Exercise 2.2
Step 1:
First, I went to Ask.com. I typed in to the search bar "Planned effects of 9/11". I instantly got a long list of results, as was expected. At the beginning of the list, we see several advertisements and some sites that have absolutely nothing to do with the attacks. The first site listed about September the 11th, 2001is an Ask.com home sight that gives a surprisingly good explanation of the "traditional" view of what happened. I then typed into Bing and Google and got similar results.
Step 2:
I then typed in "facts about 9/11" into Mamma. Interestingly enough I had to do a lot of reading and weeding through to get to a solid site. There were plenty of other sites around the good ones for, again, advertising and other "facts and about" pages. Now, the sites that I did find were very useful and I noted them. I then put in a few other key words into different search engines. For instance, I put "World Trade Center" into Dogpile.com and got almost all results on the current rebuilding of the WTC and very little to do with 9/11 save for a few memorial sites. So, all in all, that was not a very good search word. I then tweaked my entry and put in "World Trade Center 9/11". That gave me a little better results, but still not much to work with. It cited History.com and Wikipedia, great sites to start with because both sites are not partial or biased. There are ultimately 2 sides to this argument.
Step 3:
I used Intute to search "9/11" The commission report came up. I will be using the 9/11 Commission Report as one of my references. There were a good number of remembrance sites and most of the content was very dated. I then tried typing in "9/11 Truth" into Sweet Search and got incredible results. The way that site is set up is really cool and very user friendly. I will definitely be using Sweet Search to find sources.
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