Sunday, January 18, 2009

Module 4 Tasks - search engine task

Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing.

Google
Record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log
Using google I have searched the word 'netiquette' as one of the concepts of my assignment. the Google search resulted in 6,490,000 results for netiquette. The first result is http://www.albion.com/netiquette/

Copernic
Record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search. What differences did you notice? Why? Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results?
Searching The Web resulted in 30 hits.
This search appears initially to be more robust in that the hits are sites that have a page or sub page with the exact wording searched as opposed to the Google search that resulting in any website that contained the word in any context.

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