Wednesday, February 24, 2010

RJA #6a: Websites–

Search Engine:
 Used altavista.com
 Used the keywords Alcohol, damage, psychological as required with any of the following words present: teen, teens, teenager, underage
 Date searched: 2/24/2010
 Number of hits: 4.5 million pages
 Relevance: 4/5
http://alcoholism.about.com/od/teens/a/blacer050216.htm
http://www.alcohol-drug.com/neuropsych.htm
http://www.marininstitute.org/Youth/teen_alcohol_use.htm

Meta search engine:
 Used cactisearch.com
 Used the keywords alcohol, affect, biological, damage, physiological, teenager as required. It website apparently didn’t allow Boolean type or the site was having issues as I received no hits but a lot of error messages. When I started removing search phrases it helped slightly but most results were not even relevant.
 Date searched: 2/24/2010
 Relevance: 1/5

Directory:
 Used Yahoo Directory
 Searched using various combinations of keywords such as alcohol, alcoholism, youths, teenager, mental, psychological etc
 Date searched: 2/24/2010
 # of hits:363 using the search: teenagers + alcohol
 Relevance: 3/5
www.psychologyinfo.com/depression/teens.htm
www.focusas.com/SubstanceAbuse.html

Invisible Web Search Tool
 Used incywincy.com
 Used keywords alcohol teen mental with best results, I used a variety of other keywords but non gave such a good response
 Date searched: 2/24/2010
 # of hits: 20,542
 Relevance: 1/5 Last time I checked, Webmd.com wasn’t invisible!
http://www.webmd.com/mental-health/alcohol-abuse/tc/teen-alcohol-and-drug-abuse-topic-overview

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