ENG-122 ZAPMETA REVIEW

ZapMeta Review
[Metacrawler Title with link]
Strengths
Uses major search engines like yahoo and google
Organized very well and easy to read.
Clusters other relevant words to the right of the page
Weaknesses
Only available in english currently.
Search Engines and Directories Searched
google, yahoo, ask, live search, altavista
Databases
web, images, video, mp3
Operators
Default operation
Search operators supported
search engine math, boolean
Proximity or exact phrase
proximity
Truncation or stemming
truncation
Wildcard
Other
Case Sensitivity
not case sensitive
Stop Words
all, any, and
Advanced Search Function
Yes
Limits
Date
no
File type
no
Field searching
no
Language
english
Family filter
no
Domain or site
no
Other
Sorting
sorts by relevance
Display
Number of hits
yes
Open in new window or tab
yes
Cached pages
no
Clustering
clusters at the right of the page
Thumbnails
no
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search
no
Spell check
no
Sponsored results identified
no
Update date
Other
Help Function
no
Special Features
saves previous searches and search by clusters

ENG-122 TURBOSCOUT REVIEW

Turboscout.com is a very conveinent search tool. It allows the user to visit one site and seach over 90 different databases for desired subject including the major search engines such as google, yahoo, msn, and ask along with several metacrawlers. The site contains different search categories like imiges and news. You can also change the language of the site for people who speak different languages. All in all I give the site an A+ for ease of use and conveinience.


TurboScout Review
[Metacrawler Title with link]
Strengths
Utilize over 90 different search engines on one site.
Weaknesses
A couple of the sites were not in working condition.
Search Engines and Directories Searched
Google, MSN, Yahoo, Ask along with about 90 more.
Databases
N/A
Operators
Default operation
Search operators supported
Yes.
Proximity or exact phrase
Yes.
Truncation or stemming
No.
Wildcard
No.
Other
No.
Case SensitivityNo.
Stop WordsYes.
Advanced Search FunctionThe advanced search option is available depending on which site you are searching on Turboscout.
Limits
Date
No.
File type
No.
Field searching
No.
Language
Turboscout does accommodate many different languages.
Family filter
No.
Domain or site
Yes.
Other
SortingTurboscout does a very good job sorting the different search engines and categories on the page and makes it very easy to navigate.
Display
Number of hits
The result will vary depending on which site you are searching
Open in new window or tab
n/a
Cached pages
n/a
Clustering
Turboscout does not cluster though some sites within turboscout will
Thumbnails
n/a
Suggestions for refining/narrowing search
n/a
Spell check
n/a
Sponsored results identified
n/a
Update date
n/a
Other
Help Function
Special Features

ENG-122 CONDUCTING INTERNET RESEARCH

Google

• Helicopter History
• "Helicopter history" -rc -remote -control
• October 12, 2008
• 11,300 hits
• Relevance:5

Google

• Technological advances
• Helicopter "technological advances" -rc -remote -control
• October 12, 2008
• 11,600
• Relevance:3

ENG-122 Planning field research

For my field research I am going to visit the Wings Over the Rockies Aviation and Space Museum. When visiting the museum I plan to find out about the evolution of the helicopter, technological advancements over the years, and where the helicopter is going in the future. I hope to complete this task by the end of this week and I think it will help me a great deal with my research.

ENG-122 metacrawler

Turboscout

• Helicopter History
• Helicopter History -rc -remote -control
• 10.05.08
• Google 424,000 Relevance-5
• Yahoo 29,400,000 Relevance-3
• Msn 3,160,000 Relevance-3
• Ask 1,396,000 Relevance-3

Zapmeta

• Helicopter History
• Helicopter History -rc -remote -control
• 10.05.08
• Relevance-3
  

ENG-122 Internet search tools

The only search engine I use on the Internet is Google. I have always used Google as long as I can remember. I like Google because I think it is clean and organized. There is not a lot of clutter on the page and I can almost always find really good information on my search topic on the first page of results. One thing I do not like about Google is after the first page of results it is hard to find relevant information about the topic. Other than that I think Google is a very good search engine. The other search engine I know about is Yahoo and and MSN. I don't like these search engines because I think they are more cluttered than Google and I don't seem to get as good results with either of them than I do with Google.

Eng-122 EBSCO SEARCH

ENG-122 REFERENCE WORKS

Searched google using search math "Helicopter History" -Remote -Control -rc -game.
date of search:09/27/2008
number of hits:11,700
relevance of hits: 5

ENG-122 Books

The helicopter : history, piloting, and how it flies

• by John Fay ; illustrated by Lucy Raymond, David Gibbings, Dulcie Legg
• 3d rev. ed.
• Newton Abbot ; North Pomfret, Vt. : David & Charles, 1976

The god machine : from boomerangs to black hawks, the story of the helicopter

• James R. Chiles
• 354 p. : ill. ; 24 cm
• New York, N.Y. : Bantam Book, 2007

ENG-122 Search Strings

Helicopter +History -Remote control -game

Helicopter AND (History OR Evolution) AND NOT Remote Control

Helicopter AND (Licens* OR Require*) AND NOT Schools

ENG-122 Generating Keywords

What were important milestones in the evolution of the helicopter?

