Assignment 1
Assignment 1 – Evaluating Internet Search Facilities
Deadline: Week 5 (3-7 Jan 2005)
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
At the end of the assignment, you should be able to:
- Evaluate effectiveness of different internet search facilities
- Compare the effectiveness of different internet search facilities
INSTRUCTIONS
- You will be working in groups of 3-4 students.
- Select a research topic of your choice. Each individual member can select a topic of his/her choice. You may use the topic assigned for any project you are currently doing. The topic selected need not be similar to other group members.
- Using the topic selected in (2), each member must search for information from the Internet using the following search facilities* :
- Search engines
- Meta search engines
- Subject directories
- Databases
* For each category of search facility, each member is required to use TWO different examples eg Google and Altavista for category “Search engines.” Each member will use then use Google and Altavista in the course of searching for information on his/her topic for category “Search engines”.
- You can refer to UIR Lecture 4 for details of each search facilities.
- Each member must evaluate and compare the effectiveness of each example of search facility. Possible areas for discussion and comparison can include strengths and weaknesses in terms of search capabilities, result ranking, size of hits, etc. You are encouraged to use your own initiative to suggest other areas of discussion and comparison.
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