Module 4 Task Organising Search Information

Golden Re-treival

Three of the best sources I found for my Netiquette concept were:

1. Shea, V (1994) Netiquette. Albion.com, United States. Retrieved July 28, 2008 from Intute database. http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/cgi-bin/fullrecord.pl?handle=sosig988195417-18634

2. Lex Networkia, Understanding the Internet Community. Valauskas, E.J., (1996, July 8) Lex Networkia, Understanding the Internet Community. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Library Association, New York. Retrieved 1 August, 2008, from http://www.firstmonday.dk http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4/valauskas/

3. Nord, Y. (2008). Minding Your Ps And Qs.Book Review of Send: The Essential Guide to Email for Office and Home
Retrieved July 24, 2008 from http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/minding-your-ps-and

I recorded this information in several ways:

• I bookmarked these sources using deli.cio.us and used very specific tags to jog my memory for future reference.(I have found the more tags I use, the easier it is to find again).


• I also printed out the article from First Monday (twofold reasons; 1. So I could read it on the train and 2. so I had a copy I could mark up and keep)
  I also referenced the sources for my Concepts assignment, taking care to record the specific URLs.


• I did not take screenshots at the time of discovery (as I don’t think this is an effective way to capture details about these particular resources).

For my uni courses, I have developed a folder system and for NET 11, keep an electronic folder (which I back up regularly) for each of the Module task sets and assignments (drafts and finals), so have saved this information in these.

I also keep a real folder for printouts and collected reference sources; magazine or newspaper articles, or printouts of peer-reviewed journals. In this way, I can use multiple ways of finding the information, as I may need to access information in different contexts (eg read on the train, quote for an assignment, re-confirm a fact).

I used tools and software such as del.icio.us, Copernic, Google and directories such as Intute, Librarians Internet Index to search for information.

Module 4 tasks - Internet search 2 Google vs. Meta search

Seek and you *might* find...

Firstly, Copernic asked me if I meant etiquette?

Did you mean: etiquette?
Search Results 1 - 20 of 69 for "netiquette"
There were only 69 results.

The first 5 results were from yahoo ads : (

1. Finishing School for Business Success
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Sponsored by: www.gloriastarr.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]

2. Free Emoticons
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Sponsored by: www.cursormania.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]

3. Download Free Emoticons
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Sponsored by: www.sweetim.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]

4. Be a Professional Etiquette Consultant
Get paid to give advice on manners and etiquette. Book shows you how.
Sponsored by: www.fabjob.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]

5. Let Our Technician Kill S.P.A.M. Dead
Our Live Online Technicians Solve All your E-Mail Problems. $1.35 Min.
Sponsored by: www.hermes-computers.ca [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]


Disappointing!


By contrast, the first 5 ‘hits’ on Google search were:

Netiquette Home Page -- A Service of Albion.com
This page is dedicated to the topic of network etiquette.www.albion.com/netiquette/ - 10k - Cached - Similar pages

The Core Rules of Netiquette -- Excerpted from Netiquette by ...
The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule for elaboration. ...www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html - 8k - Cached - Similar pagesMore results from www.albion.com »

Netiquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Netiquette, a portmanteau of "network etiquette", is the convention on electronic forums (Usenet, mailing lists, live chat, and Internet forums) to ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette - 35k - Cached - Similar pages

Internet Netiquette
Gives a summary of the important points of e-mail, mailing list, USENET, and chat etiquette.www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm - 6k - Cached - Similar pages

Email Etiquette (Netiquette)
David Tuffley, ICT, Griffith Univ. Australia. A general guide for writing and sending email. Email that does not irritate and/offend the recipient is more ...www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm - 14k - Cached - Similar pages

I was surprised that on Copernic that there were so many ads. Google, on first glance gave much more promising results.

I tried Copernic another time and enabled all 13 available search engines.

The Copernic agent this time supplied 98 results, however, of the first 5 results, there were 2 ads, the first non-sponsored link was for Wikipedia, then 2 results for Albion (the publishers of the book Netiquette).

To explore further, I also performed searches using databases such as Intute and Librarian's Internet Index and found relevant results (some of which were replicated on Google) - but no advertising!

Module 4 Tasks – Internet search 1

U-SERP-ed?

Google is my most commonly used internet search engine.

I chose to search with the term “netiquette” for research my assignment.

The first result on the serp was http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

‘Learn Netiquette basics by reading this concise overview of network etiquette excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Shea's "Core Rules" are the classic introduction to the subject and are widely cited in cyberspace.’

Results 1 - 10 of about 10,600,000 for netiquette [definition]. (0.09 seconds)