- 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 used Google which is the Search Engine that i use everyday and got 102,000,000 hits and the first 5 Google Hits i got were:
Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
- Advanced User's Internet Training Resources
Advanced Internet Users, School of Continuing Education ...
http://newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2005/pr_09-21.html
Msen Advanced Internet Users Links Page
- 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?
Using Copernic Agent i searched 10 search engines and came up with 33 results, and as we can see that's a major difference to my Google search and you can't help but ask why such a difference.? Well from what i can see and from what i have learnt about Meta search agents such as Copernic in this Unit, single search engines such as Google gives us a lot of results, but Copernic gives us more specific and defined results, hence the smaller amount of hits.
The first 5 Copernic Hits are in the screenshot below (click to see full sized view)
