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WWWVL Review

WWW Virtual Library Project Review
The website has been around since 1991 at CERN inGeneva, and is always recently updated, as it showed on towards the bottom of the screen. The last update it received wasMarch 2, 2008. It is ran by Tim Berners- Lee, the creator of HMTL and it is the oldest catalogue of the Web.at CERN in Geneva. It is also ran by various other maintainers that focus on their own page, making a large chain of people working together to keep the website functioning.

website address: http://vlib.org/

Strenghts:
  • The website is informative and easy to navigate
  • It provides a variety of databases in numerous amounts of topics
  • There aren't excessive links to other "kind of related" websites on the sides of the webpage
  • The results that came back were informative
Weaknesses:
  • Provides a bit too much information to go through
  • Some information wasn't exactly what I was looking for

      Basic Searching:
      • It works when you do search engine math and Boolean. You are able to get a decent amount of pages when entering in phrases and such.

      Advance Search:
      • To go into the advance search you can enter what sort of document type you are looking for
      • pick the option of exact word forms
      • you have the option of the output format and synonyms
      • it is not case sensitive

      Field Searching:

      • many of the items that I used to search for topics came back in organized items with specific words highlighted in yellow according to keywords.

      Stop Words:
      • WWW Virtual Library searches most phrases with quotations and regular + and - signs but comes up with very detached results that contain sentences with the world "and".

      Sorting:
      • Results are sorted by relevency

      Overall Evaluation:
      This search engine was informative, user friendly and able to pull up some information about the topic that I was looking for. If I was going to rate this wesite from 1-10 I would have to say that it's probably a 7 because the site didn't give as many pages of results as I would have liked. However, the website still produces enough options for someone to find at least some useful information for your research.


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              ProfessorClark Web Directories 0 Mar 15 2008, 12:55 PM EDT by ProfessorClark
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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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