Week Ten Muddiest Thought

Will there ever be on service that catalogues all the information on the internet and becomes like Google times 100? Just wondering if it's possible to put all of the Internets information into one search engine? Kind of like a master list of all things online.

Readin Notes Eleven

This weeks first article on web crawling was a little interesting. It helped simplify somewhat, the complicated process of crawling. Without crawling we wouldnt have giants like Google or Yahoo. Also it explained spamming a little and I found it interesting that spammers send one version ot its content to search sites and entirely different content to the user. Im very much against Internet regulation, but that is just plain wrong. This in turn made me realize just how very valuable my anti-spam software is.
The second article was about the Open Archives Initiative and its attempt to improve metadata harvesting. This one was really hard to continue reading...it had good information in it but was covered up by way too much technical language. It also discussed the Digital Library Federation and if you can oversome the boredom this article offers some good insight an potential help for conducting independent research.
The last article focused on the Deep Web. Ok first off, i was blown away by the key findings expressed in the article about deep web. If those things are accurate, we have no real concept of how much information is available to us on the Internet. And fully 95% of that info is public and free! I was astounded! The section about how search engines work made it a little easier to grasp why Google misses so much information. Imagine the monster Google could truly become if they began to penetrate the deep web and not just continue scraping through the shallows of the surface web! This article was one of the best ones I've read this semester for this class. I enjoyed all the statistics and tables and was continually shocked as I realized that how much material was out there that most people have no clue exists. This article like the last one offers some great direction for accomplishing research.

Assignment Six: My Website

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Sixteenth Comment

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Fifteenth Comment

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Week Nine Muddiest Thought

If I use an online webauthoring program will I be able to 'switch' it to the school website since it is already on the web or will I only be able to link the 2 together?

Reading Notes Ten

The first digital library article about the challenges faced by them was a little interesting and a little boring. The one thing that did strike me a bit was when it said that Google scholar is the biggest rival for campus and academic search systems. This came as no real surprise to me as I constantly use Google Scholar. The 2nd article, Dewey meets Turing, was a bit better of a read for me than the first one. This article seemed to go hand in hand with what we have been discussing in Understanding Information this semester. I agree with it that the way information is being delivered and created may be changing, but the fundamentals of librarianship remain the same. The 3rd article, Institutional Repositories, explains about institutional respositories and the changes from print to digital publication. This article also discusses how digital publication benefits institutions and expounds on the changes in schloarly communication. I found this article to be pretty informative and also goes along with topics we have been discussing in other classes this semester.