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Poe further describes web directories as man-made guides to the internet, which create portals that provide everything from e-mail to entertainment, to ensure stronger understanding of the Web. Poe defines the top-down system through describing the process in which Yahoo’s cofounder, Jerry Yang set up his universal directory—which was through setting up a system of categories followed by classifying the websites accordingly. While this system solved the current web chaos, as shown by Poe through stating, “Web surfers flocked to the site because no one could find anything on the web in the early 1990’s” (Poe 351), it was not the best system. Poe describes Yahoo as hierarchal as he introduces a second more, democratic approach— “Web rings”. A web ring is a set of related websites linked together, creating easier access for surfing the web, which began on the premise that it’s “good to share”. The mentioning of web rings acts as a threshold to Poe’s ideas on information sharing and the power the people have upon doing

In conclusion, there are 3 elements that should be thought of when analyzing propaganda. Diction to show how the persuade with words and language.Imagery and color to catch the eyes of citizens when they are out and looking. Also parallelism to show what is needed and what is important to the government. Propaganda is a big part of the world today to persuade and convince, these elements are

For this assignment, I was allowed to improvise on a provided base code to develop a functioning web crawler. The web crawler needed to accept a starting URL and then develop a URL frontier queue of “out links” to be further explored. The crawler needed to track the number of URLs and stop adding them once the queue had reached 500 links. The crawler needed to also extract text and remove HTML tags and formatting. The assignment instructions offered using the BeautifulSoup module to achieve those goals, which I chose to do. Finally, the web crawler program needed to report metrics including the number of documents (web pages), the number of tokens extracted and processed, and the number of unique terms added to the term dictionary.

PageRank is an algorithm developed by Sergey Brin and Lawrence Page which uses subset of network analysis to understand associations between nodes in a linked database. The algorithm uses multitude of parameters to assign PageRank to various pages and is the backbone to Google search functionality. Rank assigned to a webpage is calculated based on the ranks of the webpage citing it.

Q3: Based on your understanding of search tools used for locating the precise information on Web; answer the following?

Propaganda has many influences as it is designed to meet the goals of a specific agenda. Propaganda is a message that creates enemies by influencing public opinion and manipulating other people's beliefs through mass media. Common propaganda techniques are

When you usually hear the word ‘Propaganda’ negative thoughts may come to your mind. Actually, propaganda is a form of communicating that is aimed at influencing the attitude toward a community. Usually it’s aimed towards some cause or position presenting only one side of an argument. It is also normally used and introduced in many various ways. Propaganda uses techniques and any means to persuade someone towards a certain way of thinking. It can be found in writing, music, and movies. The primary goal is to get their opinion warranted and capture the interest of the audience.

Propaganda is the spreading of ideas, information, or allegations to support or harm a cause. It is represented in a way to provoke a desired response. [Sheridan Libraries] The Nazis, for instance, used propaganda very effectively. You could only read, see, and hear what the Nazis wanted.

The structure of propaganda organization, on its term, deals with the authority which might be responsible for spreading the message, the purpose of the propaganda and what types of media are utilized. The latter section is directly interlinked with the authority since it often controls the flow of information (for

The Internet is vast. To the casual user, the Internet represents the collection of those websites accessible via search engines such as Google or Bing. Search engines function by utilization of a web crawler which locates and indexes linked pages that are then provided as search results when it meets a particular search’s criteria. But, those web crawlers are only able to identify static pages, leaving out the dynamic pages of the deep web. Imagine a commercial fishing trawler on the open ocean pulling in its catch. The trawler only gathers fish from just barely below the surface and misses the massive

Propaganda is used in controversial matters, but it is also used to promote things that are generally acceptable. For both those purposes propaganda can be expressed in different forms such as, exhibits, drawings, goal-pictures, graphs, parades, songs and many more. Propaganda can be found concealed or open, emotional or containing logical appeals to reason, or in combination (Casey,

A severe dilemma associated with the increasing availability of the World Wide Web is the use of the “Dark Web” as a means for criminal activities throughout the world. The “Web” consists of the Surface Web which allows access to popular sites like YouTube and Facebook, the Deep Web, which consist of private databases and libraries filtered out by common search engines like Google, and the Dark Web which is intentionally hidden for reasons of anonymity; whether for good or bad reasons. There are three main solutions that help fray criminal activities on the Dark Web: the use of specialized government agencies to regulate and police the Dark Web, the fixation of resources to combat more serious criminal activities: and conducting more research of the content and workings of the Dark Web. Further examining the need for more research of the Dark Web will help elaborate why the use of specialized government agencies and the fixation of resources on more serious crimes should not be accepted has valid solutions.

The Dark Web is a term that is referred to specifically as a collection of websites that are publicly visible, but hide the IP addresses (Location) of the servers that run them. Thus they can be visited by any web user, but it is very difficult to work out who is behind and using the sites. And you cannot find these sites using any regular search engines such as google. Almost all sites on the Dark Web hide their identity and IP address using the Tor encryption tool. You can use Tor to hide your identity, and spoof your location. When a website is run through Tor it has much the same effect.

The propaganda model was developed by Edward Herman and Noam Chomsky in 1988. The propaganda model was published in the book of Manufacturing Consent, sought to provide an analytical framework that attempts to explain the behavioral and performance of the mass media in the United States (Herman, 2000). Herman and Chomsky (2002) argued that the propaganda model contains five filters which determine what is ‘news’. The first filter is the size, ownership, and profit orientation of the media, which refers to the cooperation between the mainstream media and the large conglomerate. The second filter is advertising, which refers to the mass media using advertising as the central source of income. The third filter is sourcing, which refers to the mass media dependency of information from the government, business and experts. The fourth filter is “flak”, which refers to the negative response that discipline the media. The fifth filter is anti-communism, which refers to the control mechanism of the

As technology has propelled forward in our exploration of knowledge relating to computers and their science it is understandable that there are still areas of this field which may yet remain unexplored. One particular field being the Dark Web, which has been defined as an area of the deep web which has, “been intentionally hidden and is therefore inaccessible through standard [web] browsers.” (Brightplanet.) Although this web has evolved over the course of many years, possibly dating back to the 1990s and the development of onion routing, it has advanced itself into an industry which no one could have ever predicted. Further as well delve deeper into this developmental occurrence known as the Dark Web, I feel that we must ask ourselves how this has evolved into what we know it as today and whether or not it represents our future or past in dealing with the internet activities.