Monday, September 14, 2009

RJA# 4b: Writing Search Strings

What was the main cause of the Housing Market Crash AND Bubble Burst AND Collapse

What was the cheif AND core cause for the HousingMarket Crash

What was the main cause in the Housing Market Crash OR Bubble OR Collapse

Economy AND housing NEAR crash
Economy AND housing NEAR Bubble burst

Economy AND housing market crash OR collapse

Economy + housing market

Economy + housing market crash -Depression

3 comments:

  1. These Search Strings look good. I like how you did the -Depression. I might just advise you to add the word Great in front of Depression to really clue the search engine into what exact Depression you are not looking for and maybe even the years of the Great Depression like we talked about in class. And the top three search questions are good questions but can be a little wordy and a lot of search engines don't return exact results if a question is put in there so maybe you can find a way to turn those questions into statements and allow the search engine to pull up the results you need to answer the questions you are posing. For example: Cause AND Housing Market Crash OR Collapse might work a little more efficiently. All in all, well done

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  2. I think that you have very good search strings. I liked that you used AND/OR in your strings because it really helps to narrow down the search.

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  3. I like your search strings they look good. That is good that you took out Depression to really make it clear. The search strings that have a lot of words in them can be a little confusing. So maybe you can shorten them to get better results. But besides this I think you will get back good results.

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