Swamp Soccer

Swamp soccer is an obscure sport that you've probably never heard of, much less thought having its own website on the internet. The official website of swamp soccer is simple and easy to find, not to mention extremely informative. Swamp soccer originates from the swamps of Finland, having its first tournament in 1997 with a grand total of 13 competing teams. It has become more widely popular and there are now tournaments ranging across Europe, including in Sweeden, Iceland, and the UK and there are over 200 teams. The website also includes contacts so people can start their own swamp soccer teams and leagues in their own countries. The rules of swamp soccer are included in the website, and there are three types of leagues, all-male, all-female, and mixed and each swamp soccer team has six players on it. There is no limit of how many players can be on the team or how many substitutions can be made in a game. The Mud Divers won the 2010 league of swamp soccer. The 2011 championship will take place in Edinburgh, the capital of Scotland, and the swamp soccer website even includes a map with which you can enter your zipcode and get directions to Edinburgh. Overall the website is helpful and unique because it tells plenty about the sport and encourages others to get involved in the sport.

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What makes an advanced Google search more advanced? When you do a regular Google search a word or phrase is typed into a search box, and results about the search topic magically appear. Sometimes though these results may not be exactly what the user is looking for, which is where the advanced search can be helpful. Advanced search allows the user to type in a specific phrase, and searches for the phrase as it appears. When the phrase "wild weedle appears" (referring to the Pokemon) is typed into the standard Google search, only the first result is the same as the advanced search results. In the standard results the next results appear from sites like the Wikipedia page for the Pokemon Weedle, and other online sources that anyone can update, whereas in the advanced search it only searches for the phrase "wild weedle appears" and does not give information that may not be relevant. It also has a feature that allows the user to specify words they do not want to see come up in their search results, and even has a tool in which to set the reading level of the pages that are found though the search. Although it some people think that the regular Google search is perfectly suitable, like Danielle Sekel, a senior at Wyoming Seminary who said "I have never used advanced google search, nor have I ever felt the need to."
Internet databases are also great tools to use, that are perhaps more reliable than a simple Google search. Databases can give a user access to information such as news paper articles spanning across decades, where in a Google search that usually will not be found. The only downside to databases is that the good ones usually cost money to use, which could be fine depending on how much they are actually used. For someone who does not research frequently although it may be a bit more difficult sometimes the Google Advanced search should be perfectly suitable, but if research is frequently done on historical topics, data bases could be quite helpful, and do not require spending hours upon hours scanning through old newspapers and books in a library. When I talked to Nikki O'Meara, a Misericordia graduate in psychology she brought up another possible downside to the advanced search feature "I like the advanced Google search. It's not difficult to use at all! This is coming from someone who grew up using computers though...someone who can hardly type www.google.com into their browser to search at all would have a hard time with the extra steps of course." But luckily there is still a regular Google search that is nice and simple for the not so tech savvy generations. All in all both the advanced Google search and databases are wonderful tools for the online community to use.