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The Internet Scout Project
The search site had operated since 1994. It is part of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Scout accesses content from specialists and “world-class array of computer science and library resources”. The Scout Project is supported by The National Science Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Computer Sciences Department.
http://scout.wisc.edu/index.php
Strengths:
Basic Searching: It supports both Search Engine Math and Boolean. You can specify phases by “quoting”. In the It is not case sensitive. It also doesn’t check spelling. It doesn’t give suggestions that might yield more results.
Advance Search: in the advance search option you can choose from the publication year to the article name, author, or publisher.
Field Searching: Most of the files it brought back were PDF.
Overall Opinion: I wasn’t really happy with this search engine. When I typed in “multiple Sclerosis” it brought back only 2 results. (Yahoo! brought back 33.4 million) One of the pages it suggested was not available, but they page it did find was helpful. I was very surprised because it’s sponsored by the National Science Foundation, so I figured it would have many results especially in this field. I will stick with a bigger search engine like Google or Yahoo!. The Scout searches are probably helpful if you have a broader medical subject with a need for publications, or case studies.
The search site had operated since 1994. It is part of the University of Wisconsin in Madison. Scout accesses content from specialists and “world-class array of computer science and library resources”. The Scout Project is supported by The National Science Foundation, Microsoft Corporation, and the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Computer Sciences Department.
http://scout.wisc.edu/index.php
Strengths:
- The pages it finds are specified
- Great way to find Free publications
- Little commercial advertising
- I brings back little results
- Some results were old
- Not very well known
Basic Searching: It supports both Search Engine Math and Boolean. You can specify phases by “quoting”. In the It is not case sensitive. It also doesn’t check spelling. It doesn’t give suggestions that might yield more results.
Advance Search: in the advance search option you can choose from the publication year to the article name, author, or publisher.
Field Searching: Most of the files it brought back were PDF.
Overall Opinion: I wasn’t really happy with this search engine. When I typed in “multiple Sclerosis” it brought back only 2 results. (Yahoo! brought back 33.4 million) One of the pages it suggested was not available, but they page it did find was helpful. I was very surprised because it’s sponsored by the National Science Foundation, so I figured it would have many results especially in this field. I will stick with a bigger search engine like Google or Yahoo!. The Scout searches are probably helpful if you have a broader medical subject with a need for publications, or case studies.
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Web directories are going to give you a lot fewer hits than you'll get with a search engine, but all of the results should be relevant.
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