Reflections: Google vs Google Scholar

Today, Ms Faridah teaches us how to perform searches in Google more effectively. For instance, shortlist all the keywords that is related to the research topic and then find out different variations of the keywords, e.g. trends may carry the same meaning with movements and directions. Then she introduces us to Boolean operators so the results will match as closed as what we wants. 

For the next activity, we perform the searches in Google and Google Scholar. Features and search results was then interpreted for comparison between two of them. I found that the Google is much general and there are lot of informations found related to the topic. The search functions offered by Google was quite impressive as well. About 306,000 results was retrieved by Google in less than 40 seconds. Whereby Google Scholar is much more relevant for educational purpose, with mostly articles and news. Although the speed was faster compare to Google search, but the results matched was only about 109,000. Not to say disappointing, because the results found is more relevant to this topic as it was a topic being discussed and debated quite a lot of times before and has become a general topic. In this situation, I think Google Scholar is more suitable compared to Google.

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