Friday, January 22, 2010

Searching # 76: Sound Effects

Excercise 1. http://www.gatorland.com/sounds/beargrowl.wav
bear growls
61k, mono, 8-bit, 8000 Hz, 7.8 seconds

http://hootytuts.com/MusicDLs/Hw3/growl.wav
dog growl
51k, mono, 8-bit, 11025 Hz, 4.7 seconds

http://www.ndrr.com/rmr_faq/Sounds/lion_roar.wav
lion

Thursday, January 14, 2010

# 75 Google and Beyond

Exercise One: I ended up with 2 Bings and 1 Google. I might try to explore Bing in the future.
Exercise Two: The week I searched on Hitwise Google was #1. It was almost 75% usage compared to Yahoo with 10% usage. The usage statistics match my own personal choice of a favorite because before this I strictly used Google as my search engine. I may try Bing now just to see if it is any good.
Exercise Three: Google has added ways to keep track of your personal life with various connections to other websites, calendars and for example our schedules.