Internet Research Project

The internet research tool I used was CUIL I found it to be very useful. Cuil uses 3x as many information as Google which is alot. Cuil searches results are based on their content and relevance to the keywords or phrases that you put in. This is a good tool because it is not just based on its popularity and you may find information you can use that someone else has not used. It also seperetes different ideas from you and uses images to each of the websites to help you indentify different information. It also uses roll-over defintions that may help you understand other keywords and defintions that may relate to your topic. Also when you type in a keyword you can start your search my tabs because some words have many different meanings such as jaguar, you may mean the car, the animal or a certain term so it gives you different tabs so that you can find exactly what your looking for. It also has blogs that you can apply for and has information from different websites such ask google and yahoo. Some weaknesses is that it also uses wikipedia which isnt very relevant and gives you alot of information such as google does and its hard to look at all of them. All in all I think Cuil is a great source to use and I highly recommond it!

RJA#7b) Internet Research Tool Test

The resource I searched was CUIL.com the search strategies that can be used in Cuil.com are basic keywords, phrases, or sentences, some keywords I used were Nature, nurture, envionment, hereditary, criminal, behavior, and pyschology. Cuil is alot like other resources it gives you list of different websites that fit your keywords or phrases that you put in the search box, that have articles or certain subjects on a certain site. Like others Cuil gives you hundreds and thousands of results (hits) to look from. The date of my search was October 7th, 2009. Based on the internet information I recieved from Cuil I would rate this resource tool a 4 to a 5 because the information given to me was very helpful here were some website pages with information related to my topic that I found.

http://genealogy.about.com/cs/geneticgenealogy/a/nature_nurture_2.htm


http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/jones.html

http://www.faqs.org/abstracts/Psychology-and-mental-health/Addiction-risk-and-aggressive-criminal-behavior-in-adolescence-influence-of-family-school-and-peers.html