I then searched using these results and typed Atomic Structure as my keyword and I got the following results:
As you can see from the results tables Google came up with the most results in both searches and Lycos came up with the least with only 6 results for atomic structure.
REFINING MY SEARCH
I refined my search by typing in “bonding between atoms” I found this affective in each search engine as it narrowed down my results to give me a chance to look at each website as there wasn’t that many. I also found this affective as it gave me information on the topic I exactly wanted, rather than information that is irrelevant to the topic I am covering.
I also refined it by typing in the phrase “Metallic bonding in an atom” I also found this effective as it only gave you a few results on the topic exactly on the topic I wanted.
I also used ‘atoms + bonding’ I also found this very effective as it got quite a lot of results to do with the topic but it wasn’t as good as using phrases as it didn’t refine the search as much as using them.
I used ‘ t: atoms-metallic’ to see what results I could get. I found that
This was more effective than using ‘+’ as it gave you less results than it but it was less effective than using phrases.
I then checked at least 1 websites from each search on atomic structure. I looked up six altogether Here are the sites I looked up:
Out of these 6 sites I chose the 4 best in accordance to the amount of information the site gives you and how interesting it is.
The best 4 sites where:
As my fourth choice I picked:
I picked this site as it gives you a lot of information about the timeline of the atomic structure and the different scientists, which came up with all the different ideas about atomic structure. I found this site to be pretty popular and came up on every search engine.
As my third choice I picked:
I picked this site as it told me a lot about atomic structure nearly everything you need to know about it but it didn’t have many pictures which made it look boring and uninteresting and there was a lot it writing to get through. It was also I little bit to advanced.
As my second choice I picked:
. I picked this as it had some good information and some good diagrams to make some information easier to under stand. The site is shown below.
As my first choice I picked www. Library.thinkquest.org/3659/structures I picked this site as my best site as it was easy to understand, there was plenty of diagrams and just enough writing but not to much to explain about atomic structure. This site is also shown below.
