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Information of the future

   In the future, I see information still the same as it is now. Now, information is still growing from every single detail and will not stop. Information in the future might be newly organized however, I don’t think it … Continue reading

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How to Knit

Knitting. Every non-knitter that I’ve come across thinks I’m a magician of some sort whenever they see me knitting while traveling. Admittedly, I kinda get a kick every time people look at me like I’m David Blaine or something because … Continue reading

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The search goes on.

  I first used google to search my research topic and I used the schools library database and the New York public library database to search for my topic. The results were really different from each other. I get more … Continue reading

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Newer is Not Always Better

No doubt everyone in the class has tried to use Google Scholar to search for information on copyright laws and online piracy. Given Google’s reputation as the “go-to” search engine for just about anything of interest on the Internet, it … Continue reading

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Research journal 2

During our last class session, we discussed about our finding scholarly sources for our research paper. In class I was searching on Google Scholar for sources on my paper. My findings were interesting.  They were different from search on a … 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

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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KeyWords

Reading Badke’s Chapter 3 brought up the question “Do you remember the first thing that you have ever googled?” Keywords is the key to getting the search results you want. As Badke state, if you use the wrong search technique … Continue reading

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Search Engines

Search Engines are a compilation of databases of information managed by millions to billions of people throughout the world — at least that’s how I thought they basically worked for everyone. That is until it was presented in class that … Continue reading

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CopyRight

So is copyright a good thing or a bad thing? In my opinion, I agree the copyright should last long for some materials like Star Wars. Because if they didn’t have years of protection then someone else will come along, … Continue reading

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