7a: Conducting Internet Research

Search Engine:

Google

Keywords used:

ethnicity, race, politics, government, civil rights, equal representation, minority

Search strategy used:

I used search strings to compile my search such as

+ethnicity+politics+representation

+race+Politics+United States-world

Date of search:

March 15, 2009

Number of hits:

91

Relevance of hits scale:

3-4

Metacrawler

Poly Meta

Keywords used:

ethnicity, politics, race, government, politics

Search strategy used:

+ethnicity+politics-world+United States

-world-religion+ethnicity+politics

Date of search:

March 10, 2009

Number of hits:

125

Relevance of hits scale:

5

Directory:

Yahoo! Directory

Keywords used:

ethcnicity, political parties, racial politics

Search strategy used:

ethnicity in politics, racial politics, government and minority representation

Date of search:

March 9, 2009

Number of hits:

295

Relevance of hits:

3

Other search tool:

Technorati

Keywords used:

ethnicity in politics, Tom Tancredo

Search strategy used:

None

Number of hits:

1,587

Relevance of hits:

5

6a: Using Internet Search Tools

I would have to say that when it comes to search engines I always use good old reliable Google. Before Google came I think I was using MSN search for the majority, I also used AOL search. Once Google came along I jumped on the bandwagon. I like using Google because it has always been reliable for me in the past. I do alot of photography and like using Google images to look for stuff which is always handy. I wouldn't necessarily say I dislike anything about Google, in fact I don't think I have used anything but Google in the last two years.

Google