Thinking back on how i did my research for my projects before attending EIR lesson, i only uses both yahoo and google. When searching, i usually type in the whole chunk of sentences or put in the keywords.

Then i came to realize when going through lecture, I should create a suitable search strategy, picking up keywords and having different word variations. Not forgetting that by putting in common boolean operators like 'AND', 'OR' and also '*' which help me to form my search query which will be able me to narrow down or broaden the topic i am searching for.

I wasn't aware that there is scholar google till i work on this practical. Both search engine are rather effective to me and they have their own strengths and weaknesses. To my personal opinion, i felt that scholar google is able to provides me with the most recent articles and the amount of pages is lesser which really helps to filter out some irrelevant pages of information.

As mentioned in previous posts, my research topic is on the developments of internet social network services, i will need to post on a discussion forum to get others opinion and feedback. Honestly, i am still trying to phrase out what i should i post on the forum. What will others think of my research topic, will others care to reply or did i make myself clear in what i wanted to ask. These considerations i given to myself will somehow create certain stress.

Working on citation and bibliography can be a tedious. There are formats which i must follow and not just 'copy and paste' the url links. However, this is how we should give credits to the people who provide me with information i needed.