually are, and they are typically ads that will attract you personally. There are tracking devices on computers that follow the sites you visit on the computer, and then there will be similar ads on search sites to try to pull you in to buy something. The company that places the ad usually gets paid per click.
Author
After typing the domain name into easywhois.com, I noticed that the page I visited wasn't registered. This doesn't show too much credibility to the website. However, just by reading the article, we know that it was written by a man named Ken Umbach.
Purpose
The purpose of this website is to educate people on California's Velcro Crop and why it's under challenge. According to archive.org, the website has been crawled 159 times since April 18, 2001. There is not much evidence for credibility of the site. As mentioned before, it was not registered on easywhois.com and we only know that the article was written by Ken Umbach back in 1993. This is an informational piece that tells people the background, issues, status and recommendations of the California Velcro Crop.
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