Research Journal Assignment #8

RJA #8a: Websites

Search Engines: cloudlet
Key Words Used: music industry piracy
Strategies: I searched the tag cloud at the top looking mainly at the larger/bolder tags
Date of Search: 10/9/09
Hits: 374,717
Relevance: 4

Meta and Multi Search Engines: metacca
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: I adjusted the timeout to 1 second and adjusted the "page modified" dropdown menu to show all pages modified in the last month. sorted by relevance
Hits: 105
Relevance: 2.5

Directories: Wow
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: set it to only show resources. looked at some of them but they weren't that great
Hits: 1180
Relevance: 1

Invisible Engines: Deep Peep
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: none
Date of Search: 10/10/09
Hits: 0
Relevance: 0


RJA #8b: Social Media
blogged.com
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: look at blogs, not just posts
Date of Search: 10/10/09
Hits: 24863
Relevance: some were very relevant but some were totally off. 3

google blog search
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: show past month
Date of Search: 10/10/09
Hits: 5509
Relevance: 3.5

RJA #8c: Multimedia

blinkx
Key Words Used: music industry internet piracy
Strategies: none, the first search brought up some interesting videos that were quite relevant
Date of Search: 10/11/09
Hits: 1251
Relevance: 4.5