Lesson 3 SEARCH ENGINE/Metasearch

i dont know what it says but the visual really attracts me. :)

Search Engine? how it works
a Few of it is -Google.com
Altavista.com
Askjeeves.com

All this site will be the search
engine that i will be working on.
Found it this
sites, went across this forum, ABOUT.COM- AIDs/HIV

After the day of thinking which topic to work on for my research, decided the topic on the effects of the AIDs/HIV on youth. This topic is quite interesting actually and also a point for myself to learn about it. As some of us may have gone through some basic lesson during our secondary life. But still the problem is still currently a big trouble to the whole society.

The activity will allow to us to get the basic idea of the whole activity, getting the keywords and the keyword variations. So to get our basic of the typing the keywords in.

Today found out about this new method
"boolean operator". Normally i will just go into google or any other search
engine and randomly type in the words i want to look for. By taking out the
keywords and using the boolean opeartor eg. (effects OR symptoms*) AND (AIDs OR
HIV*) AND (youth OR Teenageers), to get the result that i desire. This actually
help me in doing the research in the report. i found out that GOOGLE they do not
need to apply the AND becuse it is by default.

So it actually more vaild result, rather then typing in AIDs. Then we had to compare between the Google or Goggle scholar. The two search engine, but for me i prefer more to the google to search rather then the google scholar. The scholar will get the result more articles that is on the net. Google will be a better choice for me, but still if i am looking for articles i will use the goggle scholar. And also when you want to view the full articles we need to pay in order to get the whole articles. Therefore i think using this unless i really need the documents.

Then we need to go to the forum that we found and we need to post a question on the forum and reply to one of it. Since is a fourm regarding about AIDs/HIV therefore the topic they had dicussed is very sensitive. Therefore it will be very sensitive even though is only infornt of the computer. therefore, the topic i dicuss will be very gerneral. Also on reply is just on my point of view. But the forum have a lot of useful information, that will be a great help for my research.

After all the sites we had visit and also getting the information for the web we will also need to get down the site so that we know which site we took the information from. Citation and bibliography actually help us to search to back the web easier. As we had all recorded down. So any time if i need to refer back is able track back the web page.