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Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Sucessive Fractions Search

For my successive fractions search, I chose WorldCat and started with what I thought was the broadest term, services.



The search returned 1.7+ million hits. Far, far too vast.




I added the libraries keyword.

I got 72,199 hits. Hits 4 and 10 were suprisingly relevant to my topic.



I decided to add the search term electronic in order to get more targeted results.

I got 10,141 hits. Still far too many. Hits 1, 2 and 8 were relevant. Still, tweaking the search terms would probably result in more targeted hits.

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