LIS4361 Assignment 2

The Google Advanced Search form is here: http://www.google.com/advanced_search .

Yahoo Advanced Search form is here: http://search.yahoo.com/web/advanced?ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501

You may also want to look at: http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/

1. Search Google for a PowerPoint presentation from the government of Mexico containing the words immigration and border.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

c) paste the result set into your homework answer.

2. Do the same search with Yahoo.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

c) paste the result set into your homework answer.

3. Do the same search with Bing.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

c) paste the result set into your homework answer.

4. Search Google for Excel spreadsheets posted on the DU Web site.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

5. Do the same search with Yahoo.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

c) Why does Yahoo give erratic results? Can you figure out how to get around this problem?

6. Do the same search with Bing.

a) give your search string

b) Note the number of results

7. Bing has some advanced search capabilities (http://onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/ff808421.aspx). Design some diagnostic tests for each of these search options to show that they work as advertised (or not!).

8. RefWorks: Read the RefWorks Tutorial from Penrose, as well as the Flash tutorial from RefWorks.

Sign up for your personal account RefWorks account, and tell me that you have done so.

NOTE: Off-campus users need to know and use the University of Denver group code: RWUdenver