EIR 4

The 4th EIR lesson was held on 24 Nov. I remember that day when I came into the lab with my friend, teacher asked us if we were in this class and if we were there for EIR. My another CDS-Japenese was after the EIR lesson and that day was my presentation day, so I am a little bit nervous , and during the EIR that day, I kept remerising the speech, which distract me a lot. So I m sorry for that. But I still did my practical_ 4&5.

In this lesson, teacher went through the lecture material with us. I learnt two more internet search facilities which were Meta search engines and Subject diretories. I 'd never heard about these two internet search facilities before, and I 'm quite curious about them.

Meta search engines transmit search terms simultaneously to several search engines. I tried MetaCrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) , and I typed my topic which is "Development of renewable energy sources in the world" on it. It displayed the results from Google, Yahoo, Bing and so on. I looked at the results, and I was not so satisfied with them. Almost all the results were just about renewable energy sources , but nothing about development. Moreover, lots of them were advertisments. So the results were not so relavent. Then I tried Kartoo(http://www.kartoo.com/). I typed the topic on it, and I am a little bit upset because what it displayed is"COMMING SOON: SORRY FOT THE INCONVENIENCE" and I didn't know what's going on...

Subject directories also known as catalogs. Topical lists arranged in hierachical way. I tried the Yahoo one.(http://dir.yahoo.com/?skw=yahoo+directory) As usual, I typed" Development of renewable sources in the world", and there were less then 500 results there. Under each result, category would be displayed. And I think it's very convient for me because sometimes I need to know what category the pages are. But the results were still not so relavent after all.