1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing.
LOG ENTRY:
Record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log (Allen et al. n.d.)
The most commonly used search engine for me will be Google and my search topic is “Movie Database”. The result return 1 - 10 of about 115,000,000 for Movie database. (0.29 seconds).
2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search
LOG ENTRY:
Record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first
search. What differences did you notice? Why? Which search, on first
glance gave you the most promising results? (Allen et al. n.d.)
I continued to use the same word “Movie Database” to search for it. The result for Google showed above, this time I try Sherlock from my Mac OSX 10.4 to compare with Google and see how different the result is.
The search result from Sherlock was 33. Obviously the first thing I notice was the number of results it is huge different compared with Google. The result not really surprise me, I knew it will be big different but I just want to try and experience it. Apparently Google gave the most promising result for this search. It could be Google is a search engine and go further for searching than Sherlock, and Sherlock is not really a search engine therefore the result is so difference.
3. Save at least the first 5 hits of both searches.
Google.com search
1. w1ww.imdb.com/
2. www.allmovie.com/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database
4. www.dianying.com/en/
5. http://hkmdb.com/
Sherlock search
1. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=bestsitefirstcom&path=tg/browse/-/404272
2. http://www.imdb.com/
3. h ttp://www.movies.com/
4. http://websearch.about.com/od/freevideos/f/movie-database.htm?iam=sherlock_abc
5. http://websearch.about.com/b/2006/12/07/internet-movie-database-a-movie-search-engine-2.htm?iam=sherlock_abc
Reference
Allen, M., et al. (n.d.). Module 4: Using the infosphere: taking & organising. Curtin University of Technology. Retrieved August 10, 2009, from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_18825_1&content_id=_985243_1
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