Searching the Web
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What to do:
1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing. My first choice is Google.com My search term is Eczema
LOG ENTRY:record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log
The first hit on my Google.com results page is a paid ad from Blackmores.com.au . The next ad is from http://www.eczema.com.au/
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
I had Copernic set to use 14 search engines, with the noteable absense of Google (?)
LOG ENTRY:record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search.
The number of hits from Google.com was 6,530,000, the hits from Copernic were 48
Copernics first it was wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
What differences did you notice? The obvious difference that I first noticed was the number of results each search returned. I would have assumed that because Copernic was using 14 search engines that it would return the larger amount. That was not the cause in this instance, Goolge.com returned the larger amount.
Why? I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the absense of Google from the list of search engines. It does strike me as odd that Google is not on the list, but Bing is.
Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results? Google.com gave the most promising results in this instance.
1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing. My first choice is Google.com My search term is Eczema
LOG ENTRY:record the first hit and number of hits in your learning log
The first hit on my Google.com results page is a paid ad from Blackmores.com.au . The next ad is from http://www.eczema.com.au/
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
I had Copernic set to use 14 search engines, with the noteable absense of Google (?)
LOG ENTRY:record the number of hits in your learning log, and compare to your first search.
The number of hits from Google.com was 6,530,000, the hits from Copernic were 48
Copernics first it was wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
What differences did you notice? The obvious difference that I first noticed was the number of results each search returned. I would have assumed that because Copernic was using 14 search engines that it would return the larger amount. That was not the cause in this instance, Goolge.com returned the larger amount.
Why? I'm wondering if that has anything to do with the absense of Google from the list of search engines. It does strike me as odd that Google is not on the list, but Bing is.
Which search, on first glance gave you the most promising results? Google.com gave the most promising results in this instance.
3. save at least the first 5 hits of both searches
Copernic Search:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
- http://www.skincarephysicians.com/eczemanet/whatIs.html
- http://www.eczema.org.au/
- http://www.nationaleczema.org/
- http://www.eczema.org/
Google.com Search:
- Blackmores.com.au
- http://www.eczema.com.au/
- http://www.eczema.org.au/
- www.eczema.org.au/info/facts.html
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eczema
Allen, M n.d, "Module Four: Using the infosphere: taking & organising", Retrieved on July 22, 2009 from http://lms.curtin.edu.au/webapps/portal/frameset.jsp?tab_id=_2_1&url=%2fwebapps%2fblackboard%2fexecute%2flauncher%3ftype%3dCourse%26id%3d_18825_1%26url%3d
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