1. What is the text entered into the search box?
2. For the basic search, how many results are returned?
3. Using the first 10 results, how many appear to be useful?
4. Make links to three sites that appear to be useful.
5. Refine your search by using the advanced search features. What did you do to refine your search?
6. Are the results returned significantly different in number or content?
7. Compare and contrast the homepages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
8. Compare and contrast the results pages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
9. Which of the three do you find best? Why?
    
    
   Answers:
    
   1. Herbert Hoover
   2. Yahoo: 4,100,000, Google: 1,920,000, Ask: 501, 000
   3. Yahoo: all are useful , Google: all are useful, Ask: 8 out of 10
   4. Herbert Hoover 1, Herbert Hoover 2, Herbert Hoover 3
   5. Advanced Search: I searched Herbert Hoover only in the titles of websites
   6. The numbers dropped dramatically: Yahoo: 64,400, Google: 56,000, Ask: 19,600
   7. Yahoo: lots of extra links/very busy, Google: not confusing, very straight forward/plain, Ask: straight forward, seems to be the most updated/no dislikes.
   8. Yahoo: Not only gives text results but image results also on the same page, Google: Only gives text results(but the most out of the other search engines),
   Ask: Gives text results but also gives images and videos automatically.
   9. I think google gives you the most accurate information and simplest to search. Although, Ask gives you the images and videos which is nice.
    

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