Well here I am starting another Semester's reading. I'm going to put notes up for both courses here in the hope that I'll remember more, and the little plant struggling through the cracks ( which definitely represents the sum of my knowledge of ICT ) will grow into a lovely big tree.
Summary of Reading of Herring Chapter 2
Search Engines
- Single Search Engines - eg. Google,Yahoo etc
-Meta Search Engines - apply search key words to a number of search engines eg. Dogpile
Different search engines have different features
Features include:
Boolean logic terms - AND, OR, NOT Default - Most default to AND
Truncation - eg acid*
etc (on p29)
Effective searches
Looked at Noodletools - http://www.noodletools.com/ very helpful for a newby like me.
Based on the purpose of the search
Ask Jeeves – uses everyday language - can put in questions
Librarians need to keep on top of updates in search engines – go to: http://www.searchenginewatch.com/
Search Engine Showdown – http://www.notess.com/
The Deep web – 500 times larger than the surface web
Much of the material here is in the form of databases and is specialist info, but school can still profit from sources such as those on p40
Homework
Went to Noodle tools - “find the best search for your information need”. Looked at “librarians Internet index search and only got 1 hit - not very helpful
Virtual LRC.com – 4 hits – none looked good
NSDL.org – 139 hits – many very relevant to this age group – yay!!!!
After doing all this and stressing because I was trying to get through all of Part 1 on the modules I have had a look at the timetable - what a relief - I don't have to do all this this week! I am used to 401 where you had to read half a library every week.
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