Name
- Nur Azizul Hakim
Polytechnic
- Temasek Poly
School
- IIT, Course - GET
Japanese
animes, Japanese
mangas,
Japanese girls, J-pop,
Drawing, Games.
Day 3 - Reflection
2:29 PM
Monday, March 10, 2008
Today I learned about the different types of Internet search facilites. They are Search engines, Meta search engines, Subject directories, and Databases. However, the lesson did not touch on much about databases.
For practical, we had to find 3 resources using 3 different search facilities which are Search engines, Meta search engines, and Subject directories. What I use are :
1) Search engine : Google
2) Meta search engine : Metacrawler
3)Subject directorie : Yahoo Directory
Comparing the 3 search facilities, When I find resources for my research topic, I found out that :
Search engines shows the most number of search results(14,700,000 hits) and the percentage of relevance is high.
Meta search engines shows the least amount of search results(78 hits) but i was able to find one site which contains information relevant to my topic.
Subject directories (100 hits) on the other hand did not have any search results that is of any relevance to my research topic.
Based on the above comparison, Google search engine has best meet my searching needs. It has the most number of hits and i found 3 site which are relevant to my research topic. My topic is the 'impact of blogging on businesses'. I'm not fond of subject directories. Seriously, I can't find a single site that got anything to do with ' business and blogging'. I do found results about 'business' though, but 'business and blogging'? None at all.
