HZQ II

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Monday, January 4, 2010, 11:08 AM

Practical 3 and Google IT!

TODAY.

A) Were you impressed by google’s search functions/features? Why?

We were tasked to find out the effectiveness of the Google search engine and
Google Scholar search engine. My first opinion was that both were by Google, so what
difference do they have other than having different names?

Google Search Engine
+Resources provided are diverse and of varieties.
One source leads to another.

Google Scholar
+Search results are from a diverse variety of sources written by everyone. Resources are relevant to keyword and topic. Search results are only based on articles or abstracts written by academic publishers or professional societies. Resources are relatively relevant to keywords.

So, after collating a few criteria on both search engines, in my opinion, the original Google search engine still works best for me. Even though most of the time, a few of the resources are unreliable and require further searching, I would still be bound to find the information I would be looking for.

On top of that, there are more variety of articles found in Google search than the scholar. Google scholar provides professional articles at most of the time, but the Google search provides a wider source of search results from blogs, to electronic journals and even forums. Most of the content provided by Google search might be short, but from that short content, I can go on finding the more relevant content from other sources.

The relevance of Google search better than of Google scholar as more than 4 of the first few sources provided includes the searched topic given, compared to scholar that only has less than 2.

b) How do you feel about participation in discussion forum? Is it helpful for your research? Do you feel anxious about talking to others you do not know?

I have tried participating in a discussion forum from SGforum. I didnt get any immediate response to the thread created, but hopefully it might grow.
Other than this, I have participated in a gaming forum before. To me, forums arent really the best way of finding reliable answers or immediate answers.

First of all, forum threads can be replied by anyone, and might have an unreliable source. Therefore, we cant believe whatever written in a thread before confirming its reliable or true.

Secondly, some forums might only havve access to certain members or people, therefore might have limited number of people looking at our threads. Therefore, response might be slow. That, or there arent many people who share the same interests as we do, so our questions and discussions might not be responded to.

c) Why must you do citation and bibliography?

We have also learnt the importance of making citations. It is basically to state the source of a particular research material found on the net that we have retrieved, since the material is an intellectual property belonged to the author. Citations acts as sort of a commendation to the author; a way to respect his work.

If we dont cite people's work, people wont cite ours. So, put them citations down!

Well, today was a really fruitful day and I have learnt new things especially about using keywords for searches.

See everyone tomorrow!

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