You are now going to do a search using
altavista.com
Altavista
uses signs such as “”, + - * to
refine your search. Altavista Search Rules
Key in the
URL http://www.altavista.com/
Once you are
in altavista, change the language in the dropdown menu on the right-hand side of your
screen to English.
It is sunny
Saturday morning and you have arranged to go surfing at Noosa. However, you want to see
what the surf is like first.
Our first
search will be on surfing in Australia on the Sunshine Coast, specifically at Noosa.
If we key in
surfing, we will get approximately 1 934 083
sites.
If we key in
Australia, we will get approximately 11 885
930 sites.
If we key in
Sunshine Coast, we will get approximately 76
169 sites.
If we key in
surfing in Australia on the Sunshine Coast Noosa,
we are asking the search engine to find everything it can about surfing in general,
Australia in general, sunshine in general, coasts in general, beaches in general. Such as search request will give you
approximately 39 330 sites and that can be a bit waste of time.
Therefore,
we will try to narrow it down. Our aim is to
reduce it to under 120 sites. More sites does not mean more efficiency in searching. The aim is to
narrow it to relevant sites only.
We might try the following search request:
+“Australia”
+“Noosa” +”Sunshine Coast” +”surfing”
We have
narrowed it down to 379 web sites.
Now we might
try:
+”Australia”
+ “Sunshine Coast” +”Noosa surfing”
We have 3
sites. The first site might be:
When we visit this site, we find a link
to Aussie Surfing Sites
and we elect to click on the Sunshine Coast Surf Report which redirects us to another link
in which there is a surf cam.
http://www.coastalwatch.com/cam.asp?cam=500
We then choose Australia, Noosa
Heads, and wait for the live robotic video to activate so that we can have an on-the-spot
viewing of the surf at Noosa Heads. To the
right of the live videocam, there is the current surf report.
The right-hand side of your screen
looks like this – full of information and further links:
Sunshine Coast QLD
Saturday, 5 August 2000
3ft+ ESE swell.
Winds are again a moderate SSW early and tide is low. The waves are average. Pick of the
lot again is Moffats-Dickies at Cal, Alex, Southern end of Coolum. Few tidy waves outside
bays Noosa.
Moderate SSW winds early, 20 SE later in the day. Water 18°C / 64°F
Noosa Heads
Tidal Chart
Live weather stations in Sunshine Coast QLD
