After learning about databases last week, I am hopeful that they will continue to be used for all research applications. I used to be afraid, very afraid, of databases after many a search turned up to not have useful information for me.
The coolest database, that we have access to at the high school, is the decades site. You can even research newspaper headlines from the paper printed on your birthday! It would make research that much easier for students who are given the task to discover what happened on the day they were born. (As if that wasn't monumental enough!)
And even though we are learning all these tricks to make our searches that much more precise, I still find myself wanting more in terms of results after a search. I realize that there is no search engine that can read my mind and find exactly what I am looking for, but perhaps someday there will be. It would be nice to type something in (such as a recipe for red velvet cake, for example) and not have to filter through all the other gobbeltygook that comes along with the search results (ex: red cake, velvet cake, red velvet, etc.) even when you do use quotation marks to keep things together.
I do have hope, though, after learning about databases that one day searching will be easier and more thorough. Thank you for instilling that hope in me!
The coolest database, that we have access to at the high school, is the decades site. You can even research newspaper headlines from the paper printed on your birthday! It would make research that much easier for students who are given the task to discover what happened on the day they were born. (As if that wasn't monumental enough!)
And even though we are learning all these tricks to make our searches that much more precise, I still find myself wanting more in terms of results after a search. I realize that there is no search engine that can read my mind and find exactly what I am looking for, but perhaps someday there will be. It would be nice to type something in (such as a recipe for red velvet cake, for example) and not have to filter through all the other gobbeltygook that comes along with the search results (ex: red cake, velvet cake, red velvet, etc.) even when you do use quotation marks to keep things together.
I do have hope, though, after learning about databases that one day searching will be easier and more thorough. Thank you for instilling that hope in me!
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You might be interested in GoogleWiki which allows you to sort and label the search results page you get on Google. You may have noticed the new icons on Google's search results page, and if you google googlewiki, you'll find a video about it. So far it is NOT reading your mind, but it does look like that is coming soon :)
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