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Databases and Search Engines

Posted on October 17, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Who knew so much goes into just searching a simple topic? I sure didn’t and it may be the reason why most of the time I end up with a ton of information and not quite sure how to decipher it all. Just recently I had to write a paper about symbolism and character development on a story for my literature class. The professor wanted use a database to find sources that backed up our ideas. If I had read Badke’s chapter on databases I could have saved a lot of time not having to sift through a lot of useless information. Badke has a way of putting things into simple context that anyone can understand. Since we usually search with keywords we get a lot of broad information and not quite the exact information we may be looking for because that keyword can come up in many sources that are irrelevant to what you’re looking for. That’s why we need to add commands like OR, AND, and NOT to narrow our results and get exactly what we’re searching for, which I did not know about. We could also use many keywords that need to be included in the search to narrow the number of results and get more relevant information. While search engines and databases are great tools to use we need to be specific in our keywords so we don’t spend hours going through results that are of no value.

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Search Engines Behind the Scene

Posted on October 16, 2011 by | Leave a comment

Everyone knows how to and what search engines are but not everyone do it effectively. At least that’s what Badke said. Badke also taught me tons of techniques and tricks to efficiently narrow down my search results (e.g. using NOT in search engines exclude unwanted results). The way a search engine work can be compare to a complex factory assembly line. There are many steps and procedures that needs to take place every time we press a search button as mention in “How a Search Engine Works“. I also learned that companies like Google invest heavily their search engine; Google has more people working on their search engine than any other of their projects. From personal experience, I learned that Google makes a lot of money by configuring the pagerank system and putting payer’s WebPages in beginning of search results.

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Posted on October 16, 2011 by | 1 comment

To be quite honest i did not know if so much occurred behind the scenes just to obtain a few narrowed information. to find what you need, specification plays a big role. As badke stated you have to add certain word in your sentences to make  sure what you looking for can be found. By understanding what is broad and narrow information that can distinguish if you get good or best information for what is being search for. Badke even went on to explain how to enter a question in the search engine to get the more relative description that is needed. If what is entered is to long the web will give you a numerous amount of broad information which will have you going to each links to best determine what is needed for you. You can facilitate that just by implementing a few tactics can help you and also minimize the amount of time used.

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Assignment 9: Badke,Liddy,Leibman

Posted on October 16, 2011 by | 2 comments

One of the main tool of research that people use today is keyword searching. In order to do a research we have to use exact Keywords to find useful information. An example will be in a library because all the books are cataloged by a catalog record, so in order to find a book we need to know the exact information about the book and input them (Badke,35). Liddy’s article showed us a brief use of the different kind of processing that we can use while researching a topic. A search engine gives results to keywords we had typed but we have to be accurate when typing certain keywords because it can give a a lot of information but then not the information we were seeking to find. As we know Google is the search engine that everybody uses anytime and for anything in particular. Just when looking for something in particular we have to input keywords that cannot be to broad instead something that narrows the topic perfectly.

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Metadata and research

Posted on October 12, 2011 by | Leave a comment

First, my search strategies have shifted after I read this chapter of the book. I knew about the narrowing down words and using specific words to search databases but i didn’t know that they were differences between controlled vocabularies and keywords when searching.

At the beginning of the reading when Badke started talking about a standardize way of labeling different categories of books, made standardization looked bad. But he continue to say although it doesn’t give power to us to edit the tags or headings, it’s the best way to easily find things of the same content.

The advantage that the Library of Congress has put in place about searching for a particular topic is great. web browsers does not look for content of material in the article but it looks for whatever your typed in the search engine. To eliminate most of the unwanted results, we should start using more controlled vocabularies then use keywords to refine our results to reflect exactly what we searching in a database.

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