Extra Credit Assignment #1

Research Journal Assignment #8

A. Resource searched or tool used: Cloudlet.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used: Search engine
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 368,540
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

Resource searched or tool used:Cactisearch.com
Keywords used: Holocause denial
Search strategies used: Meta & Multi Search Engines
Date of search:10/14/2009
Number of hits: 20
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 2

Resource searched or tool used:Odyssearch.com
Keywords used: Holocaust Denial
Search strategies used: Directory
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits:1 page
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 1

B. Resource searched or tool used: blogpulse.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Social media search tool
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 4219
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5) : 1

Resource searched or tool used:soovle.vom
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Other tool
Date of search:10/14/2009
Number of hits: Brings up 7 sites with different information
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 5

C. Resource searched or tool used: Blinkx.com
Keywords used: Holocaust denial
Search strategies used (including operators and types of searches): Video websites
Date of search: 10/14/2009
Number of hits: 474
Relevance of hits (on a scale of 1 to 5): 3

Research Journal Assignment #7

A. I always use google. I feel that they are pretty acurate with the topic that I need to research. I occasionally use yahoo if I want to find something different or depending on what I research.

B. The internet tool you provided me was just to find, tag, rate, and share websites it didn't really help me with my topic at all.

C. I honestly have no idea what I should do for my field research. Its hard to really do any of the options because of my topic.