KEYWORD AND SEARCH ENGINE

All three readings were meant to teach us how to narrow down our search results when using different types of search engine. As a result of these readings, I have learned other methods of searching a database even if I don’t know what the database is dedicated for. For instant i learnt that if I am searching a medical database, my differentiation should be other words other than medical terminologies. For example if I am searching diebetes among African-Americans, diebetes will be my keyword but my subsearch will be African-Americans to narrow down my results. I have also learnt how to use stem words to search for words of similar meanings which Badke term it searching using “wildcards.” We’ve also seen that major search engine providers will return different results based on location, time, events etc. Making many factors infleunce results may be good but poor in a sense that one can hardly get a replica of search he/she did earlier.