RJA #8a: Websites

Resource searched or tool used – meta search engines – dogpile.com
Keywords used - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – keyword searches, math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight – doesn’t list how many hits on Dogpile.com;
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3

Resource searched or tool used – Search Engine – Fazzle.com
Keywords used – Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – keyword searches, math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits -Sarbanes Oxley – 1,500,000; GAAP – 1,510,000 ; recession – 4,500,000, government oversight – 7,300,000; gaap+recession – 310,000; sarbanes oxley+recession – 253,000
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 5

Resource searched or tool used - multi search engines – leapfish.com
Keywords used - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – keyword search, math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP- 22,800; Sarbanes Oxley and GAAP – 22,700; Sarbanes Oxley and Recession – 16,600; government oversight and recession – 90,400
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 5

Resource searched or tool used - directories – Odyssearch.com
Keywords used - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits - Sarbanes Oxley – 36; GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 1 – very irrelevant hits, a lot were not in English, and they were dated hits.

Resource searched or tool used – invisible web search tool – incywincy.com
Keywords used - Sarbanes Oxley, GAAP, Recession, Government oversight
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits - Sarbanes Oxley + GAAP – 1,866; Sarbanes Oxley + Recession-924; Government oversight and recession – 10,112
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 4