I hope everyone had a great Christmas day and didn't eat to much :)

Module 4
search engine task

1. Choose your most commonly used Internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing
LOG ENTRY:
record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log

Google search for anteater
http://www.google.com.au/search?hl=en&q=anteater&btnG=Google+Search&meta=
First Result
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater
Number of Hits
Results 1 - 10 of about 795,000 for anteater [definition]. (0.05 seconds)

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 exactly the same search
LOG ENTRY:
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?

Copernic Search Result for the word Anteater
http://ws.copernic.com/copern/ws/results/Web/anteater/1/417/topnavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true

First Result
http://www.calibex.com/anteater-toys/zzcalibex2zB1z0--search-html
Number of Hits
Results: 1 - 20 of 72

3. save at least the first 5 hits of both searches
google 5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Anteater
http://www.maiaw.com/anteater/
http://www.anteater.com.au/
http://aft.sourceforge.net/

copernic 5
http://www.calibex.com/anteater-toys/zzcalibex2zB1z0--search-html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anteater
http://www.maiaw.com/anteater/
http://aft.sourceforge.net/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giant_Anteater

Notes on search google vs copernic
Google returned the most hits, but this included links of no use or little help, where as copernic returned less results, but they were on topic and no rubbish links. On first glance copernic gave the best results

Boolean searching 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
information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!
information coming only from university sources

LOG ENTRY:
Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning

biggest number of hits
- search for "anteater"

information most relevant to search
- search for "anteater not toy not picture"

information coming only from university sources
- search for "anteater or edu"