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2005 Fall Newsletter

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We have sad news, Don Rosenthal, founder and chair of the Committee on Computers in Chemical Education (CCCE) died unexpectedly this year. Don's foresight, energy and hard work will be missed. He was a longtime friend and colleague. Scott Van Bramer has taken over for Don and we wish him good fortune in his new position.

 

List of papers in this newsletter

 

1. Keeping Track of Media 
Brian Pankuch
Chemistry Department, Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016

2. Evaluating Search Engines for Chemistry - 2005
Harry E.Pence
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY

3. PowerPoint: Showing Chemistry Bigger Than Life
Ken Costello
Physical Science Department, Mesa Community College

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Abstracts of Papers

Brian Pankuch
Chemistry Department, Union County College
Cranford, NJ 07016

Harry E.Pence
SUNY Oneonta
Oneonta, NY

"... As noted in a previous article in this series, there are at least three important criteria that should be used to evaluate search engines: comprehensiveness, currency, and relevance. Comprehensiveness, the measure of what fraction of the total web the search engine index actually includes, is particularly important for chemists, because they are often looking for unusual information that may not be included in smaller search engine indices. Currency measures how often the search engine revisits sites to determine whether or not there have been any changes. This is important to all web searches, since failure to revisit sites allows dead links to be included in the index. The final important criterion is relevancy. Are the most useful sites listed early in the search results?