• Important- crucial, significant, authoritative
• Milestone- dates, events, occasion juncture
• Evolution- history, development, creation
• Helicopter- chopper

I have generated a list of words that should help the research of my topic go more smoothly. I took the most important words from the above question and found some synonyms I could use in place of those words to maximize the number of sources. I used visual thesaurus to find the synonyms. I also used the technique discussed in class along the Bedford Researcher to help me with the task.

Some ideas for my field research are:

• Interview a licensed pilot
• Interview a flight instructor
• Interview someone who works for the FAA
• Interview someone working in the aeronautical engineering field at the School of Mines or CU Boulder
• Talk with someone who works at an airport
• Meet with someone from the National Guard

ENG-122 Broaden my research topic

After searching the web and other resources, I have decided my I am going to need to broaden my topic. At the beginning, I was going to write about solely on the history of the helicopter. I think I will have a hard time writing a fifteen page paper on just the history. Instead I will broaden my topic to cover not only the history, but also the future. I will research different manufactures, how much they cost, how they fly, and important people in the field. This should help me immensely in achieving a longer more well rounded paper.

ENG-122 Research Question

1. When was the helicopter invented?
2. When was the creation of the first fully operational helicopter?
3. Why was the helicopter invented?
4. Who was credited with the invention of the helicopter?
5. How has the helicopter evolved over the years?
6. Where was the birthplace of the helicopter?
7. Should the helicopter be considered one of the greatest inventions in history?
8. How was the idea of the helicopter made a reality?
9. Where is the helicopter headed in the future?
10. What is the process for getting licensed as a helicopter pilot?
11. How do helicopters fly?
12. How do helicopters without a tail rotor fly?

ENG-122 Exploring My Topic

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter This is a very good source for research. It has information on everything from the history of the helicopter to how to fly and the purpose of the controls in the cockpit. One thing I learned from the site is the word helicopter came from the Greek words helik meaning spiral and pteron meaning wing.



http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/helicptr/webpage.htm This site tells alot about the history of the helicopter and gives a good chronological timeline of the evolution of the helicopter. From this site I learned that some of the earliest recorded concepts of a helicopter came from china around 400 A.D.



http://helicopter-history.org/ This is another good site about the history of the helicopter and is laid out in a series of links sorted chronologically. Each link tells another fact about the development of helicopters during that time period. Paul Cornu took the first flight in a helicopter on November 13, 1907.



http://inventors.about.com/od/hstartinventions/a/helicopter.htm This site has useful information about Igor Sikorsky who was as the site states, "considered to be the "father" of helicopters not because he invented the first. He is called that because he invented the first successful helicopter, upon which further designs were based."


http://www.glue.umd.edu/~leishman/Aero/history.html#Early%20Thinking This website is a great source for the history and evolution of the helicopter. Leonardo Da Vinci contributed to the creation of the helicopter by publishing his drawings of his "aerial-screw" in 1483.

The History of the Helicopter

After careful consideration, I have chosen to write about the history of the helicopter. I have always had a profound interest in flight since I was a little kid. I would love going on family vacations across the country not just to experience new things, but mostly because I knew we would get to fly in a plane. My younger siblings and I would always fight over who gets to sit by the window. I would ultimately prevail! Now as college student, my childhood fascination with flying has influenced my decision to become a helicopter pilot.



As much as I love helicopters and flying, I barely know anything about the helicopter. In fact, there are only a few things I know about the helicopter now that I really think about it. I know a helicopter flies by rotating a two, three or four blade horizontal propeller to create downward thrust to lift the massive machine into the air. I know it has another vertical propeller on the tail of the helicopter that controls the turning of the air craft by speeding up or slowing down. I know that a helicopter can seat one or carry many passengers. Other than that, the rest is unknown.


There are many thing I wish to learn about the helicopter during the research process. For one, I would like to know who invented the helicopter and how it came about. Was there a purpose or reason for the invention? Second, I would like to know how to operate the helicopter. What is the principle function of all of the controls in the cockpit? Third, I want to know about the technological advancements over the years since the helicopter was invented. Last, I would like to know what the future holds for the helicopter.

Possible Research Topics

• History of the space program


• History of the car


• History of the Helicopter


• The life of Einstein


• The history of basketball


• Drug addiction
  
• Effects of drugs on the brain
  
• Creation of the Universe
• What are black holes
• Emergence of the C.I.A.
• Effect of Global Warming
• History of Gangs
• Creation of the Internet