Thursday, July 31, 2008

Week 6 Exercise 14

Running searches in different modes definitely gave different results. Searching in posts gave way too many results and very non specific – most just containing one or two words of match. When I used quotation marks in posts I only got 2 results. Using the quotation marks I go no results in blogs, 2 in photos, and 20 in videos. That was unexpected. Who knew that there would be more videos than any other type.
Tagging is a great way to limit searches – something like power googling. Of course, you’re at the mercy of others’ descriptive powers…

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