Week 5

Lecture;
Week fives lecture was on search engines. We discussed what a search engine is (a web-based program that gives you links to other sites relating to your search) and we also went through the different search engines used today. Google, Yahoo, AltaVista and AllTheWeb are the most commonly used yet there are many many more, some you might never have heard of. There are different sorts of search engines, some are created to only specify in one certain area of information. For example there is: SearchEdu.com, which is specifically for university sites, and specific branded search engines like MSN search which is from Microsoft. We also viewed some statistics from the U.S. search engine rankings in September 2007 and Google, a predicted was on top of them all with 57% followed by Yahoo on 23.7% then Microsoft, Ask and AOL all with low percentages. From this lecture i learnt that Google is definitely the top search engine throughout the world.


Activities;
Tips for using search engines

1. Use keywords
2. Refine your search (be more detailed)
3. Relevancy (keep your search relevant)
4. Try using indexes