Prior to searching the ProQuest database one must take some things into consideration in order to get the best retrievals possible for your informational needs. While searching on most databases patrons are allowed to use subject and keyword searches. “Natural language is the language people speak and write” (Chu 53). It is language that individuals use on a daily basis as opposed to programmed language. It is more common for individuals to use search terms of a natural language to search for items within the database. Chu states, that “Natural language allows the highest degree of specificity and flexibility in representing and retrieving information” (17).
When conducting any type of search ProQuest looks for what you enter in the search box and will search for any available abstract or full text or all documents in all selected databases. Whatever search term you type in even if spelled incorrectly you may ask yourself if the database will be able to still accurately interpret the intended search term and conduct an effective search if one or more of the search terms are spelled incorrectly? A test was conducted using the search term Mozart due to it being a common term that the database would be able to detect. When conducting the basic search of the correct spelling of the word Mozart in the search box ProQuest
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In several cases, even when using terms that are very close to the actual search term, little to no search results were produced. ProQuest does provide suggestions to help improve your search giving users related search terms to help find what you are looking for as you enter the search term in the search box. ProQuest benefits users who may or may not know exactly what they are in search of when finding articles and e-books by providing a great selection to choose
The two keywords that I used for my simple Good search was “expensive public colleges”. There were a bunch of results that popped up that had a large amount of information involving expensive colleges. The number results that I had was about 95,500,000. In my second search I included site:.gov to my keywords. This time the amount of results that popped up wasn’t as much as the previous search. Adding the .gov to my keywords gave me only sites that were governmental. The number of results I got was 1,500,00. In this search I got more pdf files and documents that contained information about expensive colleges. In Search 3 my search was “expensive college -USA”. To my surprise this actually increases the amount of results I got from Search 2.
search engine will then search the world wide web for information relevant to the keywords or
When we went to the visit the library as a class, I apprehended valuable information that I may need for my research project and annotated bibliography. Attending the library allowed me to experience the database system and meet one of our librarians on campus. It made me feel really comfortable because of how nice the librarian was and how she was very helpful. While our class was there, I learned how to format my research question, learned how to explore the UC Merced database, and how to create the direction for my research question. All of this new acquired information will help me at the end when I am doing my final assignments and connecting my research question.
Spotlight has been fine-tuned by Apple: it is smarter and more responsive. Though you can't order it around like Siri, it now sports natural language search: in a nutshell, this allows you to search for anything on Spotlight by typing in a conversational manner, like putting in "the word document I worked on last Tuesday".
Through the methodology proposed, we aspire to achieve a more efficient technology for generating keywords and finding more accurate data from the search engine. By saving physical memory and storing only what is important rather than all the data from a random website. Also, due to this we may achieve faster response time. So, here we can conclude that the proposed system may be more better than the previous systems
The search I would conduct is the use of the search engine Google. Google has always been reliable and sufficient information for me. Most sites are east to go through if you watch your domains. The sites I tend to use are factual and informational. My search terms would include the nature of the content. Key words are widely used to narrow down a search. To help pin point the sight you need. I use key words to help weed out the ads and riff raff.
There are many challenges that I am facing while searching data using the online Olivet library. I am using the Boolean operators, which are “used in electronic databases and other search engines to define the relationships between keywords or phrases” (Bui, 2014, p. 59).
As information is also know to come a lot via search engine queries, it might be quite important to learn to refine your search method. For example, in cases of choosing a suitable branded products for my merchandised apparels, I've learned to make use of dedicated product search portals like ASIcentral or ZoomCatalog in order to run some keyword or advanced searches, or apply filters (like price) - this way I can find a large variation of the best products at the best prices.
without result, they wonder again what is wrong?! More often search methods are not the
The issue with this is that in order for searches to occur, we have to ensure that they are
However, EBSCOhost does not provide the option to the researcher for searching related and suggested information for a certain keyword which is a crucial limitation for them as every researcher prefers to get the option of searching for related researches. The search results contain relevant information and materials but the quantity is significantly low. The one-click citation option for individual research material is missing which may be annoying to the academic researchers at certain times. The database search of ProQuest is more efficient than EBSCOhost in all these respects but it is not free from limitations. As the number of materials in the search results is relatively more, the researcher has to efficiently sort the results to find the relevant information. This is quite difficult for me or anyone too in the results page. The option of full-text view is missing in some of the materials, which is not observed in the EBSCOhost search results.
While doing some of my research, I chose to use Computer Source as my database. The main subject of the database was trends in technology. It allowed me to search trends from any time which was particularly helpful for my topic. The type of search that can be completed using this database is Boolean searching. This type of searching style came in handy because the information I was searching for involved the cyber world, so it made it easier to differentiate which aspect of the cyber world I was researching. For example, differentiating between Cyber Terrorism and Terrorism or Cyber Warfare. Computer Source lets its users search by publication date rather than by scholarship level. Computer Source also showed similarities with Academic Search Complete in that they shared similar fields. But after conducting similar searches, Computer Source provided me with more relevant information. Overall, my search results were more refined and
ProQuest is a database that offers a variety of options in completing a search. A researcher can select to do a basic search, an
Competition in the search industry is high. There are several search engines available, albeit Google holds the top percentage. Some of Google’s opposing forces are Yahoo!, Bing, and MSN search. The strongest is competitive rivalry and the weakest is buyer power. There is a big rivalry amongst search engines in gaining the newest advances and best technology to suit the customer. Buyer power is weak because there is no substitute for an online search engine. You could use an encyclopedia or something of that nature, but with online search engines,
Search result snippet – this is one of your first considerations. You need to ask yourself, is the search