Searching the WWW

To many people, including myself, thought that searching the web is just firing up our browser and key in a subject. But most of the times, the returned results may not be relevant. There are tatics and ways to search for the contents that we really want. During the lab(week2), we were delegated to search on any topic that we are interested. We would then categorise the results returned by the search engine into categories like personal site, coporate sites, forums, etc.

We put the sites that we found into these categories so that we can know their author of the contents and how reliable the contents are. For instance, contents from a personal site or blog may be just the author's opinion, and not a fact. To judge whether if a content is merely an opinion, we could try to compare them with the other sites, especially encyclopedias, that we had found to see their similarities and differences. From here, then we infer what are the contents that we want.

This doesn't gurantee to work always, but it helps to filter out the right contents for us, at least.