Practical 9

Using Internet as a Research Tool has been my CDS for this semester. At first, I thought that this CDS will be very difficult as I would need to handle blogs. However, after going through the first lesson, I was quite relieved that the lesson went quite well.


This would be the last lesson for UIR. For the whole journey of UIR, I have learnt a lot of things. I got to know the different search facilities that are avaialable and how I can do my research and get relevant results fast and easy with the use of booleans. Also, i learnt how to evaluate my resources to choose for the best results.


UIR has given me a bigger space on how I can do my research. It has enable me to choose the best search facility for my research. I really hope in future, i would be using what i have learnt.

Practical 8

For class test 2, i would say that i did not do my very best. Obviously, i failed. I realised that even it was a small class test, it still requires a lot of understanding and more reading of the lecture notes. This is because although it seems simple, it still needs a very deep understanding of the topics.


Unfortunately, this is the last practical in UIR. I would say that i have learnt a lot of things in this module such as the research facilities available, how to analyse and the citation skills too. I believe it will be useful for me in future when I do my research for my assignments or my work in future.

Practical 7

Nowadays, there are a lot of discussion forum available now. UIR WIKI is a website that enables users to discuss certain topics together. With this WIKI, I can post comments and also reply to my classmates comments on a certain topic that my group members has posted.


Without us noticing, it acts as a learning process for all of us. Personally, i feel that this WIKI is a good form of interacting with classmates and sharing ideas together.

Practical 6B

This entry will be the second internet resource that I used for my assignment 2.
Title of internet resource: ExpatSingapore – Impact of Budget Airlines in Asian Tourism
URL: http://www.expatsingapore.com/forum/index.php?topic=16825.msg1293267


It is a forum discussing on the impact of budget airlines on asian tourism. The website displays users or consumers opinions and ideas on the presence of budget airlines. The contents are very detailed and clear for other users to read through.

Practical 6A

Topic: Discuss the impact of budget airlines on asian tourism industry.
Title of internet resource: Asia Airlines Competing for Increased Travel Traffic
URL: http://www.findbestairline.com/Asia-Airlines/


For the website above, it has the relevant information that I am looking for in my research. It shows the factor on how the airlines are competing for the travel traffic. The article is very comprehensive. This is because it mentioned briefly the impact that the airlines have caused. In the subsequent paragraph, elaboration on the impacts is made. Thus, enhancing the coverage with the relevant information. Overall, the content of the website is good. However, the arrangement and format of the website are very dull.

Practical 4 and 5

Firstly, my first assignment topic is 'Discuss the impact of terrorism on world economy.' In this particular practical, i need to search through three different search facilities to compare and evaluate on the search effectiveness of the search engines.


The three search facilities that I have used are GOOGLE (search engine), Ixquick(Meta search engine) and Yahoo! Directory (Subject Directory). I have typed in the same keywords for all searcj facilities; 'terrorism impact on world economy.'


For the search engine, the hit size was very large and google displayed a wide range of impacts that terrorism has caused. In other words, i could say that this search engine was very efficient in displaying large sume of results in a short perioid of time. Most of the results are relevant to what I am finding and the format and arrangements are all very clear.


Moving on to the meta search engine, its search results are very accurate and easily comprehend. One special feature about this meta search engine is that it will display a star near the results if any search engine chooses it as one of the ten best results. Similar to search engine, this meta search engine also return large size of results that are relevant to my keywords.


Last but not least, the subject directory. For this subject directory, I think that the hit size is not as big as the other search facilities and some of the results are irrelevant.


The similiarities between these three search facilities are that they search through results from the keywords I have entered. The differences are the seach capabilities as in the relevancy of the results and also the hit size.


I think that Google is the most excellent among all the three search facilities. This is because, unlike yahoo! directory that return quite irrelevant results, Google return very relevant results. In addition, google also rank their results according to relevancy. The hit size is also very big compared to the rest.


All in all, this activity has helped me have a better view of the different search facilities available. With thie activity also, I found out the most efficient search facility that can be used for all my researches.