Monday, November 9, 2009

Internet Reasearch Project

  • Name of and link to the tool info.com
  • Summary or description of the tool : this search engion seaches googe yahoo ask bing and about all of the main pages in one place
  • Strengths: this allows for less time because you only have to search one place for many results , places them in order of popularity,  organizes them,   boolean search technique
  • Weaknesses: this simmular to the websites it searchs not all or the majority of sources are creditable
  • Search engines, directories, and other applications searched this compared to google is nice but there is no info scholar to promote acdemic journals
  • Databases
  • Operators AND OR
  • Case sensitivity nope and corrects spelling 
  • Stop words OR
  • Advanced search function nope
  • Limits 
  • Sorting by popularity
  • Display linners 
  • Help function yes but gives basic instructions 
  • Special features http://info.com/dogs placing the article you are searching after the slash will turn up the same results 

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