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)
| 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 | 
www.cln.org/guidebooks.html
www.biu.ac.il/HU/ef/home/weaving/Advanced.html
| All Search Engines  1 - 20 of 62  (About Results) |  | 
 
 
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