4th week

we were assigned to compare the effectiveness of various search engines this week and this is what i found! hees!

METACRAWLER



MetaCrawler is a metasearch engine that blends the top web search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask.com, About.com,  MIVA,  LookSmart and other popular search engines. MetaCrawler also provides users the option to search for images, video, news, yellow pages and white pages. It is used to provide the option to search for audio.

Metacrawler has a very small range of search result. (Proximal 3 pages)

However, the search results are obtained from links of other search engines like Google, Bing, etc.

Next i would like to talk on subject directories:

i have choosen galaxy for example.

GALAXY

Subject Directories like Galaxy consist of large catalogs or indexes of web sites covering a multitude of subjects that have been reviewed, gathered together and organized by human editors. Directories are organized hierarchically into many different subjects or categories. It is easy for a user to browse through the lists of web sites found under each subject or category.

The results are obtained from different organisation pages. (Research centre, museum)Results are relevant as mostly are from research centre and unis.They provide relevant calculations and scientific info on the topic.Galaxy has a wide range of search results.Galaxy allow us to search website from certain country but the results will only show us stories, politics, sports, entertainment and etc.

This is what i found out during this lesson i would try to use these two website next time when im conducting a search! Thanks to this CDS if not i wouldnt know that these two website exist! ;)