Executive Summary
Advancement in technology has helped businesses to have access to information in an easier way. Today even a common man can use internet to find important information easily. There are several search engines that have supported this cause and these search engines have helped the problems of people a lot in finding relevant information in a quick time (Hock, 2001). Using search engines, people can find information related to anything whether it is related to marketing, engineering, social sciences, humanities, physics, chemistry, mathematics etc. Therefore internet is used by people for a number of reasons (Jansen, & Spink, 2006).
This report presents the how to manage the farm from the outbreak of canker disease and preventing the farm from such issues. Canker disease can influence the farms and therefore it is important to take preventive actions. Therefore this report provides information regarding the impact of this disease, and how this disease can be prevented. The report also presents information to know how to manage the farm in a better way and how other organizations in Queensland as well as in Australia have been managing this issue. This report presents the keywords that could be used to search related information. Moreover, the report has presented different online search tools that could be used. Then the report analyses the discussion to select the type of search engine to achieve each particular keyword. The report at the end provides conclusion.
Introduction
Information technology has advanced so much and today people use internet to gain information about a lot of things (Manning, Raghavan, & Schütze, 2008). Moreover, internet is also used by businesses to use information as well. Internet is used for a number of reasons like to know about how others have managed and tackled the same issue in the past and what strategies can be used to solve the problem (Manning, Raghavan, & Schütze, 2008).
This report would focus on providing information regarding the outbreak of canker disease. In order to do so, the report presents objectives that are to be achieved and then how these objectives would be achieved. The report would focus on analyzing the keyword that would significantly help to identify the objectives set in the earlier stage through the effective use of keywords and synonyms. In addition, this portion of the report would also indicate whether the keywords would be used in searching for the information required. Next, the online tools that would be used to search relevant information would be identified. Furthermore, the selection of online search tools would be evaluated along with proper justification that why would only the selected online tools would be used rather than using other online search tools available. In the end, the initial search strategies would be evaluated on each of the online tool indicated in the earlier part. In addition, the unique features would also be indicated and evaluated of the particular online tool selected. This portion will also focus on discussing that why the search strategies would be different as compared to other online tools available over the internet. Furthermore, this report would indicate that how were the search strategies developed and what purpose could the search strategies that could be helpful in handling the situation. An invoice has also been presented for the work.
Farms in Queensland as well in other parts of Australia are facing problems from the outbreaks of citrus growth. Therefore it has become important for the farmers and the citrus growers to know about the impact of such disease and how to prevent such disease.
So it has become essential for farmers to gain information regarding Citrus Canker as well as to learn how the disease in New South Wales could impact upon the farm. The report also focuses on knowing about the previous outbreaks in farms in Australia.
Search Objectives
“To identify the outbreak of the canker disease on citrus growers along with identify strategies and preventive measures to manage such diseases and how others have successfully managed this disease in Australia”
The objective of the search is to find out how people in the past have faced and managed the same problem. The search objective is to find out and identify how this disease can impact the farm and how it has impact of the disease on citrus growers in the region of Queensland. The impact can be analyzed in terms of the total loss of the farm or the financial impact that has outbreak the farm. Moreover, the search objective is to not only identify and analyze how people in Queensland are managing such issues but to identify and analyze how other organizations in Australia are taking actions in order to manage and prevent from such disease in other parts of the country. Plus the other important result that would be needed is to find out the time frame in which farm from such disease can be corrected. In addition to this, the objectives of search results should be able to provide recommendations in better managing this disease and in reality what actions have been taken by the firms in the industry.
The summarized form of search objectives has been presented below:
Analysis of Keywords
Online Search Tools Selected
There are a number of search tools available today. Different search engine works in a different way (Sullivan, 2002). Moreover, some people prefer one search engine whereas others would not prefer the same (Teevan, Alvarado, Ackerman, & Karger, 2004). Some of the major search engine tools that have been used by a large number of users are as follows:
- Google
- Yahoo!
