Pract 4 And 5

This week, I explored the different search facilities with my search topics. Some of the search facilities includes Google, Dogpile as well as Yahoo Subject Directory.

Google



Basically, when I entered my search topic, which is impact of cyber-bullying on youths, it manage to return a huge amount of sites. Even so, not all of these were related to my search topic. However, a good thing is that sites that nearly match my phrase are ranked at the top of list, making searches easier and faster.

Dogpile



Unlike Google, Dogpile, which is meta-search engine, does not have its own database. Searches are obtained from numerous search engines such as Yahoo, Google and Ask. A plus point when using this site is that we are like searching from multiple search engines but all at once. Not only that, the list of results is much lesser as compared to Search engines. In other words, our list of results is narrowed down to only a few.

Yahoo Subject Directory



Unlike Google or Dogpile, Yahoo subject directory is human compiled. In other words, the result list is much lesser as compared to Goo or Dogpile. However, yahoo subject directories contains theses and article that are not able to be found on Google or Dogpile. Even so, none og these were relevant to my search topic