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What is the text entered into the search box? mitosis
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For the basic search, how many results are returned? Google-4,510,000 in 0.14 seconds
Ask -513,000 Yahoo158,610,000
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Using the first 10 results, how many appear to be useful? Basically all 10 in Google-6 in Ask- and 5 in Yahoo
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Make links to three sites that appear to be useful.
Refine your search by using the advanced search features. What did you do to refine your search?
I added the word anaphase and the search was narrowed to 579,000 in 0.09 seconds. Google
430,000 Ask
789,000 Yahoo
Are the results returned significantly different in number or content?
Yes, the search is restricted to the anaphase section of mitosis. Difference was great in each search engine. If I added more text to refine the search it would have narrowed the topic even more.
Compare and contrast the homepages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
My favorite search engine is Mozilla FirefoxLink LOVE IT- one drawback can't access it at Towanda!
Goggle OKAY no advertising and very easy to use-like the google account to make my own webpage-like the access to delicious
Yahoo-YUK Way too much advertising and not very user friendly
Jeeves-very basic-liked the added my stuff page
Compare and contrast the results pages for each of the search engines. What features do you like/dislike about them?
Which of the three do you find best? Why?
I know it is not one of the listed search engines, but Mozilla Firefox is the BEST!!!
Next up, for me would be Google-I like using my Google account when I use Google.
Yahoo and Jeeves are last place. Too much information, and not very user friendly.
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Links for Webquests:
Genetics
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