Today I learnt about the functions and features of using Google search engine. I was impressed by how many people are actually using this search engine every day. The boss of Google can actually earn money even when he is sleeping. The Google search engine can actually give me millions of results based on the topic research that I put in. There are so many pages of results that I could only browse through the first few pages and hopefully get what I wanted. This search engine is also quite reliable because the search results were quite related to my topic, I could use the website given to help me in my project. I could also translate my research topic into another language using the translation tool given by Google. This is helpful because some websites are written in a language other than English, I would have trouble finding the website if I keep typing in English to find the related website.
At first, I felt that I would not get any reply from the forum because the topic I have posted is not really related the type of forum I put in. Many people used that forum to discuss about the games they are playing and give tips on how to do a certain quest. My topic is “Discuss the impact of online gaming on youths”, so I did not expect any reply. However, that thread I posted had already reached three pages of reply and some of the replies were very useful in doing my project. Although I do not know most of the people in that forum, I felt that they were helpful and kind in giving me good reply for my research topic.
Citation and bibliography is very important when I am trying to take a portion of a work from an unknown website, and place it in a project that I am going to submit. If I do not put bibliography, it would mean that I am claiming that paragraph as my own work thus causing plagiarism. I have to give credit to the information that I had taken from in order to avoid plagiarism, by giving a link to where I had taken this information from at the bottom of my work.
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