Module Four - Boolean searching task

To get the biggest number of hits relating to the key words would require different search strategies in the Corpernic search engine. I thought changing the setting to search for any of the words rather than all of the words would bring a much larger results however was surprised by the outcome.


Looking for Educational sites only in Copernic did not wield as many results as i had hoped

Displaying results 1-10 of 55

Adding papers after internet human communication brought the following

Displaying results 1-10 of 61

Boolean searching would certainly be a far improved way of pinpointing exactly what you are looking for on the web.

Googles search engine was not as receptive to boolean commands as other engines however they do have a google scholar search engine which proved more useful.

Results 1 - 10 of about 5,090,000 for internet OR communication OR human site:.edu. (0.26 seconds)

Adding papers to this got the following:
Results 1 - 10 of about 76,100,000 for human and internet communication papers .edu. (0.42 seconds)

I also found that while trying to search for .edu sites a lot of other sites still appear. This often seems to be because the word edu is located in the sites. It also seems to draw a lot of .org and .gov sites.
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This task proved to be more difficult than I would have originally thought. I started with a search for human Internet communications. Google and Corpernic however did not provide many sources for university only sites. I have found to date that the most promising results came from alta vista using .edu as opposed to Google or Corpernic.

In reflection I can see that the more specific you are in a search the better results you will achieve. However a lot will depend on what sort of search engine you are using.