Friday, January 22, 2010

post 5

a. Which criteria did you use to evaluate Stomp.com? Why did you choose this criteria? What lessons have you learnt from this activity?

I evaluate stomp.com by find out the purpose, coverage, accessibility, presentation and agreement, and usability. I will emphasize on accessibility. There was not any restriction to access through registration and logging in. The images and existence of thumbnails are available.

Through this activity, I have learnt not to trust online sources too easily as the information they provide may not be accurate.

b. How do you feel about sharing your views via Wiki?

I felt that we can learn a lot of things from other people as we can get some comments. And it is fun to share with many people

Monday, January 4, 2010

post 4

Do you think it is more effective to search the invisible web (databases) than using search engines, meta-search or subject directories? Why?

No, I think that search engines, meta-search or subject directories are more effective than to search using invisible web (databases) as I had tried using Invisible web gateways to research on my topic, but this invisible web do not have much information for me to use. Although, the information was reliable due to the resources being maintained by government agencies and non-profit organizations. Still, there were irrelevant resources found and limited information.

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.