activity #4!

1. Identify a Specialized Search Engine/Subject Directory from Module 2 of Lesson 4 that relates to your topic. Search for information on your topic. Discuss the type of information you found. Be specific.

Answer:I choosed the effects of drugs and i found 10 article and the first article it gives useful information. The first article is also discuss all about the effects of drugs and all topics that related of drugs..it appeared also of what happen to those person who's taking drugs.

2. Select a Subject Directory from the Invisible Web, Module 1 of Lesson 4. Search for information on your topic. Describe the search and the results retrieved. Be specific.

Answer: Searched information technology and i found 1 website. It was title: the chronicle of higher Education: Information Technology and the URL of this site is: <http://www.chronicle.com/infotech>. This site are has many information or resources like:The Information Technology Supplement and Pedagory and Technology and many many more.

3. Using Yahoo!, find 2 Web sites on your topic. Provide the exact path through the hierarchical directory that you took. Also, list the URL of the 2 Web sites and provide a brief explanation of each site.

Answer:I path i took for Master Budget Component was: Input-Assumptions\Sample cash budget\Production budget\Pro Forma Balance Sheet\Pro Forma Income Statement.It has many web site found anthe one that gives helpful information was entitled of Sample master Budget and this is the URL: http://www.eiu.edu/~finance/a2100-a2150/budget/index.htm and the other section was all about the 2004 Products of the year...

4. Using either AltaVista or HotBot, locate one audio and one video file on your topic. Include the exact search statement used to locate the sites. Be specific.

Answer:Used the audio search in Atavista to locate How to manage a company and the it was link to the Defcon 13 and tell about A New Hybrid Approach for Infrastructure Discovery, Monitoring and Control.......

activity #3!

1. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
answer:"planning and flexibility" search statement found 20,800,000 Web sites on January 31 2007.

2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
answer: intitle:"planning and flexibility" site: org found 632 Websites on January 31, 2007

3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)
answer:yes! because in other search engine could not have an exactly information and answer.

4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)
answer:YeS!

5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point).
answer:The key with phrase searching and the Boolean AND.

6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point).
answer: The relatives merits of phrase searching and Boolean AND searching are they the same gives you a statement that retrieved a complete and most relevant information while field searching gives you a less information about your search...

7. Select one of the following Meta Search Engines. Devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the Meta Search Engine used, the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point).
answer:In Vivisimo,"planning and flexibility" retrieved 2,503 Web sites.

8. Were some of the same sites retrieved by Google and the Meta Search Engine? (1 point).
answer: yEs.

9. What differences did you notice between the results of this search and the results of the Google searches? (1 point).
answer:The difference between the google search and the Vivisimo is that google has many websites that has been found while the Vivisimo is have only few websites.

10. What impact might this have on the validity of the search results? (1 point)
answer:The impact is that the google search has the greater merit, and has the most relevant information and you've found the exactly answer of this search engine...........