Sunday, 8 April 2007

Module 4 - Search Engine task

I used Google for this task and my first hit for "advanced internet users" was:

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial-CIESE www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/

Then I used Dogpile MetaSearch (searching search engines like Google, Yahoo, Msn, About.com at one go) and came up with the same first hit as Google did.

I noticed that the same first hit search result came up in both search engines. The second one, Dogpile MetaSearch, eventhough searching 4 search engines at one time, brought up less search results than Google (16,800 in Google and 62 in Dogpile). I found the search results very similar, so it is hard to say which one gave me the most promising results (the key search words are very general) but I prefer the Metasearch since it gives me a less overwhelming amount of results.


The first 5 hits of both searches:

Results 1 - 10 of about 16,800 for "advanced internet users". (0.04 seconds)


Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advance

Advanced Internet Users, School of Continuing Education
www3.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm
?id=6835
Msen Advanced Internet Users Links Page
www.msen.com/1997
/adv_links.html
Internet Guide Books
www.cln.org/guidebooks.html


Advanced
www.biu.ac.il/HU/ef/home/weaving/Advanced.html






All Search Engines 1 - 20 of 62 (About Results)


Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/ [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search, Ask.com]

Msen Advanced Internet Users Links Page
www.msen.com/1997/adv_links.html [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search]

Internet Guidebooks
www.cln.org/guidebooks.html [Found on Google, Yahoo! Search, MSN Search]

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE - Saving Web Pages
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/saveweb.html [Found on MSN Search, Ask.com]

Advanced guides to the Internet, World Wide Web, and Email
www.rockymtnweb.com/free/advanced/index.htm [Found on Yahoo! Search, MSN Search]


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