The Google a day feature is like charades, but more oriented towards using Google. The game starts with three vague questions about History, Pop culture, and Science, and you have to use Google to find the answers to these predicaments. The trick is that it takes more than one search to find the answer to the dilemmas. It's actually very fun to follow he trail of bread crumbs that Google leaves for you, one minute you could be looking up a well renown director, and soon enough, you'll be looking famous clowns in the 50's. n the down side, the questions can get very irksome. One very persistent question was, "Under modern classification, what clade do birds belong to?” the correct answer was "diapsid", which unfortunately for us, was not listed in Wikipedia, but overall the Google a Day Feature is definitely worth checking out.
The second thing we learned about that day was,authenticity, reliability and accuracy. Accuracy is how truthful and up to date information is. Authenticity is the genuineness of the information, or if it is what it seems to be. Reliability is how dependable the information is. To test these three essential words, we used it on a website, a website dedicated to the endangered species, the "Pacific Northwest tree octopus". On outside, the website actually makes the "Pacific Northwest tree octopus" sound real, but we must use to three big words to find out the trust worthiness of this site. The Site first fails with, Accuracy, because it mentions, that the Sasquatch preys on the creature. The website also fails on authenticity, because when consulting other websites, there is no such thing as a "Pacific Northwest tree octopus. The Website also fails its last test reliability, which was really obvious because since when was yeti a language? Everyone knows that yeti is just a Sasquatch dialect.
Overall this was a very fun way to kick off this year.
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