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What did you already know of the material pesented in the lesson?

In class we have learned about researching and how what is put in the search box greatly effects the outcome. First of all, there are such things as stop words. These are pronouns, verbs, conjuctions, adjectives, adverbs, prepositions and articles. Ofcourse, through years of experience, I learned that certain words aren't necessary when researching and that a specific phrase brings better results then a sentence, but I didn't know just how many kinds of words should be left out. I also figured if you rephrase something it could bring different and possibly even more results but I never thought about using synonyms nevertheless a thesaurus to help me gather information more effectively.

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What did you learn from reading someone else's blog? Did it help you write your own blog entry?

Reading Danielle's blog I was reminded why some content is only accessable in the invisible web. There are a few reasons why certain information is only available in the invisible web and not in search engines but she named four. One was because the pages require a password to be entered in order to reach the information.  Another reason is because the content is too deep in the web for a search engine to get to it. Third, the presence of a root file asked the search engine not to index the content. Last but not least, some information is only available in the invisible web because the search engine doesn't have the technology necessary to index  the non-html content. This helped me narrow down the main reasons some information can't be accessed as easily as others and clarified the difference in the content provided by search engines and the content stored in the invisible web.