Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Absent student-
    Today in Res&Tech we learned about different search engines and features. Goorulearning only shows wikipedia pages. Google typically seems to be the best search engine because of all of the results. Bing and Google are basically the same thing. Google Books is not as helpful for finding answers about books. Instagrok picks out terms and puts the topic in context. This can sometimes be helpful. Also, Sweet search is supposedly a good resource but the servers were down which didn't give us the chance to test it. All in all, I would say that google is the most dependent resource.
-Olivia McAlpine

Tuesday, September 10, 2013

Google A Day Search


I originally typed into the search bar "dinner honoring Suzanne Mubarak psychopath" and this was the first link that popped up when i hit search. I chose these terms because they're the core of the question. I learned that after the question's been up for a while people ask the exact question in order to help other's find it more easily. Though it defeats the purpose of Google A Day, it does help find the answer!