Starter For Ten's Net34 Blog

I read the "Boolean Searching on the Internet" text as directed. I then tried my same keywords (anxiety disorder) to find:
- the biggest number of hits relating to those keywords

I used Google to do this, as I am most comfortable using this site. What I actually wanted to find was anxiety disorder symptoms. The biggest number of hits was when I searched anxiety OR disorder OR symptoms - this resulted in 173,000,000 hits! Other results were:

anxiety* = 49,100,000

anxiety AND disorder AND symptoms = 18,900,000

anxiety disorder = 11,700,000

anxiety NOT disorder 8,040,000

I'm not sure how well Boolean search terms work in Google, so I tried Windows Live as well.

anxiety OR disorder OR symptoms = 52,000,000

anxiety AND disorder AND symptoms = 21,400,000

anxiety disorder = 23,400,000

anxiety NOT disorder = 29,200,000

Using OR certainly increases the number of hits!

I tried to find out how to get information only from university sources. I had a look at GOLD and typed in anxiety disorder, but it only brought up seven results.

I then used copernic and searched "university databases" this brought up a long list of databases, but the ones I looked at required a student or staff id log in. I did use the Curtin Library database search, and the term 'anxiety disorder' brought back one result. I did do a search in Google Scholar, this resulted in 1,300,000 hits. This is something I am going to have to research further, but for now if I had to search information only coming from university sources, then I would use the Curtin database resource, or Murdoch university (as I am enrolled in a module there).

Last night I downloaded 'Web Copier', but I didn't like this program at all. For a start, the sample page I downloaded took over 4 minutes to save. A few weeks ago I did set up a 'delicious' account, but I haven't used it.

I have a bit of a system for saving information, and it works for me! I just save pages to "Favourites" in internet explorer. I have set up folders and sub folders and just save pages there. I often re-name the page so that I can recall it easily.

I recorded the different searches for the other task in this module by capturing the screen (Shift + Print Screen button) and then saving it in Paint. Another method of saving information that I use is to cut and paste sections of text that I require from a page into a word document. Again, I have a system of folders and I find this system works well for me at the moment.

I plan to use copernic to find everything! Apparently the search function in this program works well in searching on the computer as well as on the web. I am going to set aside some time over the next few days to try and find a bookmark program I am happy with. Another student on the discussion board mentioned that they use Endnote, so I'm in the process of downloading a 30 day free trial for that. The problem is time - not downloading time, but time in learning each new program!