Searching tasks

You're going to have to forgive me - I didn't do these tasks. I'm a librarian and I do know how to search. Here's my guess about what you wanted us to establish:

1. that google and other web search engines don't search the deep web, which mainly consists of fee databses which have sophisticated indexing setups.
2. that nevertheless you can become a sophisticated google searcher knowing tricks like putting in defining words (like 'hotel: new york') or using inverted commas to do a phrase search etc.
3. I didn't download Copernicus because I was very wary after reading John and others emails about thier pc's crashing!!
4. strategies I would use to search for 'advanced internet users' would include truncation (eg. use*; advanc*; and maybe *net*); I'd be picking my databses and go to LIS Abs, ABI Inform and OCLC FirstSearch (this is just off the top of my head ;) - and I'd be aware of the different searching functionalities within each database - First Searchm for instance, can be very useful to see how many hits your getting for both keywords and subject searches before you see the results, checking keywords also helps identify possible spelling variations and other keywords that might be useful.

Apologies for not completing these taks - mea culpa and you know how I feel about the time factor :(