LAYING THE FOUNDATION: MINING THE WEB

LAYING THE FOUNDATION: MINING THE WEB

A.     Summary

The internet is a tool that offers a worldwide network of information which can be assessed trough computer. Individual search engines will compile their own searchable database while metasearch engine is gate way to database from multiple search engines. The web is basically a common information space where people can communicate by sharing information.

Basic tips for searching:

·         Be specific

·         Get more results by being general

·         Define your search terms using Boolean operators (and, or, and not)

Evaluating Internet Resources

·         Accuracy

·         Authority

·         Currency

·         Purpose

·         Uniqueness

·         Ease of use

It is important that you give credit to the person or organization that wrote the information or created the document. Using someone else’s words or ideas and representing them as your own is called plagiarism.

B.     Reflection

In searching the internet, some students or even professionals do not know yet the proper searching the internet. Sometimes as long as the answer appear in the screen it is already the right one, without knowing or investigating if the source can be trusted. Sometimes we address the question in a long sentence that is why sometimes we cannot find the right answer and sometimes will just waste our time.

But knowing the proper searching the web, this will help in our future research and searching for assignment. This would be also helpful to our students someday. By knowing this, this will prevent us from wasting our time searching for the answers.