Day 4
24th October ; Friday
Today's lesson and practical was on Meta Search Engine and Yahoo Directory. As usual, first part of the lesson was going through the PowerPoint slide. Personally I find that it is more effective going through a "live demonstration" then reading from the PowerPoint slides. -laughs-
After going through the PowerPoint slide, was doing the practical worksheet. I kinda like Metacrawler now. Though before today, I had no idea and never heard of this name. It was fun exploring new search engine, paying special attention to the functions and searching up and down for the buttons that I wanna find. Using my own topic, I was able to find relevant results and I am satisfied with it.
However, Yahoo Search Directory was an horrible experience. Sad to say, I wasn't able to find any results related to my topic. Though at different categories at the homepage was helpful, but it is isn't that great after typing my keywords. I guess the reason being it is sorted out by professionals and it is not computerised. Hence the results given was limted.
In a whole, I am glad that I got to know about Meta Search Engine; MetaCrawler. As it is like a bigger search engine searching for normal search engine (yahoo, google ...) this really save me alot of precious time.