Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Nettrekker vs. Google

Nettrekker:
I had to use a different search phrase to get results.
I got results that didnt match with my topic.
It was harder to get good articles that match the topic.

Google:
I had to change the search phrase to get to my topic.
Google was easier to find information on my topic.
It took longer to get accurate information on the topic.

Over all I thought that google would be better to use if I needed good information on my topic. If i needed information faster, i would go to nettrekker because it took a little less to find information on my topic but i had to change the search phrase.

Monday, December 8, 2008

I am doing pretty good finding all of my information for my research topic. You can tell that the opposing viewpoints was my favorite site for finding everything. The other two sites were not my favorite for finding everything. If it were my choice i would rather use google than any of these other sites, it isnt as easy as just using google.

Thursday, December 4, 2008


Opposing Viewpoints
Points of View
Ebsco
Search - ease of use
good
ok
ok
Results - relevance and usefulness
this had the most relavent results. It was the easiest to use for drawing information from.
This site had different results for what my search topic was.
This site had irrelavent results. This was the most frustrating to find good information out of.
Saving documents
This was the best to get back to where I had left off in my search.
This was kind of hard to find the site I had left off on.
This was the hardest, it took too long to find where I left off.
Citations
Good

ok
worst. too hard to find.
Other features (you define and describe 3-5 others)