Wk 4 & 5 - Portfolio 1 & Site feeding

Hi everyone :)
I am finally back to this space after a few weeks of not blogging!
We handed in the first part of our portfolio to Mdm Faridah a few weeks ago.
It was required for us to evaluate a normal search engine such as Google, and compare it with a META search engine such as Dogpile.
Through the project, I have learnt so much about internet search engines that I did not know before. I did not even know that META search engines exist.
They are very useful research tools as they show search results for information from many different databases such as Yahoo!, Bing, and Google itself, all at one go. Coooool.
I think it is beneficial as it would greatly enhance our search efficiency for our school projects and etc. It's all about speed and accuracy now.

I also did a mock 'wikipedia' project on the topic of "Animation industry and the USA" together with my group mates. The best part about collaborating when doing our wiki was the contribution of ideas and the free authority of editing the information as an when as we liked. But only adding in relevant info, of course.

For the start of the new term this week, we learnt about how to 'link' each other's EIR blogs in our own blog!
This is also given the term known as 'Site feeding'.
I feel that this idea of linking up blogs can help us to save time when we want to visit our friend's blog as their webpage would popup instantly without us typing any URLs.
I can also see exactly when they update their blogs.
Thus, this enable bloggers to link popular sites or even Youtube videos in their blog which they want to share with friends and readers.
It makes things more convenient.

This is the final 7-8 weeks for EIR, will focus and try to do well :D