Thursday, November 29, 2007 - the 3 Search Engines :

Neeew this wik, thees weak's post wil b posted wiwth spealling mistooks.

Now that sentence took 5 minutes to type out. Partly because i was bored with work..

This week, we swapped the order of the practical worksheets, so as to aid us in doing our Assignment 1. We went ahead to practical 4&5 which was to fill up a lenghtly worksheet, which will then serve as a reference for our assignment 1.

So apart from the change in the order of the practical worksheets, this week's lecture notes talks about the different purpose of internet resources, and there are a whole list of it. Most of this are pretty common sense, such as News, Entertainment, Business/Marketing. Whereas there a few which are interesting like Advocacy, Information and Personal. Advocacy is more like an education site, that is trying to convice you to believe in that particular subject.

In the lab, i learned the differences between the 3 search facility available. Previously, i only know of the standard search engine, used to search for information blindly on that search engine. However, now i learned that there are such things called Meta Search Engines which saves alot of times as it search many different search engine at 1 go, retrieving information from many places. Also when researching on topics related to the industry or a company, using Directories is a great help as the sites there are all chosen by professionals. So anyway, the 3 search facilities are Directories, Search Engine, Meta Search Engine, and each of them has their own benefits.

If only i learnt about the 3 different search facilities earlier, then i wouldn't have a hell of a time searching for information for a previous assignment.......

Fats RANTS 6:08 PM