...MODULE 2 – WRITTEN ASSIGNMENT 2 Module 2 – Written Assignment 2 Thomas Edison State College Module 2 – Written Assignment 2 This paper describes why search engines and databases produce different types of queried results. Two (2) separate search tools were used and this paper attempts to explain why there are differences in search results obtained from each search tool and evaluate the quality of their search results. Module 2 – Written Assignment 2 Searching for information via the Internet will always produce invariable results. This notion can be exaggerated depending upon the tools one uses to query for information. That is not to say that the Internet cannot be used as a valuable research tool. On the contrary, studies have been conducted to support the use of Internet-based research in many fields, including the medical field (Ahern, 2005). While the Internet search engine can be a powerful tool for research, it should be noted that not all search engine tools are created equal. Different Internet search engines will in fact return different results. Therefore, great care must be taken to ensure that the appropriate search engine is chosen for the job. Some of the different types of search engines include: Crawlers, Directories, Meta, Hybrid and Specialty. Search query options enable users to refine their searches in an attempt to find more relevant information. These particular options vary according to the search engine. Additionally...
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...Assignment 2.2 While Google is a great search engine, there are many other search engines to consider when trying to locate information on the Internet. Conduct searches for a topic of your choice using the following search engines, and document the similarities and differences in the search results: * Google.com * Clusty.com * Dogpile.com * Rollyo.com After conducting my research over the following search engines I was kind of interested in what some of the sites had to offer on specific subjects but I notice that google kind of gave me a more about the subject that I chose, and even though clusty and dogpile had a few category listed I really feel that google gave more. What do these variances in search results suggest about the information you find? How can you apply that concept as you do Internet research? I feel the variances suggest that the information that is given might have to ensure that you actually break down the topic that you are actually looking for. And try to pinpoint what you really need to find. Visit http://thesearchenginelist.com to learn about specialized search engines and do the following: * List three all-purpose search engines that were not discussed in the textbook. Hotbot, alltheweb, galaxy. * List three blog search engines. Icerocket, sphere, Technorati. * List four job search engines for U.S. positions. Careerbuilder.com, craigslist, CV fox, dice. * List a game search engine. Cheatsearch...
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... Web search engine SUBMITTED TO: MD MOQBUL HOSSAIN BHUIYA PROFESSOR DEPT. OF MIS UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA SUBMITTED BY: Sanjida Sharmin ROLL# MIS 06-83 UNIVERSITY OF DHAKA A paper on Web search engine ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I would like to express my gratitude to our course instructor MD MOQBUL HOSSAIN BHUIYA for inspiring me to know about INFORMATION TECHONOLOGY and then prepare an assignment on web search engine. This is the way I want to know the INFORMATION TECHONOLOGY and I feel myself sufficient now. Although, it is little about the topic, however I must cite that he gave me the apt direction and showed me the accurate way to complete the assignment in a creative way. TABLE OF CONTENTS Index Page General information 5 1. History 5-7 2. How it works 8-9 3. List of search engine 10-13 4. Market share 14 5. Bias 14 6. Facilities 14 7. Why I choose this topic??? 14 8. Reference 15 General information A web search engine is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web and FTP servers. The search results are generally presented...
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...through class reading assignments and exercises to assist me in finding the most effective solution. The Obstacle When I was a student at the University of Hartford, I took an Introduction to Psychology course. My professor would spend class time telling us stories about his experiences during the years he practiced. The stories were interesting and lead to some good class discussion. However, the tests given in class were bases completely on the reading assignments. As a freshman in college, I was determined to stay on track. I was diligent with my reading and took immaculate notes. Despite my efforts I found myself reading assignments multiple times and still not absorbing the information that was being presented. When I received a D on my first Psychology test, I knew something had to change. I have chosen to research ways to improve reading comprehension. I am aware that reading assignments will increase in length and substance the further I advance in my degree program. I want to find strategies that are not only effective in helping me to absorb what I am reading but will also allow me to do so in a time efficient manner. Searching For Solutions Now that I have identified the problem, my next step toward a solution is to seek out strategies that will allow me to use my academic strengths to improve my area of weakness. I have heard of such strategies as SQ3R (Muskingum College, n.d.) but until now, I did not take the time to actively search for a system that...
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...Assignment Instructions Deadline submission : 28/ 6 / 2016 Weighting : 15% ( Report and presentations are included) Typing : Times New Roman at 12 point with 1.5 or double spacing Referencing : Follow the standard format of references. ( Harvard or APA ) Answer the following questions. Ensure that answer to each question is typed on separate sheets. Please type the answers neatly. Answers which violate the above guidelines will not be evaluated. Please give independent answers, while discussion is okay. Do not copy paste information from Internet. Copying shall be dealt with strictly ( zero marks). ______________________________________________________________________________ Question 1 How are computers used in :- (a) Educations Sectors (b) Banking and Finance Sectors (c) Medicines Sectors (d) Business Sectors (e) Entertainment and Recreation Sectors Identify and briefly describe the benefits of using computers in various sectors. Provide with examples of companies who increase in productivity and revenue. 200-250 word count Question 2 How are biometric technologies being used, and how likely are they to be used in the future? What are the benefits and successes of biometric technologies? What are the challenges to the use of biometric technologies? What should enterprises keep in mind when considering biometric technologies? 200-250 word count Question 3 There are several Web search engines such...
