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WWWVL Review (Web Dictionaries)
Mar 4 2008, 12:15 AM EST 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 * 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 * 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". 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. 1 out of 1 found this valuable. Do you? |
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