Monday, July 13, 2009

SEARCHING THE WEB

We are now moving to the LAST unit in this course. We will be looking at Web Gateways and Portals. Your last assignment (06) introduces you to a number of specialized "gateway" links in the web. This is by no means an exhaustive list. Be aware that the web contains more than one level of searching ("invisible web") - information that is NOT readily, if at all, available through simple keyword searching. There is information WITHIN databases on GOOGLE

Use of these gateways/portals to locate information on your topic. You can also (for the final) do a keyword search on your topic and add the word DATABASE to the search.

For example,

diabetes AND database
"gun control" AND database

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is fantastic info: my topic is gun control, and I just searched on Google using "gun control" and database, and found some great information. Thanks!