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I’m exhaustively happily doing research on my next school project. Research on a particular nursing subject, its applications to the current state of health care, medicine, the profession… blah.. blah.. blah.
I normally start by doing a simple internet search using my favorite : Google. I can’t say I use any other search engine in my travels. I do use Cooliris whenever I’m looking for images, but otherwise, I’m a habitual Googler’.
Any-hoo…
I was doing my initial search queries, gathering web pages, articles, blog post, new clippings, etc. I found a plethora of information (like I usually do). Well I always try to reference official professional citing and published works. I can usually find the ‘official’ stuff with Google, but I sometimes have to go the ‘official’ route. Official route being the formal search query databases. Everything from CINAHL, OVID, and all the other University-based databases.
I found even more information of course.
For any scholar student who has used a search query database, I don’t need to explain the complexities of getting it right and the difficulties of doing it wrong. Your word and preposition placement in your search queries can make or break your experience. Instead of honing in on that one piece of information you so greatly need… you could be running in circles perusing useless information and locating nothing.
The point of this story? (yes there is one)
In my official search using the database queries I found and selected the very same piece of material I searched for using Google. What took a great amount of skill, word placement, and multiple searches was accomplished with one search string using your run-of-the-mill internet search engine.
The internet is a wonderful thing indeed.
Go figure.
