This week's learning process began with a rather shocking discovery for me; there is a whole world of search engines besides Google. I knew a couple more like Yahoo, Bing or Altavista but I didn’t know there were so many types of search engines, further more I never imagined that any of them would be as good if not better than Google.
I started the search task a little skeptical but as I mentioned in my first post in the Nicenet discussion, is not that Google is so good that no other engine can beat it, I am just used to Google. However, now that I know what’s out there I feel like I am going to become a cheater: SweetSearch reaaly got me. I am finally ready to admit that in terms of academic topics Google is just not enough not even its scholar site.
But not only SweetSearch surprised me in a good way, I also learned (watching TV –Clicks on BBC) about an alternative search engine that is supposed to be the future: Qwiki.com (See http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/103861/20110122/what-is-qwiki-is-it-the-next-google-video.htm).
All in all, this has been a very interesting week and I am looking forward to see what we are going to learn in week 3.
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