UIR Practical 4 & 5
Topic: Development of Alcoholism Among Youths
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Purpose: Information and News
Description: Provides information on alcohol advertising and youth. Interlink that advertising has an impact on alcoholism among youths.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits = 1,120,000
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results = http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Description:
Provides information on alcohol advertising and youth. Interlink that advertising has an impact on alcoholism among youths.
Meta Search Engine
http://www.metacrawler.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Purpose: Information
Description:
Provides information on the risk factors and consequences of alcohol abuse and statistics on youth have been mentioned.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits = 108
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results =
http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Description:
Provides information on the risk factors and consequences of alcohol abuse and statistics on youth have been mentioned.
Subject Directory
http://www.galaxy.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://www.tarzanatc.org/
Purpose: Business and information
Description:
Website to provide services and aid to youths on kicking out alcohol abuse.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits : Directory matches = 759
Site matches = 4
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results
http://www.tarzanatc.org/
Description:
Website to provide services and aid to youths on kicking out alcohol abuse.
Reflections on Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness
You must then evaluate and compare the effectiveness of each search facility. You may use criteria such as the differences and similarities in terms of search capabilities, result ranking, size of hits, etc. You are encouraged to use your own initiative to suggest other areas of discussion and comparison.
Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
Comparing the search results,
Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
There are different strengths and weakness between each search engine. Metacrawler which search through multiple search engine, thus getting better results. Google however, it display search results that is only available to google as google is using its own technology in search engine. And google does not seem to support boolean codes as I tested it with using the following keyword, “Alcoholism+youth” and “Alcoholism youth” and it yield me both the same results. But it does not meant that it cannot support other Boolean as I did not try all Boolean operators.
Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
Overall, I feel that meta search engine is the best facility that meets my needs as it uses multiple search engine to search for my results. But one down point is that it wasn’t able to provide as much hits than google, but still, it provides high accuracy and precision in the search result compared to google.
Comment whether your research topic has any co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved.
The resources retrieve from the search engine is greatly related to my research topic. It provide me with more ideas like an alternative thinking such as that beer advertisement also plays a part in influencing alcoholism. The statistics data is to provide concrete evidence on the uprising of alcoholism among youths. An alternative solution to solve the problem related to alcoholism among youths.
Bibliography
Resource 1
“Alcohol Advertising and Youth” Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Resource 2
“Youth Drinking” Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Resource 3“Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc” (2001) Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.tarzanatc.org/
Search Engine:
http://www.google.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Purpose: Information and News
Description: Provides information on alcohol advertising and youth. Interlink that advertising has an impact on alcoholism among youths.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits = 1,120,000
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results = http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Description:
Provides information on alcohol advertising and youth. Interlink that advertising has an impact on alcoholism among youths.
Meta Search Engine
http://www.metacrawler.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Purpose: Information
Description:
Provides information on the risk factors and consequences of alcohol abuse and statistics on youth have been mentioned.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits = 108
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results =
http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Description:
Provides information on the risk factors and consequences of alcohol abuse and statistics on youth have been mentioned.
Subject Directory
http://www.galaxy.com/
Keywords used:
alcoholism+youth
URL and Purpose:
http://www.tarzanatc.org/
Purpose: Business and information
Description:
Website to provide services and aid to youths on kicking out alcohol abuse.
Comments on Search Results:
Size of hits : Directory matches = 759
Site matches = 4
Relevant ranking = None
Relevant results
http://www.tarzanatc.org/
Description:
Website to provide services and aid to youths on kicking out alcohol abuse.
Reflections on Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness
You must then evaluate and compare the effectiveness of each search facility. You may use criteria such as the differences and similarities in terms of search capabilities, result ranking, size of hits, etc. You are encouraged to use your own initiative to suggest other areas of discussion and comparison.
Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
Comparing the search results,
Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
There are different strengths and weakness between each search engine. Metacrawler which search through multiple search engine, thus getting better results. Google however, it display search results that is only available to google as google is using its own technology in search engine. And google does not seem to support boolean codes as I tested it with using the following keyword, “Alcoholism+youth” and “Alcoholism youth” and it yield me both the same results. But it does not meant that it cannot support other Boolean as I did not try all Boolean operators.
Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
Overall, I feel that meta search engine is the best facility that meets my needs as it uses multiple search engine to search for my results. But one down point is that it wasn’t able to provide as much hits than google, but still, it provides high accuracy and precision in the search result compared to google.
Comment whether your research topic has any co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved.
The resources retrieve from the search engine is greatly related to my research topic. It provide me with more ideas like an alternative thinking such as that beer advertisement also plays a part in influencing alcoholism. The statistics data is to provide concrete evidence on the uprising of alcoholism among youths. An alternative solution to solve the problem related to alcoholism among youths.
Bibliography
Resource 1
“Alcohol Advertising and Youth” Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://camy.org/factsheets/index.php?FactsheetID=1
Resource 2
“Youth Drinking” Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://library.adoption.com/Alcoholism/Youth-Drinking/article/4859/1.html
Resource 3“Tarzana Treatment Centers, Inc” (2001) Retrieved November 23, 2006 from World Wide Web: http://www.tarzanatc.org/
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