Monday, October 26, 2009

RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test

I was assigned to learn about metacca.com. The first thing I did was simply research "Big bang theory" In the "Search" line. The T.v. show always comes up when I search for the Big Bang Theory, so I have to change my search a bit. I went to advanced search and typed ""Big Bang Theory", -cbs -charlie -sheen -tv show +Big +Bang+ theory." When i clicked "search" this time, I had great results for my topic.
key words for this topic are "big" and "bang" i have learned that anytime I am searching for this subject, I always have to use my operators to better guide me to what I am looking for. if I only search "Big Bang Theory" I end up with a lot of sites that have to do with the television show starring Charlie Sheen.
I like this site, because it hits a lot of popular sites that I search at once. (I.e. Google, Yahoo)
I started Exploring Metacca.com, and There is an "Images" button to search. I typed in "Crop circles" and when I hit search, a lot of pictures with crop circles came up.
So then I got curious and exited out of the site and went back into it. I re-typed in "cropcircles" in the search key when it was set to web. Tons of site came up on crop circles. So then without typing anything, I clicked "images" and the images of crop cirlces came up. Then I hit "news" and articles came up, and so on and so forth. There were even videos of weird paranormal activity regarding crop circles.

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