Using web browsers

What is the title and URL of the web page you are defaulted to?
The title is Google. The URL is google.com/webhp?tab=rw.
This appeared because it was programmed to do so.
Can you change the appearance of web pages within your browser? If so, how? Why would you want to?
To an extent. Chrome has accessibility options, and while they are limited, they are there. They can be helpful for those who are poor of vision.
What's the default search engine associated with your web browser?
Google

Searching the web

In the search box, type inlearning to make web pagesand click on the "Search" button. How many matches did you get?
Visit a couple of the sites in the search results list. Can you estimate how many of the searches actually relate to learning to make web pages?
b. Return to the front page of Google. In the search box, type in"learning to make web pages"(with quotation marks) and click on the "Search" button. How many matches did you get?
Link to a couple of the sites in the search results list. Can you estimate how many of the searches actually relate to learning to make web pages?
I was given over 8.8 billion results. Of the top five results, four of them seem relevant. When quotations were used, all five were relevant.
On Bing, for the first search, four of the five were relevant. For the second, technically none of them were relevant - they were all website design tools like Wix.
Yahoo gave more tools to do the work for you.
Each search on Duck Duck Go yielded three usable results.
The first search on Kartoo yielded four usable results. The second yielded three.

What is the main difference between a metasite and a regular search site?
I have no idea. The results seem very similar.
Do a search for learning to make web pages. How many matches did you get? How are the matches organized?
At least ten pages worth. I have no idea how they were organized. Many were tagged as advertisements.
Visit a couple of the sites in the search results list. Can you estimate how many of the searches are actually relevant?
At least a handful seem relevant.

Either head to one of the search sites we've already used or head to one we haven't yet and explore the front page of the site.
Is there a way to search specifically for multimedia?
Yes
If yes, what specific elements can you search for? What are your options?
Images
Do a search for a specific media item. How many matches do you get?
More than I can count. No number is given.
Are there any warnings, disclaimers, or other information provided about using the results of your searches embedded in the interface?
No
Visit the creativee commons site. What is creative commons? Why might you want to use this search engine for images and other media?
Creative commons refers to items not restricted by copyright. This helps find material not restricted by copyright.

Now that you have explored the world of search engines, reflect on the experience. What have you learned that might influence the choices you make as a web designer?
Creative commons is good for finding copyright free materials. Google often has the most relative results, but not by a wide margin. I don't understand metasearch.