Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Today I learnt that google uses an algorithm called PageRank to rank all it's search results according to relavance and inportance.
I must say that i am highly impressed with PageRank as I find it highly effective in doing its job.
Also google has one of the largest databases as compared to the other search engines.
This means that doing reseach in Google may yield more results.


I have also participated in an online discussing forum reguarding euthanasia.
It can be helpful to my research as people with experience with this topic may actually come forward to share their experiences.
However, the credibility of the person sharing the information must also be questioned as I do not know him/her personally.
Talking to others in the forum may feel a little weird at first as they are all strangers.
However I find that many of them are pretty nice and helpful, although there were a couple of them who did not contribute much.

I also tried to do citations an bibliographies.
This enables us to state the real source of where we got our research information from.
Also this is a good way to credit the authors for their work.