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Ottawa, Canada
(10:18) Query AltaVista -> max beerbohm "max beerbohm" caricaturist
Top-10 seemed to point to caricatures rather than text info, specified
query to be
max beerbohm "max beerbohm" caricaturist caricature biography
(10:24): http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html lists that
Beerbohm died "May 20 1956 in Rapallo, Italy)". Assume that's where he
lived at the end of his life.
Extend AltaVista query with -> rapallo portofino
Find HotWired's Rough Guide page on the Italian Riviera di Levante
region, this confirms that Beerbohm lived in Rapallo and that's close to
Portofino.
(10:31): AltaVista query: -> riviera di levante portofino rapallo
After first results, restrict search to "English" documents :-(
(10:34)
http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html
seems to list only ferries that go the wrong way
(10:38) return to AltaVista results for further browsing. No good
results.
(10:48) turn to Yahoo to browse/search with -> italy tourism genova
or -> italy tourism portofino. No good results. Decide to abandon this
rather frustrating search for now. (10:55)
Place: Dublin, Ireland
Date: June 11th 1998
Time: 3:00pm (local time)
Started search using Fusion
Query: "Max Beerbohm" caricaturist
Clicked on #2 "Max Beerbohm"
Short bio page, does not state where he lived at the end of his life.
Clicked on #7 "Brittannica Search: Beerbohm, Sir Max"
Unable to read documents (subscription needed). Gave up.
Place: Aberdeen, Scotland
Date: 12. June 1998
Time: 2:30PM (local time)
searched through yahoo for Max Beerbohm.
this turned up too many sites.
gave up.
Iowa City, Iowa, USA
8 hours for 10 queries over 2 afternoons
o For this query I'm adding the word Italy because I know that
Portofino a town close to Genova.
o Submit to Altavista the query: +Italy +Beerbohm +Max Portofino
o The query retrieves a bunch of pages about art or book
collections. The second hit has Max Beerbohm as title and seem to
be his biography.(http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html)
o Click on the second link. It is a biography of Max Beerbohm and it
says that he died in Rapallo, Italy.
o I also checked two other links. They also mention that he lived in
Rapallo (except for the WWI years).
o Conduct a new search with the query: +Beerbohm +Max +Rapallo house
museum
o This search returns 10 hits.
o I did look for the Beerbohm's house in all these hits, but I
didn't find that information, except for a page
(http://www.scotsman.com/festival/annalog/fsm01jak970825.3.html)
that has a strange story and part of the story says:
"The girl came from Rapallo, which I told her was where Max
Beerbohm lived for 40 years and asked if he was remembered.
Of course he is. "The English milord. His house is still
pointed out," she said, "to tourists." I can almost believe
this. "
o To address the second part of the question, I submitted the query:
+rapallo +portofino +ferry
o The first entry seems to be relevant.
(http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html).
o This page has the departure times from Rapallo but there is no
information of the time the ferry arrives from Portofino.
o The 10th hit is the time table for ferries Regional connections.
Click on this reference
(http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/),
from here you click on the only pointer and get the ferries time
table
http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm.
o From Monday to Friday you have to take the 4:00 p.m. ferry at
Portofino that arrives to Rapallo at 4:30 p.m.
Note about this search: When I was reconstructing the search to write
this steps I found that I had used non capitals. I check that
submitting the query "+Rapallo +Portofino +ferry" doesn't retrieve the
same set of references. In fact, the page that is the most relevant,
since is the only one that has the answer, is not retrieved when
capitalized names are used.
