Research Journal, Part 8

 Research Journal, Part 8: Types of Information: Focus on Search Engines and Web Sites


Search tool : Alta Vista
 I have heard of Alta Vista before and I know it is very popular that is why I chose to use this search tool for this project. Alta Vista has many advanced searching features. It allows Boolean searching, and sorting by keywords or date. Other search options available are site/domain searching, file format searching and a search filter which allows you the options to include or filter out adult content search results. With Alta Vista you can also search for a web site by country origin or by language. You can select one or more languages or use the search with all languages option. This would come in particularly useful to people here that speak a different language or research with a class in a foreign language. I played around with this search tool using different keywords from my previous subject of artificial intelligence. A search using artificial intelligence and projects to search for past, current, and future projects retrieved 33,100,000 results. 


Meta Search Tool: Monster Crawler 
    I have never heard of monster crawler before this project. The main page has categorized subject links with links to images, video, weather, stocks, maps and more. Monster does not support as many advance features as Alta vista however, it does support Boolean,truncating, and  keyword searching. You can also search by language here also and use the option to include or exclude domain searching. Using the keywords artificial intelligence and ethic* gave 11,700,000 results.

Subject Directories: Digital Librarian
    The Digital librarian subject directory main page has categorized subjects. It seems to support Boolean searching but I did not find any other advanced search features. Digital librarian did accept using the ~ tilde before words when searching also.  Using the same keywords artificial intelligence and ethic* gave 332 search results.