Reflection on Search facilities

For today's practical I did about the use of search facilities, namely the Meta search and Subject Directory.

Meta Search engines such as MetaCrawlerWeb is very useful for my reserach due to the way it works. Meta Search engines sends queries to multiple search engine and input the top few results and compile them together. This way, Meta search engine can produce a smaller range of results and yet maintain precision and accuracy of the search results. This can help to significantly shorten the time taken to locate materials for my research.

Howver, my experience with Subject Directory isn't very well at all. Firstly, my search query did not yield any viable result, all of them which are irrelevant. Thus, I prefer Meta search engines to Subject directory.

Sharing information using Wikis is a new experience for me. Before this CDS I have a brief idea of how Wikis such as the popular Wikipedia works. Basically, users can edit all the contents of Wikis, mistakes detected by users can be corrected. Additional information can be included by users to elaborate on topic.

HOWEVER, the topic I chose is EMPTY and all I see is a bloody blank page. Looks like I am the first to provide information and its up to the next batch to view and edit my work.