Net11 SP2 2009

"Taking the same key words of your last search (Eczema), think about how you would best search for the following:

• the biggest number of hits relating to these key words
• information most relevant to what you ACTUALLY wanted to look for!
• information coming only from university sources
• LOG ENTRY:Discuss your strategies with the class and record the exact search terms you used in your learning log " (Allen, M n.d)

Using Bing.com , Goolge.com & Ask.com as my 3 search engines. Ask.com was the first search engine I used, Google is the one I use mostly now and Bing is one that I have never used.

Firstly using "Eczema" (including the invertered commas), my largest number of hits was on Bing with 9,890,000 results, followed by Google with 6,550,000 and then Ask with 1,150,000.The top result is www.eczema.org.au

To gain information pertaining to exactly what I want: Non commercial & just the facts. I used the search terms eczema NOT commercial. The results were vaired over the three sites. I feel the most beneficial information came from Bing, it had no commercial ad/sites in the first page. Over half of the first page on Google and Ask were dedicated to paid advertisments. The second listing here was www.eczema.com.au

To gather information comming from Universities about Eczema I used the term 'Eczema AND university'. In this case, the results from google were far better, I suspect this is due to Google's 'Google Scholar' search engine. Bing had no journals or tertiary publications on the first page. Here is Googles link http://www.muschealth.com/gs/HealthTopic.aspx?action=showpage&pageid=P00008

Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 23, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d