Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
Each search engine has it own capabilities in term of result precision however the main difference between them are the size of hits. Using the same search keywords, I have 2,200 for google.com, 77 for metacrawler.com and 3 for yahoo directory. In terms of interface I think google.com is good as the overall design is simple and user-friendly. It is user-friendly because whenever user enters the page, they will see a textbox and two buttons for user to search for anything that they key in. The loading time for google.com is fast as the site has no ads or pictures expect for the components that I mentioned above. However, for yahoo.com the site has many ads and moving pictures so the loading time of the page might be slow if the speed of the internet is not fast. For metacrawler.com, the interface is good but it is just a site that combines search engines together such as google, yahoo, ask.com, msn search. Therefore, if the user is lazy to access individual site to search, metacrawler.com is a good portal for them to search.
Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
Google.com – The strength about google is that the search results are more precise than the other 2 search engines. The results showed as more relevant to my keywords. However, the weakness of this search engines is that the result might be too big that the user is lazy to access all the results. Therefore, user might miss out some good or important information that at the back of the result list.
Yahoo.com (directory) – As it is human compiled, so the database of the directory is not big. That is the weakness of directory. However, the search results are small so user do not need to access pages of results. The selected sources mostly are of the best quality.
Metacrawler.com – This search engine does not recognize the search Booleans that I used as the results are words that are contained in the keywords. Therefore, some of the results might not be what the user wants. The strength of the Metacrawler.com that this is the best site for lazy people as the result from metacrawler.com is a compilation from google, yahoo, msn and ask.com. The results that user search in the site might look similar if they have search on google or yahoo.
Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
Google.com is a better search engine to me because it gives me more precision results as compare to the other 2 search engine. I get more resources than what is expected and most of the resources are relevant to my keywords and topic. However, sometimes the search results might be too big that I might left out some important sources at the back of the result list.
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