For this practical, we were told to list out the keywords we used in our search query and also list down the variations for them.
It was then that I realised, podasting and blog had no other variations, not being so sure on what to do, I put a dash for the variation instead of listing them down lyk the rest. For forum there was discussion, developments for trend which sounded more accurate than fads. Confer for discuss and, well, RSS is just short for Really Simple Syndication.
We also learned how to make use of variables such as AND and OR to help define and widen our search. I used "(Trends OR developments) AND podcasting AND (forum OR blog OR discussion)".
I then compared 3 different search engines, one regular search engine, a meta search engine and lastly would be a directory.
I compared, Google, Dogpile and Yahoo Directories.
When I used my defined search query, for Google I was able to get back 773,000 hits ! Loads of results, and most of them were relevant.
When I searched on Dogpile, I only received about 3 pages of results, very little. When I did my own comparison against MetaCrawler, they gave me more hits than Dogpile did.
Lastly would be the Yahoo Directory, it gave me a directory of results related to what I was looking for, but they were limited as well.
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