Friday, January 25, 2008 ♥
These two practical are on the comparison and evaluation on search effectiveness.
The different search facilities are the search engine (Yahoo), Meta search engine (Meta crawler) and subject directory (Galaxy). These search facilities have different characteristics.
The two similar characteristics are that they produce relevant results to the keywords used. Their formats of results are the same too. The design of the webpage is clear.
Whereas the differences are the size of results displayed.
I have found that galaxy has some weaknesses compared to the rest of the search engines.
Galaxy is more complicated than the rest. Galaxy has a very wide search areas compared to the rest, this resulted the irrelevancies of information. Hence, i have a hard time finding the information i need.
In conclusion, Yahoo search engine is considered one of the best search engines because of its simple and clear design of webpage and their specified and relevant results.
This activity has help me understand that there are different types of search engines not just yahoo search engine or google search engine which are commonly being used. After this activity, i believe this will help in my project research as i will have a broad areas of searching information.
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