I had some fun doing this one. A few weeks ago my husband (Irv) and I were down at Golden Gardens at sunset when I saw a small animal in a brushy area by a small creek. At first I thought it was a very large rat, but I saw no tail. It looked about two or three pounds. Perfect thing to investigate using the previously created searchrolls of rollyo, mamma and dogpile. I also looked at mega search engines... google, yahoo and ask.com (ask.com lists unrelated comercial sites first).
I narrowed the critter down to a nutria or a mountain beaver and entered the same search phrases for each searchroll. Rollyo was my favorite though I did not find that much of a difference between it and dogpile. I didn't like mamma much because it first listed comercial sights that didnt' relate very closely to my inquieries and had a lot of ads next to the articles. They took up the right half of the page.
I found out that it was probably an elusive mountain beaver which makes me feel better than if it had been an invasive nutria. Nutrias have long rat like tails and can weigh up to 10-20 pounds.
Although it was dark and it was hard to see much detail, I don't think it had a tail.
Both searchrolls (rollyo and dogpile) had newspaper articles on the animals and a blog site (same one) that was real interesting. People blogged about their sightings and some bloggers even took pictures which they posted. These pictures helped me with the identification of my sighting.
Maybe if I used these engines more often, I would be more proficiant with them.
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I've never used rollyo, but I like dogpile. Nice to see you try some different search engines.
ReplyDeleteWant to see nutria? Go to the Tigard Pub Lib in Oregon and check out the army of them in the nearby creek. I used to live near there and always saw them.
Wonderful progress on these lessons and I enjoyed reading all your thoughtful comments. It's obvious that you've done the work. Thank you for the effort and time.
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