- Bing
- Altavista
- AOL Search
- Lycos
- Live Search (Sullivan, 2006; Bar-Ilan, Mat-Hassan, & Levene, 2006)
As there are a number of search engine tools, however one of the most used search engines is Google. There are a number of factors that differentiate Google from the other search engines (Langville, & Meyer, 2006). Some of the major factors for which Google has been selected as the search engine tool have been discussed below:
Speed
One of the major factors that differentiate Google from the other search engine tools is the speed (Gardner, & Eng, 2005). Google is a very efficient search engine in not only searching the required data but the website is loaded very quickly (Hansell, 2007). Thus it helps the users to find the required data in the quickest possible time.
Simple yet effective
The other important factor that differentiates Google from the rest is its simplicity. The search engine is not only simple but it is user friendly (Evans, 2007).
Effective results
One of the most important features that are required for the search engine to be successful is to find effective results. Google is able to find the most effective results and it is able to search results from different perspectives and from different fields whether someone is looking for accounting concepts, engineering problems, technical or non-technical, any problem related to farming or related to industrial issues, Google is able to find the required results in the most effective manner (Falagas, Pitsouni, Malietzis, & Pappas, 2008).
Different features from Google
Google is not only a search engine. It offers a range of other services like search images, search books, view different books (Brophy, & Bawden, 2005), search journal articles using Google scholar (Jacsó, 2005), search videos (Chen, 2006).
The database search engine selected is Science Direct. Although there are number of search engines however some of the renowned database search engines are: Science Direct, Emerald, Elsevier, Wiley, etc. However among different database search tools, Science Direct has been selected for this report. Some of the most important features for selecting Science Direct are:
Data available
Science Direct is one of the renowned search database tools. Science Direct has more than 2,500 peer reviewed journals along with over 11,000 books (Science Direct, 2013). Therefore this makes the database one of the renowned ones.
Easy to use
The website is very friendly to use and the site layout helps the user to use the site in an easier way.
Different categories
There are journal articles related to different categories available at Science Direct. Science Direct offers articles and peer reviewed on a number of fields and subjects and some of them are:
- Physical engineering
- Management
- Business management
- Health sciences
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Life sciences
- Agricultural and biological sciences
- Environmental sciences
- Mathematics
- Medical sciences
- Energy (Science Direct, 2013)
Discussion of the Initial Search Strategies
The first search objective is to identify the outbreak of such disease on citrus growers in Australia. Google is a search engine that is able to find sources from a specific country and if needed then from around the world. So the first search objective is to find the impact of such a disease on citrus growers in Queensland as well as from other parts of Australia. Using Google will help in identifying different types of impact that could be on the farm in Queensland and in Australia.
The other search objective is to identify and analyze other diseases that can impact the farms. With different types of journal articles available at Science Direct, therefore this objective can be achieved from the database search engine. This search would be helpful in knowing different types of disease rather than just the canker caner. So, more specific researches and articles that have been conducted on the citrus growth would be identified from the peer reviewed articles in order to achieve this objective.
The third objective is to identify different ways and techniques that could be used to prevent farms from such disease. This would be done by identifying ways on how different firms have taken actions to prevent farms from such diseases. For this purpose, both Google as well as Science Direct would be used. This would allow the researcher to achieve the objective from a vast field and not only online research and online sites would be used to identify such preventive measures but journal articles would also be used. Therefore the researcher would be able to achieve the objective in a better way using both the sources. In addition to this, using database as well as internet, the researcher would also be able to identify techniques that are natural as well as non-natural.
The fourth search objective is to identify recommendations, ways and suggestions that could be helpful in knowing and identifying and in managing such issues. Actions that would be required to take and manage such issues would be identified using both the options from internet search engine as well as database search. Thus, using both the sources would allow the researcher to identify several ways and strategies to cope up with such issues.
INVOICE
Lee Dowling
Please find the details of the research work regarding the outbreak of canker disease below:
Thank you
Conclusion
The report has presented how to collect information that could be helpful in managing the farm and preventing the farm from outbreak of such disease. The report has presented how to use different search engine tools using different keywords to find the relevant information. In addition to this, the report has also presented an analysis of two of the selected search engine tools to achieve the search objectives. The tools that have been selected are; Google which is for the internet search and Science Direct which is a database search engine. The report has presented a discussion as well regarding the use of different keywords from specific type of online search tools. This would be further helpful in knowing how to achieve the objectives in the best possible manner.
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