Opinion on the search engine topics

So, someone has to be the first one to react. I took a look at the Youtube movies and I just want to say that it's clear that the one with the Google guy is the most interesting. After that I logged in to Google to look at the 3rd link, the one to create an own Google-based search engine. I think it's a pretty cool feature, but I don't really need it (now). Maybe we can discuss about the purposes of this later.
About html: in highschool I learnt to build a website in html code, so I am familiar with the use of it, not with the technical mechanisms behind it. So that could be an interesting topic too.

search engines

Ok, please before diving into the lectures of Berkeley University
read first this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_search_engine

Then watch this (all the lectures please, btw the guy you see on the first video is one of the two who build Google):
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=1777A89066B1D71D


And as a little bonus, explore this link (you may need Google account, if you don't, then search for "personal search engine Google"):
http://www.google.com/coop/manage/cse/create/1


I will provide other stuff

Readings and some tasks for the 3rd class

I am sending links to the video we used in the previous lesson
Warriors of the net 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruw4jHJ53FY
Warriors of the net 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxweOmLBQ5w
I would like to invite you to think about the ways how to work around the censorship (in China, Saudi Arabia and others) based on understanding you already have. Some terms might help, if you don't understand them, their definitions can be found elsewhere:
- packets
- routers
- firewalls
- Internet as the network of networks

So, how China actually does the filtering?

In the upcoming class, we still stay on the technical side, talking about
- IP addresses
- DNS, domains and registration

Please find and study the wikipeadi entries for those things:
IP address
ipv4, ipv6 (don't go into details if it does not interest you, but please scan it at least)

Read this fairly informative tutorial on DNS:
http://www2.rad.com/networks/2002/dns/index.htm


I would also like to ask you to reread the article by Vannevar Bush (you'll find the link in the 1st lesson's page) and try to find out the predictions that happened, what became reality (now).

Please, think until the next meeting whether you want to know more details about HTML language (this class will never be so extensive to teach somebody to write HTML pages, but we can stay with that topic longer, covering details and differences of (x)HTML and XML, SGML - all of them are often [and perhaps too much] mentioned by various people, some of whom cannot tell the tag from page heading elements) We can skip the topic mentioning only the most important parts, or we may dedicate one lesson or two to it.