1. Google, Using devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)Example: "physician assisted suicide" depression "terminally ill" search statement found 3,200 Web sites on October 2, 2004.

Answer: “Holocaust history”search statement found 5,900,000 Web site on January 30, 1933.


2. Using Google, devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses a title field search in addition to a domain search. Be specific, i.e., list the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)Example: intitle:"physician assisted suicide" site:org found 236 Web sites on October 2, 2004.

Answer: “history of the Holocaust- An Introduction”site:org found 5,900,000 Web site on January 30, 1933.

3. Did one search retrieve more relevant information than the other? If so, why? (1 point)

Answer: Yes! It’s because there are so many words that are meanningfull.

4. Did the searches retrieve other than HTML Web sites? i.e., Word or pdf documents? (1 point)

Answer: Yes!

5. Which key terms from your thesis statement retrieved the most relevant information? (1 point)

Answer: “The Holocaust”

6. Discuss the relative merits of phrase searching, Boolean AND searching and field searching. (1 point)

Answer:

7. Select one of the following Meta Search Engines. Devise a search strategy for your research statement that uses both phrase searching and the Boolean AND. Be specific, i.e., list the Meta Search Engine used, the exact search statement and indicate how many Web sites were found. (1 point)
Example: In iBoogie, "physician assisted suicide" depression "terminally ill" retrieved 107 Web sites on October 2, 2004.
Answer:

8. Were some of the same sites retrieved by Google and the Meta Search Engine? (1 point
answer:base on my searching I notice that holocaust have a many discription.

9. What differences did you notice between the results of this search and the results of the Google searches? (1 point)

answer:there are so many diff. for example the meanig of the words.

10. What impact might this have on the validity of the search results? (1 point)

answer:as for me it is verry hard, it's because there are someworsd that i can't understand.