Thursday, January 12, 2012

Bing continues to disappoint me

I rarely use Bing, because it tends to lead me around in circles and it likes to autocorrect everything I type in. Which explains why I was having difficulty finding articles on the "piece crusades". Hmm. Well, Bing was decent for this project, but the best page it could provide me with was Wikipedia. Not everything seemed reliable, and often the articles would simply mention "peace" or "Crusade" or "Is Islam a friendly religion?" and not actually be talking about the crusades. Google was slightly better, but I was surprised by the lack of quality articles I found using it. I love Google. But apparently it's not the best for history projects. Yahoo, shockingly to me anyways, provided some nice articles that I used during my research. There wasn't a lot of irrelevant stuff in the middle, which is nice and it saves time. Sweetsearch was the best, because it linked to lots of informative articles and didn't give me too much random stuff to sift through.

The only other reference we used was the textbook, which I put in the bibliography.

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