and i wonder where these dreams go, when the world gets in your way

November 16, 2007

Practical Prac 4&5

For practical 4&5, we have to choose our topic base for assignment 1. Base on the topic chosen, we have to think of relevant keywords to be used to search for information regarding our assignment. After which, we are given 3 different search facilities and base on it, we have to search for 3 resources. The 3 search facilities given are Search engine, Meta search engine and Subject directory. Base of the 3 different search engine, I found a few websites from it and chose the best out of it. After that, we have to comments on the results of the different search facilities and explain the strength, weakness and difference of the 3 search facilities. As this requires quite a long duration to complete, we took 2 weeks to finish it. As for the comments, we have to refer to lecture notes before commenting on it. Upon finishing, we have to pick which search facilities best meet our searching needs and explain why.

Lessons Learn
At the end of practical 4&5, I have learned how to evaluate different search engine according to the different factors and functions given by them. As such I am able to know which search facilities will provides me with a more efficient way of searching for information base on the type of information I am searching for. In conclusion, I felt that search engine (Google) is the best among the 3 search facilities. It suits my needs of researching.

zhihao 10:40 AM

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