St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated not only by Irish-Americans but all Americans. It’s not hard to see why people like the holiday- the drinking, drinking, and more drinking! Thus, the purpose for my online search was to see Baltimore on St. Patty’s Day. There were unique differences while using both Delicious, a social-bookmarking site, and a search engine like Google. Each website offered various types of content and sources.
After conducting the search, there was only one similar link that appeared on both site’s results page, a Baltimore Sun article. In fact the information placed in the search box in Delicious had to be altered because it could not find any information under “St. Patrick’s Day events in Baltimore City.” However, when the information said, “St. Patrick’s Day events,” it was able to put two different stacks. Therefore, it seems that Delicious does better with general topics or subject versus being very specific. In addition, the site seems to be used more for searching for information than events or activities.
Both Delicious and Google seem to have a range of older and current information. Delicious is however, very organized because they put their information into stacks (groups of similar information). Google is different because their information is organized more based on presenting articles or news related information first. The website can also further a user from their search because it pulls any information which has the search word in it, thus it could even be unrelated. As far as reliability, both have credible and non-credible sources. Yet, Delicious might be an initial stop because it seems to be like Wikipedia, where the information provided is more like an introduction, guide, or reference. Google, though has the ability to search under Google scholar which presents academic resources.
Neither Delicious nor Google is better. The important question a user must ask is, “What am I searching for?” After answering that question then the user can decide which tool would suite them better. Generally, Google’s is my preference because of its user-friendly layout and my familiarity with it as well. Nevertheless, trying out Delicious for future searches would also be a good idea since it is very useful in organizing information by analyzing the users’ search topic. In addition, the site also compares the topic being searched to what other online community users have been searching for within that same topic. However, this would be for information gathering rather than searching for something to do in Baltimore.
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