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...unstructured information and data stand in the way of greater business knowledge. An effective business intelligence tool must be able to access quality information from a variety of sources in a variety of forms, and it must support people as they search for and analyze that information. The EBizPort system was designed to address information needs for the business/IT community. EBizPort’s collection-building process is designed to acquire credible, timely, and relevant information. The user interface provides access to collected and metasearched resources using innovative tools for summarization, categorization, and visualization. The effectiveness, efficiency, usability, and information quality of the EBizPort system were measured. EBizPort significantly outperformed Brint, a business search portal, in search effectiveness, information quality, user satisfaction, and usability. Users particularly liked EBizPort’s clean and user-friendly interface. Results from our evaluation study suggest that the visualization function added value to the search and analysis process, that the generalizable collection-building technique can be useful for domain-specific information searching on the Web, and that the search interface was important for Web search and browse support. load (Bowman, Danzig, Manber, & Schwartz, 1994), and the questionable quality of many resources available on the Web. Appropriately adapted collection building and metasearching...
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...SEARCH ENGINES. A search engine is a web-based program that is used by web users to locate information on the world wide web.Specific keywords are used to search the required information then the search engine returns a list of documents where these words have been found.There are different search engines available on the internet ,each has its on features and abilities.Users choose a search engine according to the type of information they want to search.An example,a user who wants information that is audio-visual will use YouTube instead of the google search engine while a user interested in research work from other scholars on a certain field will use the google scholar search engine. 1. Yahoo! Search engine. Yahooo is an internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of world websites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories and searches. 2. Ask.com search engine. This a question answering focus search engine.Searches are entered in form of questions and the results returned are answers to those questions. 3. Web Crawler. This a metasearch engine that searches and shows top search results from google search and Yahoo search.A metasearch engine is a search engine that searches through a number of search engines simultaneously. 4. Google search engine. This the world’s most popular search engine.It was invented in 1997 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were Stanford University students.They made it in a class project and named it BackRub.It...
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...about if a search engine was offering you results that were reliable and had credentials insteading of misleading or aimlessly leading you around? I have the a tool that will resolve your problem and this genuine search engine is titled "Sweet Search." Get ready to be mesmerized by how user friendly, detailed/specific, organized, and dependable this tool can be. In today's world, everytime we need to find information for a essay or something as simple as cooking recipes, we instantly think of using Google search engine which comes with results that sometimes are irrelevant to your topic,includes advertisements and aren't always monitored. Sweet Search provides you the comfort that Google along with other search engines lack. It's search engine is compiled of 35,000 exlcusive websites that are carefully evaluated by research experts, librarians, and teachers. The voluntary staff members dedicate over 100,000 hours into researching and gathering of information and credentials into creating over 700 web guides and thousands of articles. Another positive factor is that each website is constantly inspected as well as reviewed to ensure that they're up to date on the information being provided. Some of their information are derive from famous resources such as the Library of Congress, the Smithsonians, PBS, and university websites. It excludes results that are from malicious or spam websites. Search results are improved, thanks to Yo Link in cooperation with Sweet Search. This...
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...Search Engine Industry History of search engine The need for search services grew with the expanding reach and magnitude of the World Wide Web. One of the earliest search services, Yahoo!, was a directory of sites selected and organized into categories by human editors. The Web soon grew too large for directory-based search. AltaVista invented technology that automated search, relying on software “spiders” that created a searchable index of page contents and on algorithms that ranked page relevance based on the frequency of keyword references. Yahoo! added AltaVista’s algorithmic search engine, but in 1998 replaced AltaVista with Inktomi, which used parallel-processing networks to offer faster processing and a larger index. As website developers exploited search algorithms by repeating keywords on their pages, searches increasingly returned irrelevant listings—”spam”—that frustrated users. In 1998, Sergey Brin and Larry Page tackled this problem as graduate students at Stanford. Their PageRank algorithm reliably delivered more relevant searches by favoring pages that were referenced—”linked to”—by other pages. These links were called “votes,” because they signaled that another page’s webmaster had decided that the focal page deserved attention. The focal page’s importance was determined by counting the number of votes it received, weighting votes more heavily when they were cast by pages that Google had previously deemed to be important. This approach required PageRank to...
