SPEZIFY:This was a very unique tool! It opens the searched word(s) it opens it in like word bubble style, showing all kinds of different ways. It links you up to social media sites with the verbiage you searched and also general websites that talk about your searched items. It handled Boolean operators fairly well. Although I liked its style I do not think I would use it for a paper/project. It just seemed to informal and not enough scholarly website came up from what I could tell.
MONSTER CRAWLER: Since this is powered by Google, Yahoo and Bing it was pretty set up as such. It lists the websites that match your terms that you searched. This site handled Boolean VERY well! I loved this site and would consider using it again since it is backed by three other good search engines.
VIRTUAL REFERENCE SHELF: I liked that this gave options as to what you wanted to search, such as books or web articles. It was easy to use and very accessible for the new users. Boolean did not seem to work as well for me on this site as others I have used, but it did pick up on some of it. I think I would probably use this site more so for when I am searching for books pertaining to a specific subject.
I liked this weeks assignment! This class is teaching me so much it is way more than I ever thought! I liked being able to go through different websites and seeing how each one is different. I now have more sites to use when doing research for different classes and doing different things. Thank you for introducing all of this to myself and I am sure countless other students who appreciate it!
Hi, Malari:
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you are learning about interesting online places you'll visit again. A subject directory can be a good place to start research but since it is such a small section of the web, the topics need to be broad. That's why boolean isn't always helpful there.
There are so many different ways and places to search. I'm glad this assignment introduced you to some new, cool places to revisit.
Cheers,
Andrea