In this week 3 class I will be sharing with all of you about this above topics. As a college student in English course programme, you surely be faced everyday with new terminology and vocabulary. When you missed the chance learning, you might be stuck in a poor position by looking 'blur' just because you used the wrong word to explain or describe something, being all confused by what your lecturer or professor talking in front of class. But, when you join this Internet Technology I am lucky to learn more how to cope with this problems.
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Are you familiar with all these logo above? In this post, you will look at the difference between a database and search engine. We will also look at how the Internet figures into this whole picture. So, what is a database? The answer is it is an organized collection of journal, magazine, newspaper and article. A database works like an index that allows you to locate articles relevant to your topic. If you go any library at local university, national library or maybe school library, they have subscribes to database services or in other words the library pays for the service. Some examples of database are the Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL), ProQuest, Academic Search Premier, PsychINFO, and Science Direct.
Meanwhile, search engine on the other hand is a general Internet search tool that locate pretty much anything on the Web. A search engine offers basically no organization of information, no control over the information you will find. The commonly used search engines, I used are Google, Bing and Yahoo. I am sure you are familiar with the Search Engines already and probably use them everyday. Now, how does the internet figure into this? A connection to the Internet is necessary to use both a search engine like Google and a database like ProQuest.
The internet is a broad umbrella like term and database and search engine fall under that broad term as more specific identifiers as both them need to have a connection to the Internet in order to use its functional. Hence, if you say "I used the Internet to find my source.", I think you have not really said much at all. What is more important is to know did you use a search engine like Google or did you use a database like GVRL. That is all for now and don't forget to use your Internet wisely! ✌