Week 6: Searching, searching ...

What did I find when I searched del.icio.us, Connotea, CiteULike, Murdoch Library catalogue, Google, dogpile, zuula and kartoo? Well, each site search retrieved different numbers of sites (I searched for 'libraries'). Kartoo was the only one that looked at very different as it presented the results visually. I guess any search on a 'tag' will only retrieve what has also been tagged with that tag. So 'libraries' will find x sites, while 'library' will find y sites and 'librarian' will find z sites. So a controlled vocab (taxonomy) will find relevant results, once you know what the taxonomic terms are. I do like del.icio.us. I've added some links to my site.