Research Journal Unit 8

Search Tool Used: Bing

1. automatically does AND searches, no need to put AND in.  e.g. microsoft AND computers =  microsoft computers

2. OR and NOT are still used to combine and exclude words respectively.

3. has an "instant answers" feature for instant answers.  e.g. to define a word just type "define [word]", or "how many minutes are in a day"  "solve 4x + 7 = 35".  for questions with easy fact based answers.

4. the order of the words you search affects the rseults, so put the most important words first.  e.g. treehouse vacation California returns different results than California treehouse vacation.

5. also provides related searches that may provide slightly different results  and help you find what you were looking for.  e.g. like in #4 if you search "treehouse vacation california" then "California treehouse vacation" may come up in the related searches since they have different results



Metasearch Tool Used: Yippy!

1.like bing it automatically uses AND so there is no need to put it in you search

2. is NOT case sensitive

3. you can search specific domains or site using "site:domainname" and "site:sitename" respectively.   e.g. site:edu [search phrase] to search only educational sites that end with ".edu" or  "site:clark.edu" to search for pages that are ONLY on clark.edu.

4.  unlike other search engines you can search for pages of a specific file type using "filetype:type".       e.g. searching  "filetype:pdf trees"  will only return results that are PDF pages

5.  handles OR NOT and "" as normal



Subject Directory used:  Intute

1. unlike Bing and Yippy! does not use AND by default and will change results accordingly when used

2. OR NOT and "" function normally as Boolean operators

3. you can also use a wildcard (*) for truncating

4.  advanced search lets you search by title, description or keywords, you can filter by subject (such as law or psychology) and resource type (such as news, maps, blogs or images) and country of origin, you can also display all fields or titles only and sort by relevance or alphabetically .

5. they also list their criteria for how they select results, which helps you know what may or may notso up no matter what.

"online piracy" and business



"Stopping SOPA ; Online Piracy." The Economist Jan 21 2012: 33-. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 9 Nov. 2012 .


the SOPA act is important as it is a turning point for not only piracy but the internet as a whole, regardless of whether or not it is passed. this article address the issue of whether the bill hurts innocent websites and online as a whole.




Mehar, Saghir Munir. "Megaupload; Sailing in Dangerous Waters Case of Online Piracy and Access to Free Information."Law Technology 45.2 (2012): 20-7. ProQuest Research Library. Web. 9 Nov. 2012.

the taking down of megaupload was a major event in not only online piracy but the internet as a whole, this article provides information on prosecutors argument and the business model of megaupload as well as giving a summary of the case itself.


Hamilton, Ian. "Politicians Discuss Online Piracy Bill." Orange County RegisterJan 20 2012. Western Newsstand. Web. 9 Nov. 2012 .

The recent acts for piracy are currently the major topics for this issue, many argue that they will have unintended consequences for websites who have done nothing wrong. the debate still continues and is now at its high point with the introduction of the new bills. the article helps to understand the viewpoint of why many people oppose SOPA.



at first my research statement also used the work "affect" in regards to business but i found that it narrowed the results too much and found that taking it out helped me find good articles relevant to my topic.