Search Engine Task

25/08/08
Oh what a disastrous morning this have been. Downloading of Java yesterday for my previous tasks has in some way affected uploading images to my blog. It kept telling me that it is something to do with Java so I removed the Java and tried again. But once the image uploads and I click done it closes the whole browser section. So I restarted my computer did not work, shut down my computer for some times and restarted it, did not work. So I gave up on uploading images to my blog. As a last resort for the time being I just simply copied all my screen shots to my documents and left it there without uploading.

26/08/08
Last night before I went to bed I copied all my screen shots which I saved in my documents to a compatible disk and brought it to work this morning to upload the images to the blog. Thank god it worked. I can't do much at my work computer because it has lots of administrative limitations which will not allow me to do most of my Uni tasks at work computer after hours as well. I try to use the work computer after hours so that I could concentrate without my kids distraction but that hardly works for me.

I thought I am never going get this sorted and finish my task on time. I think it's the god will that I should finish that is why it worked.

1. Choose your most commonly used Internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing.

I used Google search engine which I normally use for any of my searches to do a search on "Information and Communication are related". The hits results as follows;

Number of Hits - 37,000,300
Time - 0.32 seconds


First Hit - Scholarly articles for Information and Communication are related
So when I clicked on the first Scholar Articles the number of hits reduced to 4,290,000.

To my understanding this means it is only looking for "Scholar" articles in the web. That is why the number of hits has reduced from 37,000,300 to 4,290,000.

2. 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.

Using the Copernic search tool I did the same search for "Communication and Information are related" and the following results came.

No of Hits - 87



I could not do any deep web setup in the free version of the copernic desktop search tool. All what I did was in the advanced setting I changed the preferences as I wanted it to search the web. I believe this is a search tool which goes and search in the other search engines to find the exact match sources. When I had a look through the results It has picked articles from Google, Yahoo, Ask and few other web search engines which matched my search words.

The URLs or hits which came up in Google and copernic are pretty much the same ones which came on the first page. I believe copernic will provide me with more specific results compared to mass Google search.