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Thursday, November 25, 2010 4th eir lesson update! Meta Search Engine vs Subject Directory. 안녕하세요! :D (Annyeonghasaeyo, that's hello in korean!) It's time for another update! My eir blog is about one month old already! Decided to give it a revamp, like the new look? Hope you do! :) In this lesson, we were assigned to evaluate the effectiveness of various search engines. What are the websites that comes to your mind upon search engines? Google? Yahoo? Oh c'mon, don't you have any other special websites besides these two? Well, fret not because I'm going to introduce some interesting and super useful search engines that you've probably never come across! Search engines like google and yahoo have their own databases of different websites. Today, I'm going to share with something called Meta Seach Engines! Unlike search engines like gooogle and yahoo, Meta Search engines return you results of your topic from various search engines! Meta Search Engines does not have databases of their own. In this case, you'll get everything relevant to your topic from almost everywhere without the need of searching one by one, from google to yahoo then to msn and so on! Isn't this like super amazing? :D This is made really convenient especially for students like us, that often have to do research work on projects. Can't wait to try the Meta Search Engines? Let me share a few with you!  MetaCrawler  Mamma It's super cool isn't it? Look at the name, Mamma, mother of all search engines, totally fits its functions perfectly! :) Next, we were also told to evaluate subject directories too! In case you've no idea what subject directories are, they list sites categorised by topic and location. This is convenient when you want to find resources pertaining to a specific topic. To show you an example, this is a search I've conducted on Yahoo Directory using my topic. To get to my topic through the categories, I clicked on Directory>Science>Earth Sciences>Geology and Geophysics>Volcanology>Volcanoes.  Simple isn't it? Nowadays, researching seems to be almost as easy as ABCs! :) If I were to compare 2, I would definitely prefer Meta Search Engines because it's super awesome! It almost seemed as if I can get anything I need there! Meta-search engine is more effective in helping me to find resources related to my research topic since it is able to collate relevant and focused resources according to my needs at one go. It is totally different from subject directory since results are based on the subject chosen with the directory, not according to whatever is typed on the search bar. 0 comments |
The name is Jing Yi, Sheron. I'm 18 turning 19, birthday falls on 09April. I study in TP AMS P903, I wanna fly, to the ends of where the sky will finally lead to. Random facts? I love dogs! To be exact, I love my little doggy like crazyyyyy, he's my megalove :] I'm a die-hard fan of sweets, chocolates, icecream and stuffs. I may look fierce, but I don't bite! C: Wanna know more about me? You just have to keep reading ;D the sites. Blogger EIR-RAWKZ Second Life friends. Donovan Jun Siang other websites. twitter plurk formspring facebook October 2010 November 2010 December 2010 January 2011 Designer : Chili. x o x o |