DataBases Reflection

9/25/13

My experience with these databases if that they are confusing. Unless you know the website by heart, it takes a while to get use to the website and find out what's it's about. At the start of class, I didn't really know much about databases. I just knew that there were websites for information. I never really used one except for today. Before today, I had no idea how to work with a database. And now I can work about a database a little bit more. Also before class, I didn't fully understand what a database was and now I completely understand what one is. Over all this day has been very helpful!

http://go.galegroup.com/ps/dispBasicSearch.do?prodId=AONE&userGroupName=mlin_m_westonhs

That link above is a link to one of the any databases I looked at today!

And the picture above is a screenshot of one of my database's home screen pages! 

Search Tips and Engines

Group One: 

-bing is similar to google 
-instagrook has videos 
-and is slow 

Group Two: 

-Magportal is organizing main topics and sub topics 
-google books is fast 
-sweet search is overall good 

Group Three: 

-DuckDuck Go not very helpful for academics 
-RefSeek not easy to use 
-Goonu Learning is very fast and has a lot of good websites 

Group Four: 

-use friendly words, more specific words 
-search with an exact phrase 
-find related pages 

Group Five: 
-currency, math, and time 

Group Six: 
-examine public data 
-getting world news
-researching health conditions 

A Google A Day Search 9/13/13

I choose the third question: In the late 1800's ladies were given a red rose at a fashionable Louisville Derby party, resulting in the flower’s adoption as part of what race’s official logo? So when I was searching for the answer, I typed into red rose derby party in google images. I found that the symbol was at the Kentucky Derby. So I kept looking into it to make sure my answer was right by typing into google: Kentucky Derby Symbols. And I got that website above which confirmed my answer.