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 1).....For my Topic Idea I decided to do Chinese food or cooking. The first search method was a Boolean search using the search engine Boolify. It was a pretty cool website. I liked how it was set up; you could move keywords and set them up like puzzle pieces. At the bottom the results came up, they were pretty good results too. It definitely helped filter out the garbage that most search engines give us. It also displays some of the major websites like Wikipedia. When I tried to search on Destiny I didn't get anything as specific Chinese food or cooking, I did find books about cooking that had a bit of information on Chinese food. I prefer the Boolean search engine Boolify because it gives you a narrow and more helpful list of websites. The thing about Boolify is that you have to be familiar with Boolean searches. If you don't know the difference between AND and OR then things could get a bit confusing.

2).....NC wise owl wasn’t the most helpful resource, it isn’t really popular either. It supported Boolean search so I typed in the keywords Chinese food or cooking, but a lot of random results came up. Some of the results consisted of having the best Thanksgiving dinner, Cooking with Lucy, and Baking holiday snacks. They obviously didn’t have anything to do with Chinese food or cooking, I honestly don’t even know where they got them from. I think it just doesn’t have updated information. Maybe if they updated the site more often they would be more helpful and have better links of information.

3).....Most students use Google in everyday class to search for information. Google is probably the most popular used search engine on the internet. Google can be a useful site if you know how to use it. It can also be used as a Boolean search engine. Google gives thousands of results but in all these there is a lot of garbage. Most of the sites it sends you to aren't really helpful. It's an alright site. When I searched for Chinese food and cooking most of the results were local and random Chinese restaurants, they didn't really help get me websites for my research. Of course it did have some useful links that had decent information.

4)…..In the end out of all the three searches I did, my personal favorite was Boolify. It gave me the best results out of the three. NC wise owl wasn’t very helpful, it’s more helpful to people that are looking for a broader topic, it’s not very helpful if you’re trying to be more specific. It gave me irrelevant results that had nothing to do with Chinese cooking. Google was also really helpful; the only problem was that it gave me some really random unhelpful results. It has a lot of ads and probably doesn’t have the most trustworthy information. Boolify gave me similar results to those of Google, only with a narrowed result list that had more valid information. If you are looking for more cut down and helpful result then I’d probably stick to Boolify.   Book talks :D   Glogster  media type="custom" key="7550589" align="center"

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