Week 5

Week Five
1. Lecture Summary
2. Tutorial Summary
a. Using the interactive tutorial on search engine at www.monash.com/spidap.html , list four strategies that will help you to structure a good search.
b. List the strategies that you used to locate your answers and explain their effectiveness.
c. Summarize what you have learnt during this module about information found on the internet and ways to find that information using search engines.
3. Screen Shots
a. Quiz results page
4. Reading 1 Summary- ‘Robert Harris-Web Search Strategies’
5. Reading 2 Summary- ‘ The History of the Internet: (Chap 4- Search Engines)’
6. Reading 3 Summary- ‘Search Engine Optimization for Companies’

Lecture Notes-

• A search engine is a web-based application that crawls the internet usually from the textural information contained on them.


• Probelms with search engines are that they arent very specific in finding what you want and usually come up with alot of hits.


• Directories are human- edited wheres search engines work algorithmically


• U.S Search Engine Rankings, September 2007

Of the 9.4 billion searches performed:

Google - 57%

Yahoo- 23.7%

Microsoft- 10.3%

Ask- 4.7%

Time Warner Including AOL- 4.5%

Tutorial Summary -

• Activities to use search engines and getting the best out of them
• Divert from the problems by using the strategies
  

Four Strategies For Searching That Will Help You Find What You Want:

1. Use inverted Commas Around Your Search eg. "Tiger"


2. Be specific when searching eg. EPL instead of english league


3. Use the boolean search style eg. Jaguar - car instead of jaguar not car


4. Use advanced search functions to narrow the info down

Results

Summary on what i learnt-

I learnt to use the inverted commas and key phrases for all of the questions which helped me out for all of them so it was very effective. I have learnt that the information given on the net through google and wikipedia isnt reliable enough for univeristy and that when searching for something i need to break it down and use the various strategies to find what i want.

Internet Search Tips and Strategies By Robert Harris -

Displays categories of information on the web such as the free visible web, the free invisible web and the paid databases over the web. Also informs the viewer about search tool types such as search engines and directories with the differences between the two. The site provides a vast strategy to fnding what you want on search engines and the ifnroamtion that goes into searching the net.

Search Engine Optimisation -

Provides a very large amount of information on how to use search engines to their full capability but only by paying. This company site "websight" allows paying members to reek the benefits of them performing a website analysis to see if your small business is ready for search engine optimization.