Tokyo, Japan
June 12nd, 1998 Local time
By default, search on Altavista
1:30 PM
Query : "max beerbohm" house information
-> 1 minute
clicked on 14 :
14. Max Beerbohm
[URL:
physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html]
information : dead May 20 1956 in Rapallo,
Italy
Query : Rapallo Italy ferry time
-> 1 minute
clicked on 1 :
1. Ferry Timetables - Rapallo/S.Fruttuoso
[URL:
www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm]
Result : arrive : 04:30 pm
Using a custom front-end tool AltaGCL
Waterloo, 15 June 17:05
altagcl "max beerbohm" and "died" ... too much junk
altagcl beebohm lived ferry portofino ... got the name rapallo
altagcl rapallo portofino ferry schedule ... no luck
altagcl rapallo protofino ferry .. Bingo!
http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm
Total time: 9 minutes
Waterloo, Canada
Using a custom front-end tool AltaGCL
June 15, 11:28am
query: "max beerbohm"
query: "max beerbohm" and died
info: We know that he died in 1956, let's try to use that.
query: "max beerbohm" and "1956"
query: "max beerboh" and "1956" and "died"
This is too general and vague. Let's use the fact that Portofino
is in Italy to maybe do better.
query: "max beerbohm" and "caricat*" and "italy"
info: He died in rapallo, italy
query: "ferry" and "portofino" and "rapallo"
answer:
http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm
which gives us two answers, either 12:30am or 4:30pm
time: 20 minutes
At a university in Glasgow, Scotland
I needed to know who this guy was and were he died so:
search Altavista with MaxBeerbohm, found :
http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html saying that the place he
died was Rapallo, Italy
from the Encyclopedia Britanica, Micropedia 1988 edition Beerbohm, Sir Max
article.
search yahoo with "traghetti Portofino" (traghetti is ferries in Italian)
http://www.fromitaly.it/italiano/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm
Answer:
the last ferry during winter time will get to Rapallo at: 16.30
during summer time the timetable is the same as for Sundays so the last
ferry will take you there by: 17.30
Australia
Using a query re-formulation tool, the Hyperindex Browser (HiB)
o HiB + AltaVista - all failed
o "portofino"
o "portofino ferries" as refinement
o "beerbohm" -> "max beerbohn"
eventually I find that there may be a link between Rapallo
and Beerbohn after much looking around through document
summaries and the ferries and hotels and tourist sites for
Portofino
o "rapallo", beam down and change query to "title:rapallo and
beerbohn", then change it to "rapallo and beerbohn"
last title is " HotWired: Rough Guide - Italy" which sends
us to
http://www.hotwired.com/rough/europe/italy/regions/riviera.levante.html
where we finally find that, yes, Rapallo *is* the place he
lived. The question is ambiguous though: the first part makes
me think I am after a house name, the second part makes it
look like only the town name is required... I looked a bit
but cannot find a house name or address except that "it is
still pointed out to tourists":
http://www.scotsman.com/festival/annalog/fsm01jak970825.3.html
Place : Nacsis. Tokyo Japan
Date : June 18, 1998
Time : 4:00PM (Japan Time)
Started search on Netscape Navigator
Query : Max Beerbohm
Clicked on #1 "Max Beerbohm"
Clicked on #3 "Max Beerbohm"
I can't find the address of his last house. Back
Finish Time : 4:30PM
At a university in Toronto, Canada
Metacrawler query: Max Beerbohm house
Nothing looks interesting.
Metacrawler query: Beerbohm Portofino
No results.
Altavista query: "Max Beerbohm"
Clicking on #2: "Max Beerbohm"
(physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html)
A brief biography. No mention of the place he died.
Clicking on #10: "1890s links: Max Beerbohm"
(www.1890s.org/sub/beerbohm.htm)
Another short biography. Nothing useful.
Altavista query: +"Max Beerbohm" +house +died
Nothing looks good.
Altavista query: +"Max Beerbohm" +house
Still nothing. I need a really good biography.
Altavista query: "Max Beerbohm" biography
Clicking on #1: Max Beerbohm: An Overview
(mirrors.org.sg/victorian/decadence/mb/beerbohmov.html)
"Biography" link broken.
Clicking on #21: Tate Gallery WWW: Sir Max Beerbohm
(www.tate.org.uk/coll/cchtm/beerbohm.htm)
Lots of examples of his work. No biography.
Clicking on #6: Max Beerbohm
(physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html)
I visited this site earlier. This time I'll look around more carefully.
