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lindiwe

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The students in a research class are investigating the use of Internet search engines. If these students want their search to result in the largest selection of files, which search engine should they use?
 
  1. Google.
  2. Lycos.
  3. Yahoo.
  4. Dogpile.

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The nurse researcher is conducting research about nursing interventions used in the treatment of a specific disease state.
 
  The researcher would like to include evidence for and against the effectiveness of treatments for the disease in the review of literature. Which database should the researcher access? 1. Medline Plus.
  2. Cochrane database of systematic reviews.
  3. CINAHL.
  4. OVID.


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Reply #1 on: Jul 8, 2018
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Rationale 1: Google is a search engine, but not a mega search engine.
Rationale 2: Lycos is a search engine, but not a mega search engine.
Rationale 3: Yahoo is a search engine, but not a mega search engine.
Rationale 4: Mega search engines combine results from several search engines. Dogpile is a mega search engine.

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Rationale 1: MedlinePlus is a Web site for consumer health information.
Rationale 2: The Cochrane database examines and includes the best evidence that is available in the literature about health care interventions.
Rationale 3: CINAHL is the basic CINAHL database and contains around 3,000 journals, but no full text is available.
Rationale 4: OVID is an Internet platform. Wolters Kluwer Health provides services through OVID.


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