Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Google vs. Nettrekker

Google:
-I felt that Google was a little worse than Nettrekker because Google has info of everything that is anything.
-My keywords were ineffective on Google because they were too broad. I came up with a lot of random things that did not help my topic.
-I felt that if I used a full sentence or a lot more specific detail, I might be able to get something useful out of it.

Nettreker:
-In Nettrekker, my keywords were a little too specific. I got a but more helpful info out of it than Google, but it still didn't come up with anything that was my topic.
-My keywords came up with things that were close to my topic, but were not my topic. If I used a keyword that was less specific, I think I would come up with better topics.

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Opposing Viewpoints


Opposing Viewpoints
Points of View
Ebsco
Search - ease of use
A little hard.
Also a little hard.
Easier.
Results - relevance and usefulness
Nothing that I was looking for.
Nothing that I was looking for.
Hard to find main topic.
Saving documents
Easy, but hard to see where it was saved.
Easy, but hard to see where it was saved.
Same thing.
Citations
Easy.
Easy.
Slightly less easy.
Other features (you define and describe 3-5 others)



Feature #1
A lot of keywords available
Quick search
Hard to get to actual search database
Feature #2
Quick search
A lot of options
Quick search
Feature #3
A lot of options
Popular
Options
Feature #4
Popular
Optional lists/choices
A lot of keywords available

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Del.i.cious

My Del.i.cious account did not work, it would not let me log in, so I am going to post them here.

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