Hi everyone
In this short post I will talk about my
experience with research tools, I will also compare between Wikipedia and
Google scholar, the sites that I tried during this week task.
During the past 3 years as a student and
even earlier, whenever I wanted to look for info on the internet I went
straight to Google to see what type of knowledge I can use. Google was my
default search engine since everybody used it and ranks the search results
according specific criteria, but also according the rank of popularity and
traffic into site.
1. Google Scholar – as I mentioned before,
Google tends to rank the search results according popularity and sometimes
according relevancy, which can cause us (students) to massive waste of time. Google
Scholar, on the other hand give us the access to search and learn from full
version academic researches that are prioritized according to Google. In Google
scholar each article/ research/ document as the details of: date of publis, where
it was published, name of the writer plus how often and how recently it has
been cited in other academic literature and other sources. Google scholar provides
searches for articles, books, abstracts from academic publishers, professional
societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Another
benefit in Google scholar is that some of the sources that you will find on
Google scholar are also available to download
2. Wikipedia was my favorite online
encyclopedia as a kid, Wikipedia is so popular since it is the first online
social encyclopedia that is free and easy to use. I thins that Wikipedia became
so big and succeeded where all the others failed (ex: Encarta)
since it is social nonprofit encyclopedia and everyone can write/ edit wikis. Since
it is public and everybody can share their knowledge, it is also the reason the
Wikipedia doesn’t consider as a reliable academic source.
How Wikipedia
works? It allows a group of people to
write and edit together parts of text – ערך.These parts of text can be can be edited
by other users who entered the wiki. Meaning: every user on Wikipedia can edit any wiki
(after approval of admin). Ex: I'm selling beauty product in my EBay store, I
wanted to promote my product so I wrote a wiki about facial treatment and add
the link of this product as an example in the references of the wiki.
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