Week 6 RJA

For my first internet search I chose to try a different search engine. I used All the web to see if I received any new web sites as a result of my search. I actually did find a few sites that didn't pop up on bing, yahoo or google.

• All the web
• extinction, dinosaurs, comets, volcanoes
• extinction+dinosaurs, dinosaurs+volcanoes, extinction+comets
• 2/27-2/28
• There was actually over two million hits for my first search but I narrowed it down with other searches
• relevancy was 4 out of 5

For my meta search engine I used Academic index.net. I was hoping to find more scholarly journals and sites. I was not disappointed. I found many sites that I had not found previously including more scientific sites.

• Academic index.net
• extinction, dinosaurs, asteroids, volcanoes
• extinction+dinosaurs, extinction+dinosaurs+asteroids
• 2/26-2/28
• There were a large number of sites again, but I actually found an article that has changed my ideas about the time of the extinction.
• 5 out of 5

For my directory search I used Open Directory Project. I don't remember actually ever using directories prior to this but I found several great essays about my topic.

• Open Directory Project
• extinction, paleontology, dinosaurs
• extinction+dinosaurs, with a little help from the site I was able to narrow down my topic. Earth Sciences: Paleontology: Extinction: Cretaceous-Tertiary
• 2/28
• I found fourteen articles on my topic
• 5 out of 5

For my search through the invisible web, I used IncyWincy. I was never aware of the amount of information that is out there that we never see.

• IncyWincy
• extinction, dinosaurs, K-T
• extinction+dinosaurs
• 2/28
• There were over 1100 hits
• 3 out of 5

My search for social media was much more difficult. The number of sites and blogs about my topic are very limited.

• Addictomatic
• extinction, dinosaurs, paleontology
• extinction+dinosaurs+paleontology
• 2/27
• only about three hits actually had any relevancy for me\
• 1 out of 5

• Blog catalog
• dinosaurs
• dinosaurs - I actually had to broaden my search to find anything at all about dinosaurs
• 2/28
• 0 relevant blogs
• 0 out of 5

•  Icerocket
• Dinosaurs
• Dinosaurs- again broad term
• 2/28
• 0 relevant social media hits
• 0 out of 5

 For my multimedia search I found many relevant videos as well as many links to Discovery Channel, BBC, and PBS shows.

• Blinkx
• Dinosaurs, extinction
• dinosaurs+extinction
• 2/27
• 832 videos but most were aimed towards children and lacked much relevancy.
• 2 out of 5