Practical 3 was a fairly simple exercise as it was aimed to polish and evaluate our internet understanding and how effectively we used online search engines. Given our research topics, mine being 'trends of spending habits of youth', we had to enter our respective queries into our chosen search engine. As explained in the previous post, I have been using Google whenever I had any research to do.
The class was taught alternative and more efficient ways of entering our search queries, which also meant they were more complicating and troublesome. As the saying goes, ''there's no such thing as a free lunch'', working harder only makes sense when you desire to obtain greater results. The main idea is to find an alternative word with the same meaning, for example, 'youth' has the same meaning as 'adolescence', accompanied by a couple of mandatory commands and you'll be on your way to your requested search results. e.g. Trends of spending habits of youth = (trends OR direction*) AND (spending OR squandering*) AND (habit OR manner*) AND (youth OR adolescence*)
I appreciate what I've learnt from this practical as it is skills like this that we can apply and use in our daily lives, not some useless junk that we're forced to learn, knowing we'd totally forget about it the next day and never use ever again.The class was taught alternative and more efficient ways of entering our search queries, which also meant they were more complicating and troublesome. As the saying goes, ''there's no such thing as a free lunch'', working harder only makes sense when you desire to obtain greater results. The main idea is to find an alternative word with the same meaning, for example, 'youth' has the same meaning as 'adolescence', accompanied by a couple of mandatory commands and you'll be on your way to your requested search results. e.g. Trends of spending habits of youth = (trends OR direction*) AND (spending OR squandering*) AND (habit OR manner*) AND (youth OR adolescence*)
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