Wednesday, March 10, 2010

RJA #6a

Resource searched or tool used: Bing Search engine
Keywords used: Uranium Mining and Colorado Plateau
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Used bolean with operator: and
Date of search 8 March 2010
Number of hits: 62,600
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): The first few hits were a number 5, As the list goes on the relevance drops.

Resource searched or tool used: wolfram alpha
Keywords used: Uranium, I tryed to use other keywords but it couldn't compute the request.
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): I was unable to use anything other then Uranium due to the way this site works.
Date of search:8 March 2010
Number of hits: 1
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): This site gave me everything I need to know about Uranium in a technical sense. There for this was a good 5 on relevance.

Resource searched or tool used: Atnio
Keywords used: Uranium Mining and Colorado Plateau
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Bolean
Date of search: 9 March 2010
Number of hits 60
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): As a whole the sites listed where hit or miss. Some of the sites deal with the excat topic but others only had half of the keywords used. So I would list this as a 3 on the relevance scale.
As far as the invisible wed search I had a great deal of trouble getting them to work for me. I was searching on one site and it ended up closeing out all my internet windows. Others just didn't seem to work for me.

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