PSU Northern Tier

 

Karen O

  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.& 2. I choose a master artist to research, Pablo Picasso. Ask had a total of 717,800 sites. It was helpful that ask had suggestions to refine my search and the new format had images that  were available at the first glance.
    3. 9  of the 10 sites were useful.  The one site was selling posters of the artist.
    5. The advanced search was very helpful, I refined my search to Picasso's "Blue Period" and 20 + searchs came up.
    6. Yes
    7. I like ask and goggle, they are much cleaner, yahoo has too many distractions.
    8. Google had 3,770, 000 sites. Yahoo had 9,650,000 sites.  Overall I do perfer ask, I like how it recommends other sites, and that images are available right away.
    9. I enjoy ask the best.  Ask jeeves was the first search engine that I worked with and overall it takes me less time to refine my searches.
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