| 1. Day, date, location | Sunday evening Nov. 9, 1997 at friend's house. |
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| 2. Mood/affective state | Happy because favorite football team won, $$$$$. |
| 3. Search engine, number of times used, whether like it or not, why | The search engine used was Alta Vista and it was the fourth time I have used it. I liked this engine because I was in a good mood and it is easy to use. Plus there are many tools you can use to improve your search. |
| 4. Statement typed in, why chose those words, did it contain Boolean operators, why/why not, and was it a first search or respnse to another | Statement typed in was puka shells, no capitals. I chose this statement because I make puka shell necklaces and wanted to see if there were other's doing it also. I didn't include any Boolean operators because I didn't feel it was necessary for this search because on my first search, I got results that I was looking for. |
| 5. Number of expected hits | I expect only about 500. |
| 6. Number of actual hits | Yoiker! Totally off. Got 23,908 hits. |
| 7. Reactions to #5 & #6 | I couldn't believe there were so many hits. I thought my prediction would be pretty close to the actual this time. I thought there wouldn't be that many because I thought only people in Hawaii would know about them and I don't see many real puka shells around. |
| 8. Evaluation of hits: what proportion were relevant and how found this out | There weren't many relevant hits. I found this out by looking at most of the results' titles and summaries. I also visited some sites too. Most of the hits were about shells, but not the kind I was looking for, but the ones that were relevant were really excicting. Although the prices they were asking for the necklaces were really expensive and they weren't that nice. |
| 9. How felt about it, did mood influence how I searched, did topic influence search strategy, did make use of engine instructions or help documents, why | I felt pretty good to find some sites about puka shells. Being in a good mood helped a lot. I didn't really care there were plenty of irrelevant hits, as long as there were some that were relevant. If I was tired or irritated, I would have given up or become upset because there were so little good hits. The topic didn't influence my search strategy in any way and I didn't use the help items because this is what I expected in my search and was happy with it. |
| 10. Ratings |
Stressful-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Pleasant: Very happy Dissatisfied-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Satisfied: Little results Wasted-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Valuable: Nothing new Confusing-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Clarifying: Nothing Discouraging-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Hopeful: Got something |
| 1. Day, date, location | Sunday evening Nov. 9, 1997 at friend's house. |
|---|---|
| 2. Mood/affective state | Happy because favorite football team won, $$$$$. |
| 3. Search engine, number of times used, whether like it or not, why | The search engine used wasWebcrawler and this was the fourth time I have used this engine. I liked this engine because it's better than Alta Vista and there are a lot of items to help make your search a whole lot easier. |
| 4. Statement typed in, why chose those words, did it contain Boolean operators, why/why not, and was it a first search or respnse to another | The statement typed in was puka shells , no capitals. I chose this statement because I make puka shell necklaces and wanted to see if there were other's doing it also. I didn't include any Boolean operators because I didn't include it in my other search on Alta Vista, and they had to be the same, and because I felt I didn't need any. |
| 5. Number of expected hits | Since Alta Vista had around 23,000, and Webcrawler gets less, about 10,000. |
| 6. Number of actual hits | Still too much, this time only got 3,361 hits. |
| 7. Reactions to #5 & #6 | Not too surprised, I expected little results. Hopefully since there are less, more will be relevant this time. |
| 8. Evaluation of hits: what proportion were relevant and how found this out | Again, most of the results were irrelevant. Many were about shells, but not the kind I was looking for. Some were not even close to what I was looking for. I found this out by looking at the titles and summareis of most of the results and also visited some of the sites to see some pictures. |
| 9. How felt about it, did mood influence how I searched, did topic influence search strategy, did make use of engine instructions or help documents, why | Again, I wasn't too discouraged because this is what I expected. I didn't expect to find many relevant hits, but was happy as long as there were a few relevant ones. Also being happy made it not seem so bad, but if I weren't happy, this would have been a very bad search. The topic didn't influence my search strategy and I didn't use any help documents, although I now feel I should have to make my search more efficient. |
| 10. Ratings |
Stressful-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Pleasant: Happy Dissatisfied-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Satisfied: Little results Wasted-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Valuable: Gained nothing Confusing-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Clarifying: ????? Discouraging-3/-2/-1/0/+1/+2/+3Hopeful: Had something |