Module 4 - Search Engines

1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search for the words: advanced internet users

• record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log

I chose to use Google for this task as this is the search engine that I am most familiar with, I typed in 'advanced internet users' and the first hit I got was for the following site http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/. The number of hits was huge, at around 74,400,000! Who wants to wade through all that??? I know I dont have the time, so I can see the need for refining my search.

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 exactly the same search

• 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?

As per the task in Module 4, I searched 'advanced internet users' using Copernicus, the main difference is that it only returned 20 results rather than 74,400,000. I also noticed that Copernicus gave me a more in depth search, hence the difference in the amount of sites that the 2 search engines returned. At first glance the two search methods gave me the same site as the first option, however Google then gave me all of the sites that it could find that mentioned those 3 words. At first glance I would think that Copernicus would give me the most promising results, but I would need to look into a few of the sites before I could be sure.