Hello people!!

Sorry for the slow update. Today lesson is about meta search engine and subject directory. Let me explain what is a meta search engine.

Google, Yahoo, Bing are search engine but they are from different company. If you want to find "sunny" for example they would give mostly different results. Sometimes it is really annoying to research your projects using three different type of search engine. This is where meta search engine come in use. One example is Mamma

After you type "sunny" in the search box, you will find that the results are the results from the different search engine. Thus this save our time looking in three different search engine which could take us one day?

Subject directory to me is a more simple search engine. Normally in goggle, they would give you the direct link like www.(*&*(*.com/789789798/213213.But subject directory is different. You will find that the URL they give us is www.^%^&%&.com

Print Screen about my research using mamma and Yahoo directory


Friday is the submission of the portfolio and it contains 30%. I hope I can score well in this.

My Second Blog Reflection.

1) What benefits do you get when using different search facilities to search for resources related to your topic?

People thought that using one search engine is enough for their research but I think that using one search facility for a research is not enough. I prefer researching using different type of search facilities because it provides a wider variety of information, further aiding me to do this research effectively. Different search facilities have different features and I could make use of each feature to enhance my research.

Goggle could help you search the Web, Usenet, and images thus allows me to go to a wider range of variety of websites be it personal and organizational websites. Scholar allows me to find articles from 1991 to current year and search articles written by a specific reporter that is specialized about gambling. Meta Search Engine allows more of the web to be searched at once than any one stand-alone search engine. Subject Directory are categorized by topics into subcategories which will narrow your search, thus you would find your materials effectively. I think we should make use of all the search facilities instead of one.

2)What do you like best about collaborating on Wiki with other students who share similar research topic as you?

I like the way how wiki allow student to add/edit information in the wiki. This is quite similiar to forum. The difference is that other people could edit your information if they think it is wrong. Other than editing other's people works, wiki allows me to see what the student had done so far and i could learn from them. The only things i don't like about wiki is that some information may not be true because someone could just edit/add what they heard which can be not true.


So far i think EIR has really help me alot and I think for the next following projects, I would be more effective in time management because i would waste 1 day researching information that is not relevant to me.

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