Clicking on "Victorian Web" link
(http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/victov.html)
Clicking on "Search the Victorian Web". Searched on "Beerbohm".
Clicking on #4: "Contents Page for Beerbohm's Rossetti and His Circle"
Clicking on "Note [Beerbohm's Introduction]"
At the end of the note:
M. B.
Rapallo, 1922.
Maybe he lived and died at Rapallo.
Altavista query: +Rapallo +Beerbohm
Clicking on #6: "Cartoon Art News, Spring 1998".
(www.atreides.demon.co.uk/docs/C98p3.html)
Searching page for "Rapallo".
While still in his early Thirties, Max retired to Rapallo in Italy,
where he remained, except for the war years, until his death in 1956.
Altavista query: +Rapallo +Portofino +ferry
Clicking on #1: "Italy by the Net: Tigullio - Ferries"
(http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html)
Irritating. It lists times for Rapallo departures, but not for
Portofino departures. According to this page "for the returning
time you must ask to the ticket office, or call (0185)-284670."
At another university in Glasgow, Scotland
Started search on Altavista http://www.altavista.digital.com/ to find out
where Beerbohm lived. Notice I put italy, since I know that Portofino is in
Italy.
Query: Max +Beerbohm house italy
Visited: http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html first document in
the ranking which says that he died in Rapallo, Italy.
Back to Altavista http://www.altavista.digital.com/ to find out the ferry
timetable from Portofino to Rapallo;
Query: +Portofino +Rapallo +ferry weekdays
Visited:
http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html, 1
st document in the list. The information I am looking for is there, but not
clearly (i.e. I am not sure it can be done). I will look for further info.
Visited http://www.traveleurope.net/rivier/aindex.htm, 2nd on the list. The
documents is not good; it only reports info about hotels.
Visted http://www.nautica.it/pazzurre/tigullio/home.htm , 9th in the list.
Not good since it only reports info about travelling with your own boat.
I decide to reformulate the query. I will use the term Liguria, the region
where both Rapallo and Portofino are located. I go to Altavista and
formulate query.
Query: +Liguria +ferry
Visited: http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/
1st document in the list.
Clicked on timetable and, BANG, found required info at:
http://www.fromitaly.it/english/REGION/LIGURIA/UTILITI/TRAGHETT/rapafrut.htm
Elsewhere in Ottawa, Canada, using AltaVista ...
ANSWER: Rapallo 9:30pm in the summers
Queries: 7
Links: 23
Time: 8 minutes
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Query: beerbohm caricat* ferry Portofino english "Max Beerbohm"
Followed: http://193.123.31.80/oxford/beerbohm.html
Only his life at oxford.
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Query: house born first +beerbohm caricat* ferry Portofino english "Max Beerbohm"
Followed: http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html
Followed: http://mirrors.org.sg/victorian/decadence/mb/art.html
Died in Rapallo, Italy
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Query: +ferry Portofino
Where can I go by Ferry from Portofino?
Rapallo, S. Margherita, San Fruttuoso
Last ferry: 9:30, 9:45
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Query: +beerbohm Rapallo Margherita Fruttuoso
Followed: http://www.hotwired.com/rough/europe/italy/regions/riviera.levante.html
Lived in Rapallo
France
[I am confused by the question, it seems that these are two questions
in one. Anyway, I am looking for a place and then for a ferry
connection to this place.]
Metacrawler: [full question text]
--> NO results
Metacrawler: house Max Beerbohm English caricaturist life
--> 5 results.
On first view nothing seems promising.
I need to find out some biograghy info about Max:
Metacrawler: Max Beerbohm biograghy
--> 22 results.
--> 7th http://www.biography.com/biogr...y/find/biography-index-B.html5
Obviously a bibliography server. It even lists Max B., but the link
to detailed info is broken. May there was just an old part of the
server indexed. I try the base: www.biography.com. A server appears
which lets me search for Max Beerbohm. I get a brief summary of his
biography and learn that he has lived most of his life in Rapallo,
Italy. So I try..
