week 5 Using Search Engines

Lecture:

Today we had two weeks of slides to go through, but i had already done week 4's task sheet.

Weeks 5 tutorial was about search engines and all the difference between them.

We were asked to answer some questions on search engines in the tut, some of the questions were name 4 different search engines and what is a boolean search.

We then moved onto categories of information on the web, search tools types, problems with search engines, search engines interaction and the some search tips.

There wasn't much info in the slides therefor less to write about so today's blog is abit thin.

Workshop:

Strategies to structure a search engines:

1. 
   
   Make sure you have an advance search, so that you can narrow down search to what you want.


2. 
   
   Program the engine so it searches the words together.


3. 
   
   Make sure the search engine is easy to use and that you don't need a PhD to use it.


4. 
   
   Try to get the highest ranking info.

When I was looking for answers for this I used ask Jeeves. All I did was type in the question and then scrolled through the links it gave me to find the right page. There was alot of hits so i had choose the most recognised site.

readings:

This reading is internet search tips and strategies written by Robert Harris. The page has an overview on the net and includes how the Internet has an enormous quantity of information, with thousands of newsgroups and billions of web pages. It also has categories of web information; The Free Visible Web, The Free Invisible Web and Paid Databases over the Web.

This reading is on search engines. This site contains two graphs that are on millions of web page indexed and search engine sizes. It also has three common search engine; Google, Alta vista and northern lights and has a brief description on each of them.

The third reading was on search engine optimisation. This site a company that analyses your business website to see if it will be added to the list when someone searches for a product they might sell. It then gives advice and tips for you to show your site constructor so that they can improve it to get the most out of the site.