Research Journal Library Database vs Search Engine

 

One immediate and obvious difference between an internet search engine and a library database is the ā€œso calledā€ amount of results. When I searched ā€œe-book academic usageā€ on Google 210,000,000 hits came up, much too many for me to ever sift through. A search on ACM Digital Library resulted in 150 results. Though these results were more manageable after skimming through them I found that not many pertained to what I intended on researching, about less than a handful did. Many of the results came up because my search had the term ā€œe-bookā€ in it, so the results were actual e-books and not articles on e-books. My Google search on the other hand gave me many more relevant results.Ā 

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