There were two web sites that we were required to review this week. The first I looked at was the TextMap web site located at http://www.textmap.com/. I was not at all impressed with this site. Firstly, the labeling was quite poor. There was no clarification of the labeling or from where the data was obtained. This was an issue for me because if they don’t disclose where the data came from, how do you know the data is legit. Also, there was no real structure for the content or the site. Additionally the entity pages were confusing and there was no real helpful info on what the site does and it left me with more questions than answers. It is not a site that I would recommend.
The other site that was listed in the lesson was Google Sets website located at http://labs.google.com/sets. Since I have had such success with the regular Google search engine, I was expecting this to be a great site as well. Unfortunately, I was disappointed. My search results were subpar and the navigation was not good. I really did not like how the spell function worked or did not work as there were some errors and I really hated how the site would not allow me to modify a search from the results page. I can’t tell you how many times I have had to amend a search when I have been looking up stuff on the regular Google and the fact that I had to go back to the main page of Google Sets each time I wanted to fix my search request was annoying and a time waster. While this site does have possibilities, there is absolutely room for improvement and until that happens, I would not consider this a worthwhile site.