Day 5 of UIR

Its day 5 of UIR. I have learnt the differences between different search engines, like Google, Metacrawler and Yahoo. They have their similarities and differences.

We used keyword variations to help us in finding the topic that we are researching on.
Variations like - usage of 2 factor authentication in banking industry and authentication methods used in the banking industry.

The search engines gave the following search results:

Google returned about 600000 results
Yahoo returned about 200000 results
Metacrawler returned about 80 results

The common similarity between the 3 search engines are that they do return websites that give definitions of what is 2 factor authentication http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two-factor_authentication.

The differences is that Metacrawler gives specific search results like why 2 factor authentication is used, how is 2 factor authentication used, the effect of 2 factor authentication, while Yahoo and Google do not give as much specific search results like Metacrawler.

Also, Google and Yahoo returned many irrelevant results starting from page 5 results.

Therefore, Metacrawler is the best among all 3.

Day 3 of UIR

I have learnt how to identify the different purposes of internet resources, compare the different purposes of internet resources. also post a new topic on the discussion forum and create 2 site feeds of my classmates

Online Shopping

i would like to get this punching bag

Day 2 of UIR

I have learnt how to start to create a personal blog. identify different websites, like organizational or personal websites, compare them. also cite and compile bibliography of resources.

Day 1 of UIR

Day 1 of UIR was alright. we learnt how to use internet as a research tool whereby we had to search for the topic we are doing on, mine was usage of 2 factor-authentication in the banking industry. had to find the discussion forum and sign up for a account.

my 2 favourite websites are
- www.nba.com
- www.contenderasia.com