Friday, October 9, 2009
Internet Research Project
I am using Kartoo, www.kartoo.com. It is a Meta search engine, which means it sends a search request to several other search engines, and then compiles the results in a list on its website. The strengths I see on the website are easy to manipulate “options” and the search results display. The options feature allows me to customize the website a little bit. There is a “sidebar” feature that will show information that is relevant to my search, and in the options section, I can change that sidebar feature to show several different things, from search trends, news, topics, and images, to games. I can also apply parental locks and change the layout of results on the options page. The display of the search results is also a strength of this website. The results can be laid out in several different ways, and the one I like the best is 3 results to a page, because it allows for easy scanning without being overwhelmed with information. The weaknesses I see on this site are that in the option screen there are empty buttons that don’t do anything. It appears that the site is a work in progress, and although it doesn’t affect the search results it is distracting. The search results support keyword and math searches, and are not case sensitive. When I was doing test searches, one of the results actually brought up my blog, but it didn’t display my blog image, so that is a limitation I found. There isn’t a way to sort the information, only change the display layout.
RJA #8c: Multimedia
Resource searched or tool used – Blinkx.com
Keywords used – government oversight, gaap, Sarbanes oxley, recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) - keyword search and math
Date of search – October 9, 2009
Number of hits – government oversight – 985; sarbanes oxley + recession – 84; government oversight + recession – 1,089
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Resource searched or tool used – videosurf.com
Keywords used - government oversight, gaap, Sarbanes oxley, recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) - keyword search and math
Date of search – October 9, 2009
Number of hits –government oversight and recession – 213, Sarbanes oxley and recession - 12
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Keywords used – government oversight, gaap, Sarbanes oxley, recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) - keyword search and math
Date of search – October 9, 2009
Number of hits – government oversight – 985; sarbanes oxley + recession – 84; government oversight + recession – 1,089
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Resource searched or tool used – videosurf.com
Keywords used - government oversight, gaap, Sarbanes oxley, recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) - keyword search and math
Date of search – October 9, 2009
Number of hits –government oversight and recession – 213, Sarbanes oxley and recession - 12
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Thursday, October 8, 2009
RJA #8b: Social Media
Resource searched or tool used –blogpulse.com
Keywords used – GAAP, Government oversight, Sarbanes Oxley, Recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits – gaap + recession – 189; sarbanes oxley + recession – 172;
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Resource searched or tool used – twingly.com
Keywords used - GAAP, Government oversight, Sarbanes Oxley, Recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits – Sarbanes oxley and recession – 342;
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 1
Keywords used – GAAP, Government oversight, Sarbanes Oxley, Recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits – gaap + recession – 189; sarbanes oxley + recession – 172;
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 3
Resource searched or tool used – twingly.com
Keywords used - GAAP, Government oversight, Sarbanes Oxley, Recession
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) keyword search and math
Date of search – October 8, 2009
Number of hits – Sarbanes oxley and recession – 342;
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) 1
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
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
Monday, October 5, 2009
RJA #7c: Field Research Plan
To conduct field research for my topic, I will try to interview the professor’s at Metro’s Business department, and the facilitators at Regis University. I am also going to try to interview people who work in the accounting field.
I will ask each of them the same questions: What do you hypothesis caused the recession we are in now?; did the lack of standardized accounting practices cause deception in the financial industry, which caused financial records to reflect assets and profits that weren’t there?; do you think the changes in banking deregulations cause the situation?; do you think the accounting practice of Market it to Market influenced the financial records of mortgage companies to reflect false profit?; when do you think the downward spiral toward a recession first started, and was there a “beginning” point or was it a culmination of events and practices that caused the recession?; do you believe the new accounting practices will stabilize the economy?
I will ask each of them the same questions: What do you hypothesis caused the recession we are in now?; did the lack of standardized accounting practices cause deception in the financial industry, which caused financial records to reflect assets and profits that weren’t there?; do you think the changes in banking deregulations cause the situation?; do you think the accounting practice of Market it to Market influenced the financial records of mortgage companies to reflect false profit?; when do you think the downward spiral toward a recession first started, and was there a “beginning” point or was it a culmination of events and practices that caused the recession?; do you believe the new accounting practices will stabilize the economy?
RJA #7b: Internet Research Tool Test
Resource searched - KartOO
Keywords used - GAAP changes
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – English Web
Date of search – 10/5/09
Number of hits – several, I stopped counting after 15
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) – 5 (very relevant)
Resource searched - KartOO
Keywords used - Government Oversight of Banks
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – English Web
Date of search – 10/5/09
Number of hits – several, I stopped counting after 15
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) – 5 (very relevant)
Keywords used - GAAP changes
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – English Web
Date of search – 10/5/09
Number of hits – several, I stopped counting after 15
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) – 5 (very relevant)
Resource searched - KartOO
Keywords used - Government Oversight of Banks
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches) – English Web
Date of search – 10/5/09
Number of hits – several, I stopped counting after 15
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) – 5 (very relevant)
RJA #7a: Internet Research Tools
I used to use google.com as my favorite search engine. Then my old computer crashed, and I purchased a new computer that had Bing.com as its search engine. I love it! I can hold my mouse over the list of search results and can scan the articles for relevant information before I open them. And there are daily quizzes that I really enjoy clicking on. I still have igoogle as my home page when I load internet explorer, though, because I like being able to personalize my home page. My ISP Comcast used to have a nice home page, and I would use the news links for research, but they changed their home page format and I found it wasn’t as user friendly for searching.
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