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1. Help! I want to find out what a particular new phrase I just heard means. What exactly can be found in this "Urban Dictionary" I have stumbled across?
2. Help! I want to know if a particular urban legend is true, false or unverifiable. Which website, founded in 1995, could I visit to help give me the answer?
3. Help! I think my computer has been infected by malware. Which of these is most likely to be of direct help if I am confident that I can remove it with the right advice?
4. What will the "Way Back Machine" help me to do online?
5. At the start of 2013, the last provider of free (legal) anti-virus software online discontinued their product.
6. Help! Can you tell me which of the following search engines has been helping people find things online for the longest? (i.e. which came first of the four?)
7. Help! What kind of information could I get from the websites "Rotten Tomatoes" and "IMDb"?
8. Help! There are so many web pages. If I was searching the web in July 2013, was there any way of getting a scientifically-based estimate of how many pages there are?
9. Help! I really want to go to a website that tells me in one place all about how things work. Which site, founded by Marshall Brain in 1998, would give me what I am looking for?
10. Help! I'd love to check out the news across the world, and of course there are many websites allowing me to do that. What move have some of the large media outlets made, which started in late 2010, that is likely to have a large impact on our access to online news?
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