ITC-125 (Assignment 2, Part A)  - Peter Param
Search	Reason for use	Source	Search Syntax	Hits	Comment on quality	Results
A1	google is the generic search engine that I use at work which gives me quick jumps to topics	google.com.au	"security on the web"	5760	Generalised, a lot of commercial advertising, instruction for customers and end users	example 1
A2		google.com.au	"security on the web" -"how to" -about -verisign	805	Removed a lot of advertising and customer instructions	example 2
A3		google.com.au	credit encryption "security on the web"  -"how to" -about -verisign	29	Quality references on web/credit security (ads and commercial entries removed)	example 3
A4		google.com.au	worm "security on the web"  -"how to" -about -verisign	8	Quality references on worms (ads and commercial entries removed)	example 4
A5		google.com.au	vulnerabilities "security on the web"  -"how to" -about -verisign	15	Quality references on vulnerabilities (ads and commercial entries removed)	example 5
B1	Highbeam is a good elibrary with excellent sources of information technology related subjects  from editorials and news articles.	http://www.highbeam.com/library (highbeam)	"security on the web"	97	Generalised,  but the results are better quality than generic public search engines	example 6
B2		http://www.highbeam.com/library (highbeam)	"security on the web"  -"how to"  -about  -VeriSign	14	Higher quality references, without commercial entries or advertising	example 7
C1	The SAN institute is one of the leading institute for computer network security and research. I used their virtual reading room for research.	http://www.sans.org/rr/  (SANS reading room)	"security on the web"	1145	High quality general references	example 8
C2		http://www.sans.org/rr/  (SANS reading room)	worm "security on the web"  -"how to" -about -verisign	9	Quality references on worms (references to commercial entities removed)	example 9
C3		http://www.sans.org/rr/  (SANS reading room)	vulnerabilities "security on the web"  -"how to" -about -verisign	40	Quality references on vulnerabilities (references to commercial entities removed)	example 10
D1	The Smh search facility is linked to the F2 (fairfax) Newstore archive library which has an excellent repository of articles from all its publications	smh.com.au (f2) network	+web +security	200	General articles on archive.  The search results are 'star rated'  (*****  to *).	example 11
D2		smh.com.au (f2) network Newstore	Advanced Search: tighter AND web AND security	1	All hits with 5 stars were given serious consideration	example 12
E1	This is another excellent  facility through CSU, which allows me to do a content and information search on articles	Proquest	"security on the web"	25	General Articles on web security. Ranging from encryption acceleration to latest movements in security in the IT industry	example 13
E2		Proquest	"security on the web" AND SSL	1	Detailed discussion on SSL accelerators	example 14