Monthly Archives: March 2012

Search Engines…Regular or High test

In looking about on the search engines of Yahoo, Google, Google Scholar and Refseek I found a distinct difference in the content shown. With the standard Yahoo and Google searches you will get mostly blogs, articles by anyone (usually duplicated … Continue reading

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Searching for Scholarly Research

In class we used many new search engines for scholarly information for our research projects.  One search engine I used was Google Scholar.  I’ll admit, it was very hard to find information using this search.  After typing in search keywords … Continue reading

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Giving Google Scholar A Try

After reading about Google Scholar in Research Strategies and then seeing it in action in class, I decided to give Google Scholar a shot. I find it ironic that a search engine that is known to provide  users with the most … Continue reading

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Research Journal #2

Using the search engines have been very useful after knowing how to input the keywords I need. However, I am finding difficulty on which documents to use and how to incorporate them into my research paper. There is so much … Continue reading

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Research Journel: Searching

One issue I encountered while searching for scholarly articles through Google Scholar is that I kept encountering the pay wall. It would be convenient if they added the option to exclude or include articles that must be paid for. A … Continue reading

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Search Engines

Well, when I’m using Google to search for information pertaining to my research question, I find it easier to use shortcuts such as parentheses, truncation, and phrase searching because your results are shorten and you’ll end up getting exactly what you … Continue reading

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Search Engines

While researching on my topic on Google scholar, I found a lot of useful information that can help me. But it does put you throw trouble because you have to know what exact key words to use yo find the … Continue reading

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Search Engines

When i was searching for a good source for my research topic i did come across some good searches on Google and Yahoo about information and privacy regarding professional sports. I had about one thousand or more search results that … Continue reading

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Notes from today, and reading/blogging for Monday, March 26

Today we got a late start because of the mysterious fire alarm, and in the time remaining discussed advanced internet searching and specialized search engines for scholarly content, such as Google Scholar, CiteSeer, Scirus, and Microsoft Academic. I hope you … Continue reading

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Research

The only problem in doing a research paper is finding the topic to write it on. I finally decided to write about Internet privacy and came up with the question “do we truly have Internet privacy or is it all … Continue reading

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