Search Engines

Assignment 9 Search Engines
1. My search goal

I want to let many foreigner know best places in Korea. So, I want to find some information about travel of Korea.

2.Which key words you used and why.

- My key words is "travel of Korea" and "Seoul trip". At first, I searched "tavel of south Korea" but I didn't found specific sites. They only provide general information about Korea. So I narrowed my topic and searched again.

3. Tool I tried

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	looksmart	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡڡڡ�	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡ�	14
Natural language search engines	Ask jeeves	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡڡڡ�	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡ�	�ڡڡڡ�	18

Goole
- It provide a lot of resources almost 5,360,000. I could what I want!
- Since there was no commercial it was really convenient.
Gigablst
- The resorces are similar with Google. But It ia almost half.
- You can find more results from one site you chose.
- But I can't find any strong point.
Teoma
- The result is similar with Google.
- Thd font size is too small to read at a glance.
- If you search one then you can get three responds.
- "Refine suggstions to narrow your search" let you get an accessible result.
Dogfile
- Font size is too small
- Since I can see "REcent Searches" it is really convenient to review my search.
- It is possible to view by each serch engine. so I could find results from yahoo, google, ask jeeves etc. at a glace.
Mamma
- When I search "travel Korea," it provides only 83 result.
- It didn't show any bold font, It make me harder ot find relevant result.
ixquick
- There is blue stars next to the result. Each star refers to one top-ten listing
- The number appears in parentheses after the name of each search engine.
- You can choose the search engine you want, so you can narrow your search.
About.com
- The results are poor in substance
- There ar too many commercial it irritates me.
- Since you can change font size, It can be very useful for thd elder.
Beaucoup
- you can choose search engine.
- Design of webpage is boring.
Looksmart
- It provide "Related Directory Categories." From that I could very specific resorces.
- the resorces divided into 3 categories (Directory, Wep, Article)
- But redult are not many.
Ask Jeeves
- It is general but when you get a list of result, you can save some it separately. It is really convenient.

4. which tools gave the best (most relevant and reliable) information.

Most search engines provided similar resources.
Among them I think "ixquick" is best for search my topic.
It is very attractive to serch because I felt as if I can see a whole resources at a galance.
Also, the blue star are very useful to select information in a short time.

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