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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Reflection 3.
Waking up early for school today was no easy task. The thought of having to attend a seven hours class made me more restless than i already was. But with the thirst of knowing what will happen later in the day, i headed for school to meet the other zombies.
Today, was indeed a fruitful day. I was introduced to the Meta Search Engine and Subject Directory which again, i never knew existed. The functions of these search facilities varies from engine to engine and the Meta Search Engine is one of my favourite. Reason being, its ability to searches various search engines such as Ask.com, Google.com, yahoo.com,etc, simply amazes me. Instead of having to do my searches on all various engines and having to go through the whole load of junk that i am provided with, all i have to do to get useful information was to use the Meta Search engine which provides me with the best results from the various search engines with a click of a button. So basically, it works like a All-in-One system that does the choosing of websites for you.
However, my experience with the Subject Directory was not a good one. Although i might be able to dig out a few useful information here and there, the results they provide me are mostly irrelavant and useless. But one thing about the Subject Directory that simply amazes me is its ability to compile the databases and categorize them in subjects of matter. With that, I was able to browse through the results very quickly and not waste anymore time digging for information.
To top it up, I've been introduced to various Invisible web such as Medline and the databases that can be found in TP, naming EBSCOHOST,ITPRO and many others. I found out that through these databases, i am able to find out more as the documents they provided me are more indepth. Most Invisible webpages are not accessible to everyone as most of them requires a pay type account or a privilege account. Unlike visible web, they cannot be found in the search engines.
As long as the day might be, it was a fruitful one. I do not know how the others feel, but i have definitely enjoyed myself. I am glad to be here with everyone else and am most definitely grateful for the knowledge that I am able to acquire. So other than the long draggy hours that i have to sit through,there really is nothing to complain about the lesson.
Let's all have fun throughout the remaining days of DPA PPP!
See you all tomorrow!
tata!
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