Metacrawler: Max Beerbohm Rapallo
--> 5 results.
I find another biography (2nd:
http://physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html ), stating that he died
in Rapallo.
I try to approach him through Rapallo:
I surf through various travel pages of infoseek and yahoo...
I give up.
So the answer to the first part is:
I find his house in RAPALLO, Italy.
Now the ferry:
Metacrawler: rapallo portofino ferry
--> 16 results
--> 1st: Italy by the Net: Tigullio - Ferries
http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html
Voila:
The last ferry arrives at
5:00 pm on week days
9:30 pm from July 5th to August 29th
(30 minutes)
Another Australian searcher...
[10:15am Aus EST]
Try an Altavista power search "Beerbohm,"
RANKED on "Max Beerbohm English caricaturist house home end ferry Portofino"
On page 3 of results:
-=> "30. Max Beerbohm" [from the synopsis, this looks like a bio page]
Nothing.
-=> "28. Max Beerbohm"
Ah-ha: died in Rapallo, Italy.
Try an Altavista power search "Rafallo and Portofino", RANKED on "ferry"
Try an Altavista power search "Rapallo and Portofino", RANKED on "ferry"
-=> "4. Italy by the Net: Tigullio - Ferries"
Damn. Rapallo->Portofino times only.
-=> 1. "EXPRESS 97 -- Travel Information"
Nothing.
Try an Excite Power search
-=> "More like this" for "Liguria - Ferry Timetables - Regional connections"
-=> "Liguria - Ferry Timetables - Regional connections"
-=> "RAPALLO/S.MARGHERITA/PORTOFINO/S.FRUTTUOSO"
Got it. 4:30pm on a Saturday, 5:30pm on a Sunday.
[10:25am Aus EST]
Saarbrucken, Germany
22 June 1998, 19:20-21:20 p.m.
Alta Vista: I want to find the house Max Beerbohm, the English
caricaturist, lived in at the end of his life. If I take
the last ferry on a weekday from Portofino, at what time
does the ferry arrive at the town I'm trying to get to?
-first result: physics.bu.edu/~leao/AFL/beerbohm.html (Max Beerbohm)
does not contain therequired information
Alta Vista: I want to find the +house +"Max Beerbohm" , the English
caricaturist, lived in at the end of his life. If I take
the last +ferry on a weekday from +Portofino, at what
time does the ferry arrive at the town I'm trying to get
to? +timetable
- no results
Alta Vista: I want to find the +house +"Max Beerbohm" , the English
caricaturist, lived in at the end of his life. If I take the last
+ferry on a weekday from +Portofino, at what
time does the ferry arrive at the town I'm trying to get to?
- one result: http://home.venere.it/liguria/genova/splendido/spfocus.html
(Hotel Splendido) does not contain required information
Alta Vista: I want to find the house +"Max Beerbohm" , the English
caricaturist, lived in at the end of his life. If I take
the last +ferry on a weekday from +Portofino, at what time
does the ferry arrive at the town I'm trying to get to?
- two results, first result is
http://www.hotwired.com/rough/europe/italy/regions/riviera.levante.html
(HotWired rough guide Italy)
Altavista: Portofino Rapallo ferry
- third result:
http://www.hyperborea.com/ibn/guide/liguria/tigullio/uk-ferries-tigullio.html
(Italy by the Net: Tigullio - Ferries)
- follow the link "Rapallo, S.Margherita, Portofino (night trip)"
contains only ferries in the opposite direction
- back up and follow the link "Rapallo, S.Margherita, Portofino
and San Fruttuoso" contains only ferries in the opposite
direction, but some vague information how the ferries get back
from Portofino to Rapallo
- I conclude that the night ferry which arrives at 8:45 in
Portofino goes back to Rapallo, and arrives in Rapallo before
9:30; it's even conceivable that the night ferry which arrives
in Portofino at 10 pm goes back to Rapallo and arrives there
before 10:45. I don't look for further pages to verify this
conclusion
