Tuesday, January 13, 2009'

Invisible Web (Databases)

Today I have learned another Internet search facility, Invisible Web.
Databases are test pages, files or other often high-quality authoritative infromation availiable via the world wide web that you can not find using general web search engines due to the search engines dynamically generated pages of little value beyond single use or sometimes pages deliberately excluded by their owners.

I can't say that databases are effective than other search facilities such as search engines, meta-search and subject directories. Sometimes databases might be more effective in research of certain topic you want to search on. But for my reseach topic I found it quite hard to find related information.

At first, I was expecting to get more related information than before since it's databases. However I'm quite disappotinted with the results. I did not managed to get much information regarding to my reseach topic.

I tried to use all the key words to search using databases like what I did when using other search facilities, but I found I could not able to find any results. So I cut down my key words to search again and finally I get a few relevant resources for my research topic.


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Although I was not able to find as much as information as I thought before, I will still consider to use databases for research in my study. As the information found is reliable and up-to-date.
I think it's quite helpful to use different search facilities to do research. The reason why I couldn't find much information using databases is possibly because there isn't much information on the topic I choose to research. But I believe it will be helpful if I have research need to do in future. I'm doing research for my module material and process recently, so I think the practical worksheets I did will be helpful to my research.