Wednesday, March 21, 2012

Evaluation of website. :)

Title of website: Singapore Business Review
URL of the website: sbr.com.sg

Purpose

Are the aims of the website clearly stated?
No, the aim of the website wasn’t stated clearly. There wasn't any about us tab to state their aim. But as their website name suggests, it tells us that this website will provide us with news and reviews about information related to businesses.

Coverage

What is the coverage of the site? Is it comprehensive? What subject areas and materials are covered? Are there any pointers to further information that enhance the coverage of the site? Are the links to other sites useful?
This website covers areas such as Aviation, Economy and Information Technology. It has a lot of information about various subject areas and most of the information they have are all related to Singapore.

This website is also very comprehensive as they have a lot of articles. Just on the first page of the website already shows a lot of articles. And one article isn’t just made up of a few sentences but a few paragraphs.The articles mainly cover about the economy of Singapore and the business trends in Singapore. 



This website contains mostly text and pictures. Their pictures mostly describes their title for example it's an article about a certain airline company in Singapore, the picture will then be one of the airline's plane. 

Authority

Is this an authoritative source? Are there any reviews about this site or has it been included in any gateways or virtual libraries?
Yes. This is an authoritative source. There are more than 300,000 unique visitors that visit this website. And the visitors increases every month. They published many articles which later was published on the newspapers, for example new the NBN company MyRepublic. However, this website has not been included in any virtual libraries as i found this website not through a virtual library but a search engine.




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