Activity #3 in ITE 5

1. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
"Da VInci Code" contradict "Christianity" search statement found 90,100 on February 01, 2007

2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
intitle:"Da Vinci Code" site:org found 3,320,000 websites on February 01, 2007

3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)
Answer:
Yes, because it displays more information than the other one; in terms of photos, details, comments, and videos. It directly goes to the topic that I've search and displays respectively the information that I wanted.

4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)
Answer:None

5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point)
Answer: In my own opinion, I choosed the search strategy using in a question form and also in a phrase form because it displays the information I'd expected to appear and displays more relevant results from the other.

6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point)
Answer:The advantage of using phrase searching is that the results are related to the phrase form present in the website. The advantage of boolean is that it minimizes the topic to be searched using only the keywords and its operators such +, -, /. The advantage of field searching is that it displays broader abd complex information.

7. Select one of the following Meta Search Engines. Devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the Meta Search Engine used, the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Answer:
Metacrawler, "Da Vinci Code" contradict "Christianity" retrieved 76 Web sites on February 01, 2007.

8. Were some of the same sites retrieved by Google and the Meta Search Engine? (1 point)
Answer: Yes, some of the results of metacrawler and google have in common but not all.

9. What differences did you notice between the results of this search and the results of the Google searches? (1 point)
Answer:The result of google displays more websites than the metacrawler. Metacrawler display the website which is relevant and exclude those very far from the topic searched.

10. What impact might this have on the validity of the search results? (1 point)
Answer: Its validity of searching displays more relatively near from the topic , relevant results, and rated on how many times the website are mostly used.