"Love sucks.", said Alexa, who sits beside me at ComSci class, when I asked about her favorite quotation.
I asked her because I cannot think of any nice way of starting this another blog of mine. I love blogging, really, despite my being such a procrastinator at times. I keep a personal blog which I try to update once in a while.
First, I am lame blogger. Or writer. Or whatever. I struggle in organizing my thoughts that my blogs don't really come out the way I want them too. But I keep blogging anyway. That's a good thing right? Despite my undeniable lameness, I keep trying.
So today we were asked to start a blog for ComSci2. It's not new to me, though, since we did the same last semester for IT1. All along I thought I'll only have three writing classes this semester. Now four out of six subjects involve writing. Hmmm.. I could sense self-improvement here, yeah?
As for this meeting's exercise I am supposed to share some of my insights regarding the lesson tackled:
Search results are all the same which ever search engine you chose.
Not true. Even when you enter similar search items, results from different engines such as google, yahoo, bing, etc still may vary. Probably because they have different ways of filtering or rating data's relevance.
Word order in the search query matters.
I think it does not matter since it works by word not by the sentence as a whole. Search engines would put out results with the words you entered regardless of the order. It would show first, though the results similar to what you entered.
In Google, what should you use to include synonyms of a certain word from your results (for example, "schools" in "top schools in the Philippines)?
D. top ~schools in the Philippines (For more efficient way of searching results of the synonyms of your preferred word. ~ is used.)
Welche Zeit wird die Sonne aufgehen in Nizza, heute Frankreich?
(What time will the sun rise in Nice, France today?)
- 7:40 Tuesday (CET) - Sunrise in Nice, France
- 07.40 Dienstag - Sunrise in Nizza, Frankreich
Trivia with a twist. A Google A Day is a trivia game where searching for the answer on Google is not only allowed but encouraged. One question from a google a day is:
If you consecutively slept one night in each room (excluding bathrooms) of the Palace of the Light of Faith, how many years would it take you to sleep in them all? (What is the answer and how did you search it)
A search for “the palace of the light of faith” revealed that Istana Nurul Iman is the name of the palace in Brunei and that there are 1788 rooms including 257 bathrooms. That leaves 1531 rooms divided by 365 equals 4.19 years.It's funny how I entered the whole question in the search box to find this.
I just don't think I gave justice to this. Pardon my lame way of blogging, though I gave my warning. I'm still on the process of getting there. xx
