Module 4 - Searching the Web

Searching the Web

 

Search Engine Task

The objective of this task is to compare the results of two searches using different search engine products. The first product used is the standard Google search and the specialized search engine product is Copernic. The search term used was 

‘Web 1.0 versus web 2.0 features’. The results were as follows:

1.     Google Search -  as you can see from the below screenshot Google retrieved:

·       275,000 hits

 

2.     Copernic Agent Professional – This search engine only found

·       49 hits

The most promising results appear to be with Copernic. Although it only provided 49 hits, these hits appear far more relevant to the search phrase than the Google results. From this result it appears the Copernic is a more accurate way of searching the internet and can remove all irrelevant or broken links from the search results.

 

Booelan Searching Task

Using bollean logic to perfom these searches can vary the results immensly. I performed these 3 scenarios with my search term ‘Web 1.0 web 2.0 features with the use of google and found the following:

Search term	Result	Conclusions
Web 1.0 features and web 2.0 features	53 million hits	The and operator only returned results where both terms were present and therefore reduced the hits and provided me with a more accurate search of what I was looking for.
Web 1.0 features or web 2.0 features	119 million hits	The mosts hits recorded was due to either term being present in the results.
Web 1.0 features and web 2.0 features  (note: and using google scholar)	117 thousand hits	The only way to specify university type results was to use google scholar.