Friday, December 4, 2009

ha

This week we had our 1st class test. I didn’t really study much but I get 15/20 haha. Not bad results considered that I didn’t study for this.

After the class test, teacher show us the different type of search engines like directory, Meta search engines and invisible web. Although these search engines narrow down the search result, it doesn’t really help me as some results were irrelevant. The limited results also do not offer me much option. After that, teacher also showed us sample of the previous badge of student’s project.

Friday, November 13, 2009

ads

I was taught how to form effective search query. One of the strategies is to use variations for the keywords. In other words, using synonyms for your keywords. This is useful as information from the web might not include the exact keyword that you use but contain the relevant information. In addition to that, we were also taught how to use symbols such as “”, * and the word AND to further enhance our search query. Each of those has a different purpose for example the “” sign is to tell the search engine that you want the specific and exact word or phrase for the results.