Reflection for Day 3 Part 2

Based on what I had done in class and at home for the past few days, I will think that invisible web (database) is not more effective than other types of search facilities. In fact I did not even manage to find any result that is relevant to what I am looking for. For my topic I will still prefer to use Google Search as there are more related articles on the internet. Maybe in the future, there will be more materials related to this topic in the invisible web since internet social network services will continue to grow. Most youths like us use the social network services in one way or another. I believe that people will start to conduct research on that since social network will bound to create some social issues. The database for invisible web is considered quite small and it does not include the very recent articles.

The TP's Databases: ITRO also generated no result for my topic and I am not surprise with that. I believe that the reason is the same as what I had already given above. From what I had gathered from my friends, they are also facing the same problem when using the TP's Databases. I am not saying that the databases are not good; it is just that there is no data on the topic. Furthermore since those databases are compiled by humans, it will take some time before the administrator of the databases add in the newer data.

I think I will use the invisible web (databases) for research in my own respective Diplomas. The reason is that in my respective Diplomas, the research topic should quite establish hence there will be more reports, articles and even books related what I am searching on. However as I had said earlier, it will be better if we attempt to use each different facilities for our search to increase the chances of getting better search result. The types of search facilities to use largely depend on the given topics.

For this topic of internet social network, I will prefer to use Google Search Engine as it is more general and I don't really need to provide in-depth results. Furthermore more results are yield and they include forum posting. Invisible web is not able to include forum as part of their results because the information on a forum can be quite unstable. One example is the post that I had posted on yesterday on hardwarezone. The first person who replied to the post actually sort of scolded me for asking question. People on the forum also tend to bully new member. They are able to see whether the poster is new or not. When they see that you are a new member, they will try to say some nasty words. However I choose to remain unaffected by that because I had seen much of such cases. I am not at all surprise by the given replied, after all this is a Singapore-based forum. I also realise that the community in Singapore is considered as quite poor as compare to other countries. I wonder why that is so. Similar trends are also spotted in Singapore-based forum. But of course there are still some people that are giving constructive comments.


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