Sunday, September 15, 2013

Test of CRAAP

Justfacts.com

Currency: This website is pretty okay at updating; the last time it was updated was on August 26, 2013.

Relevance: This website is pretty relevant because these are all recent and really detailed.

Authority: The president of this website is James D. Agretsi. This website does give credentials and have qualifications. This website is a non profit organization and thus donators sponsor this website.

Accuracy: I believe this website is accurate because of the details that he has provided into each article with references.

Purpose: This website has a good purpose as to which it has a clear mission to inform the readers about what is happening currently in the world.


Factcheck.org

Currency: This website is doing really well with updating. The last updated time was September 13th, 2013 from what I have found.

Relevance: This website is all about politics and does a well job with informing the readers interested in politics.

Authority: The people who work in this website are in the about us and in that tab, there are our staff. There are many directors such as Brooks Jackson, Eugene Kiely, and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. The rest of the staff are in that page underneath the directors. This website does tell the viewers who fund them.

Accuracy: This website is really good in accuracy. It has sources in the bottom after the articles.

Purpose: This website's mission is to reduce confusion in the U.S area of politics.


Sunday, September 8, 2013

Activity 2, Assignment 1

I decided to choose effects of not exercising because I am trying to convince my friend to start exercising with me after our hiatus. The similarities are that the second website for each engine is the same. Another similarity is that they all have livestrong in each engine. They also have the typical
 top five websites are the same. The differences is the order of which the website came up with. Another difference is that in metacrawler, it came up with a university website which surprised me.


Search Engine: Effects of not exercising

Google:
1. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3.http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/healthyliving/exerciserisk.shtml
4. http://www.ask.com/question/what-are-the-effects-of-not-exercising
5. http://voices.yahoo.com/risks-not-exercising-5978320.html

Yahoo:
1. http://www.livestrong.com/article/389293-the-effects-of-overeating-not-exercising/
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3. http://www.herbal-home-remedies.com/blog/203/effects-of-lack-of-exercise-on-the-body-system/
4. http://www.healthguidenow.info/effects-of-not-exercising/
5. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising

Bing:
1. http://www.livestrong.com/article/389293-the-effects-of-overeating-not-exercising/
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3. http://www.herbal-home-remedies.com/blog/203/effects-of-lack-of-exercise-on-the-body-system/
4. http://www.healthguidenow.info/effects-of-not-exercising/
5. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising

Meta-Search Engines: Effects of not exercising

Webcrawler:
1. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/healthyliving/exerciserisk.shtml
4. http://www.livestrong.com/article/389293-the-effects-of-overeating-not-exercising/
5. http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115074040.htm

Dogpile:
1. http://www.livestrong.com/article/389293-the-effects-of-overeating-not-exercising/
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3. http://www.herbal-home-remedies.com/blog/203/effects-of-lack-of-exercise-on-the-body-system/
4. http://www.healthguidenow.info/effects-of-not-exercising/
5. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising

Metacrawler:
1. http://umm.edu/health/medical/reports/articles/exercise
2. http://www.livestrong.com/article/501683-5-consequences-of-not-exercising/
3. http://deannagill.hubpages.com/hub/Negative-Effects-of-Not-Exercising
4.http://health.nytimes.com/health/guides/specialtopic/physical-activity/exercise%27s-effects-on-other-conditions.html
5. http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/sci_tech/features/health/healthyliving/exerciserisk.shtml