Sunday, July 26, 2009

Internet and privacy and (elderly or child*) and (law* or legislat*)

I chose altavista as my search engine. I chose the following information from each of the top-level domains.

For the .gov domain I chose:
Privacy & Security News Brief
December 15 – December 21, 2007 Vol. 1, No. 11 20 pgs
This article had links of several different articles that all had to do with some type of internet privacy and identify theft.

For my .org domain I chose:
http://www.cba.org/Alberta/PDF/Newsletter-Spring2007.pdf
Law Matters, even though it was a Canadian article the information was good. It followed the A.S.P.E.C.T rules as well. This article too was three years old.

For my .edu domain I chose
http://culaw2.creighton.edu/pdf/library/Collection%20Dev%20Policy%202008%20Final%20Version.pdf

I believe all the articles that I chose for the three domains followed all the A.S.P.E.C.T rules. All had good authority, the sources were good, the purpose was well stated and relevant to what I was looking for, the article was balanced on the information, and all were less than four years old. I chose articles that came either from a university or from a government source.

I had problems finding a good article or web site in the .com domain, I tried everything that I could think of, and every combination that of my search question.

Kitty can you suggest anything?

1 comment:

  1. You found some good sources!

    For the .com: Your search strategy is perfect for one of the library's databases, but Google applies the syntax differently, so I changed it to:

    Internet privacy laws elderly OR child site:.com

    This is actually one of those searches where it's easier to go into the advanced search, which walks you through the options, than to try to remember all the syntax rules.

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