Module 4 Tasks - Organising search information task

First, choose the best three sources found in the previous task (and be aware all these sources and information can be contributing to your resource bank assignment!)
Using whatever software or tool you think appropriate, record the following information about those sites:
URL.
author,
institution,
blurb/ summary / screen shot (this can be a direct copy of an appropriate abstract or introductory paragraph on the site: but make sure you record and reference it as such)

Again, using any useful software you have downloaded, or utilising your existing software, record this information on your computer in the way that you think will be most useful to you in terms of preparing for your third assignment (that is, in terms of how easy you will find it to access, retrieve, understand, contextualise and recall why you saved it - and with what!).

Record this information in your learning log, and also detail how you saved this information, what software you used and why.

For this task, I downloaded Bookmark Buddy. It downloaded really quickly and I had it running in no time. I firstly saved 3 bookmarks as instructed. I did this by creating a new folder in Categories. It was then a matter of fetching the url bookmark from the browser and adding it as a bookmark. I then found how to make notes and save the information. I think this is an especially useful tool for this subject in that you can make notes to refresh your memory later on. It also tells you the url, when you accessed the site, the number of times you accessed the site along with your 'rating' and comments.

The only downside to this is that its on a 20 day trial.

Module 4 Tasks - Boolean Search Task

Taking the same key words of your last search, think about how you would best search for the following:

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words
• sources relating to skills-based information on these key words.
• information coming only from university sources

• Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning log

The biggest number of hits would be by using the 'OR' function. This function would look for results containing any of these words. Google came up with 2,620,000,000 hits.

To find sources that relate to skills-based information on these key words, I used inverted commas with the AND function. "Advanced Internet Users" AND "Skills Based". This only came up with 18 hits, but funnily enough many were NET11 related. Go NET11 team!

To limit the search to information coming only from university sources, I made a rule to only look for those results with a .edu domain. This still resulted in 829 000 hits. I then tried using Copernic with the search: Advanced Internet Users.edu. This resulted in 20 hits.

Module 4 Tasks - Search Engine Task

1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search for the words: advanced internet users.

• record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log:

I used Google to do the search and it came up with 118 000 000 hits. The first hit listed was:

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/

2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search

• record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search. What differences did you notice? Why? Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results?

Using Copernic for this search I came up with only 55 hits. I only have the free version which doesn't allow you to nominate search engines.
The difference in result to the Google search is astounding. 18 million on Google down to 55 on Copernic is amazing. The Copernic program runs a meta search, which is much more refined than Google which trawls billions of sites listing words.
I think the Copernic i s most promising because the results are in a managable number.
The first hit listed was:

1.	Global Advanced Media WeBlog » Internet Users http://weblog.globaladvancedmedia.com/category/internet-users [Wisenut, Ask.com]

3. Save at least the first 5 hits of both searches.

Google search:
Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE - Keyboard Shortcuts
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/shortcut.html

Advanced User's Internet Training Resources
www.vicnet.net.au/training/advance.html

Advanced Internet Users, School of Continuing Education
www3.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=6835

News @ Cisco: China Supports Advanced Applications for Internet
newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2005/pr_09-21.html


Copernic Search:

1.	Global Advanced Media WeBlog » Internet Users http://weblog.globaladvancedmedia.com/category/internet-users

2.	Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced [Ask.com]

3.	Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE - Saving Web Pages http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/saveweb.html [Ask.com]

4.	Finding People on the Internet? http://netforbeginners.about.com/od/findingpeople/Finding_Pe... [About.com]

5.	Msen Advanced Internet Users Links Page http://www.msen.com/1997/adv_links.html [Ask.com]