Reading Response to: “Search is too important to leave to one company – even Google”

Search engines becoming very important in our lives, our news, our education, and even politics are dependent upon the searchability of the subject we search for.  As Dewey's, rigid structure of categories has its flaws because once the ingredients are mixed, you can't go back and undo what you already mixed in to the bowl.  …

Reading Response to: “The Anatomy of a Large-Scale Hypertextual Web Search Engine”

creating a web search engine is not an easy task for an ever increasing growth of the web, however, with today's technologies, the technical part of improving its infrastructures is getting easier and cheaper.  The improvement of the search quality is the main goal here.  If I understand it correctly, the problem here is the …

Class work: Comparing PsycINFO and Google search engines

searching for "educational system in America" Google scholar: came back with the result of 3.2 mil. hits. CSA web: came up with 249 publications ---------------------------- Google: searched instead of "Find articles with all of the words" i used a different field to "Find articles with all of the words with the exact phrase" which narrowed …