Reading trough this week’s virtual session “Internet Research” the first point which came to my mind was: “there is much more possibility for an appropriate internet research than just using google“. Namely, to be honest, the only search engine I use when I need to research for a presentation or for any other task, is google. I think especially this virtual session is very useful for us students who use the net daily for getting information. One gets to know the different search engines which one can use such as
- search engines
- meta-search engines
- catalogues
and their pros and cons concerning the searching for special information. You realize that sometimes it is more useful for your research to consider other search engines because the search engine you are using may not distinguish between reliable and unrelable information. Especially for students it is more comfort and easier to consider the first results in google. What we don’t know is, that these results may be conmpletly misleading for our research topic.
This is why I think that it is importtant for students to at least know where and how to use also different search engines.
pierre Said:
on November 19, 2008 at 9:23 am
Hello,
I like that you comment on the virtual session very personally. you say what is important for you and others and even explain why. Apart from that, you also talk about appearing difficulties.
martinaknack Said:
on November 19, 2008 at 9:30 am
Hi!
I totally agree to your statements about the virtual session “Internet Reserach”. I use Google very often and I didn’t know about the different types of search engines before. From my point of view, it is very helpful and important for students and pupils to know how to do research on the Internet in a more versatile way than only ” to google”.
Have a nice week!
Maddie