Tuesday, August 4, 2009

MODULE 4 - Boolean Search

The biggest number of hits relating to these key words?
Boolean search - antivirus OR anitvirus program
Search hits -
38,000,000

Information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for?
Boolean search - antivirus software NOT antivirus
Search hits -
59,800,000

Information coming only from university sources?
Boolean search - antivirus AND university
search hits -
18,700,000

It's very interesting to see the different search results. I wish I had of learned this years ago, this would make searching much easier. But I wonder if it is better to get less results rather than searching in a broader spectrum. I sometimes find, I will come across information from larger searches because random information will appear. The university search will only be appropriate to use if you can only use information from universities, but otherwise, it will limit your search, if you can use other source.

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