Sunday, May 3, 2009

Searching the Web

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

My first search was for “Beauty Tips” through Google. The first site that came up on the list was www.free-beauty-tips.com/. The total hits received were 38 400 000.

2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search

After searching through Copernic Agent the first hit was http://www.beautyheaven.com/ and I had a total of 63 hits. I searched 14 search engines and I was surprised that there were only 63 hits. I had a little poke around to try to understand why there weren’t more results. There is a function so you can choose how many results are shown per search engine, which explained the low number of results. It is definitely a useful program for searching multiple engines and it also has some other good functions like a favourites section, analysis tool, filtering tool and much more.


3. save at least the first 5 hits of both searches.



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