reasearch journal, Part 8

AltaVista is the first search tool that I tried.This particular one has boxes that you can enter what words you want to use that take the place of boolean operators, truncating, and phrases.



You can then choose what type of domain you want. .com, or only .edu, etc.
You can also choose what site you would like, as well as what file format and finally, you can filter out adult web sites


Metacrawler is set up with the same boxes for choices as AltaVista. You also can choose language and whether or not to include a domain. You can also use preferences to to set filters and bold search teerms. You can also track and search the 15 most recent searchs

Infomine, is the last one I choose. In the search tips, it shows all the different ways of fine tuning:




This is a partial list.
You can also do an advanced search options:



They also have canned_search where you can use an interactive form  to set complex query terms and search options, then generates an URL to perform it. You will find this under customize on the dark blu ribbon. You can also query by a pull-down menu by subject under customize and publications on the dark blue ribbon. Finally, at the bottom under other search tools, it gives more hints of using quotaion marks and the + and - signs. You can also hop to google, altavista, all the web and hotbot

ctec 115 part 7

After entering the original search statement 2837 documents found for: ((job or "employment") ) AND (internet) AND ((search* or look*)) is what came back. There was a box at the bottom with suggestions, so I chose Internet AND Employment. What came back was:

127 documents found for: Internet AND Employment

The first is from a scholarly journal. It is from the Black Collegian and a no nonsense article with a lot of facts. Bruce is a frequent contributor who worked for a dot-com employment firm and is a member of the Association of Internet Recruiting.

Calvin Bruce.  "The Internet: the Indispensable Tool for Job Hunting. " Black Collegian  1 Feb. 2004: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

This is another one that I found that came from a newspaper

 Jill Rachlin Marbaix.  "Job Search 2.OH!; There are some new rules of the road for searching the Web for work. " U.S. News & World Report  8 Mar. 2004: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

 Finally, I found this one from a magazine:

Calcari, Susan, and Solock, Jack. "What Color Is Your Parachute: The Net Guide / Riley Guide: Employment Opportunities and Job Resources on the Internet. " Choice  1 Jan. 1997: Research Library, ProQuest. Web.  10 Nov. 2011.

The reason I chose this article was because I thought enough people had heard of it and in the abstract it says that "Two online reference guides for job seekers and career changers are discussed" It is 30 pages which should give enough information without having to go out and get the book, a person could glean plenty of information. I would have to order it, though. I was unable to find it anywhere after checking google scholar as well as online in general. I still think it would be interesting to read.

As I mentioned before, I did change my search statement. The first search came back with far too much so I did find the suggestion box at the bottom and tried it. It worked much better, coming back with 127, which was a far more reasonable amount. I didn't feel that I needed to look at any other sites and that 127 was plenty to pick from. I would have to order a couple of these but they did seem worthy of the time and effort to do that after reading the abstracts. I feel that I have a much better understanding after doing this exercise.