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...IIT Kharagpur MIS Term Paper The Future of Web Search Submitted To: Submitted By: Dr. Prithwis Mukerjee Amod Kumar Gupta 10BM60007 Abstract The internet was made available for public use in the mid 1990s.Since then it has changed our life in a way few other things have been able to, in the past. The internet consists of nearly 487bn gigabytes (GB) of data. A search engine helps us find what we want in this endless sea of data. It is up to the search engine to prevent us from getting lost. So search engines are becoming increasingly important in the internet world. This paper will cover the current search engine technologies, problems with the current technology and the improvements to build better web search engines. Introduction The number of internet users are around 1.97 billion as of 30 June 2010. It is incorporated in virtually all aspect of modern human life. The Internet consists of a vast range of information resources and services. Buried in which lies information of interest . The trick is to find it. This is where search engines play a critical role. A web search engine is designed to search for information, resulting in the generation of a list of results. The result will consist of web pages, images, video and other types of files. Archie was one of the first search engines.. It was created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, Bill...
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...A search engine works by allowing users to input and submit data online and in return, the user receives related search results. It generates revenues between advertising on its websites and selling its technology to other sites (Web search engine). The capability to take the search engine’s technology and business model away from its home country to other locations for business purposes is the exportability of a search engine’s technology and business model (History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today). This process involves satisfactory preparation which includes gathering of information that will be relevant to the local culture of the new location, review of Governments laws and restrictions that may apply, and language translation for the host country if it is different from the home country's language (History of Search Engines: From 1945 to Google Today) . Google was viewed by many countries as a threat because they believed Google was threatening their cultural values and norms leading to Google running into many issues in trying to expand itself internationally. Many people felt that by allowing Google to have free reign in their countries it would have allowed them to impose the Anglo-Saxon outlook in a variety of different topics, like history, pop-culture, and even fashion. Many European and Asian countries opposed Google a few different ways to ensure that their culture was not diluted by American society. The most popular has been the creation...
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...No Results Found For: Google Success in China Google currently controls over 80% of the internet search engine business for both computers and cell phones. It would only make sense that they would attempt to dive into a new market with the world’s largest internet market, China. Even with a substantial market share in the industry, obstacles occurred almost immediately with their endeavor. Google’s fight to conduct business in China provides excellent examples of the planning processes that should take place for a business to grow and thrive. Google executives realized that they would encounter an up-hill battle with the communist country and the challenges that would face them. They sought to retain the most qualified people to make this entrance into this foreign market successful. They undoubtedly had very little experience in this part of the world and would need the personnel resources that would afford them the knowledge that they would require to be successful in achieving globalization for their search engine business. They exercised their might and aggressively hired a young Kai-Fu Lee, celebrated computer scientist. He would assist in the responsibilities of a smooth transition into the search engine business in China. His experience while working at Microsoft would almost certainly prove invaluable. Google has branched out to the four corners of the world with offices in the United Kingdom, India, Canada, Ireland, Egypt and Brazil. This many locations requires...
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...one of the main key players in the search of pursuing the dream career. As we are living in a country with the most advance in the technology, where people able to search and look for their dream career through online search engine with no limited on the information that they can find. But the only concern was which search engine out there in the world wide web that have the capable to narrow down in giving the most up to date and right information that the searchers needed for their career search. The most recent battle in the way of comparing the best search engine web sites was between Google and About.com; they were both famous search engine due to its best features but which engine will win the best and most useful search sites to the users to search for their dream career. Before I’m going to discuss about the different and the useful of each search engine, I want to talk a little about my dream job. My dream job is to become a Mechanical Engineering and I’m going to used these different types of search engine to find information that relate or useful to my dream job. My main purpose is to search for the number of open jobs for Mechanical Engineering in the U.S, so I can get the idea of percentage of successful getting a job after I graduate. And now, I am going to discuss the useful of Google search engine first. The most basic search results and the three main features that I am pointing it out about Google search engine was Anytime, Nearby, and Reading...
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...Better Search Engine EXECUTIVE SUMMARY INTRODUCTION Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and return a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs; however, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web. Web search engines work by sending out a spider to fetch as many documents as possible. Another program, called an indexer, then reads these documents and creates an index based on the words contain in each document. Each search engine uses a proprietary algorithm to create its indices such that, ideally, only meaningful results are returned for each query. As many website owners rely on search engines to send traffic to their website and entire industry has grown around the idea of optimizing Web content to improve your placement in search engine results. One of these was Google, one of the leading internet technologies and advertising companies in the world. The company specializes in internet search engines and related advertising services. It maintains a large index of web sites and other online content, which are freely available through its search engine. The company generates revenue primarily by delivering relevant, online advertising. Google is one of the premier internet brands in the world and also holds strong market position in global search market...
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...largest search engine with a considerable fan following and market share of around 4%. Recently Ask.com has expanded into European and Asian market. Ask.com is known for its technical innovation even thought it is not a market leader in search engine technology, yet it is one search engine which refuses to fade away. Interestingly it has been seen that while Google continues to expand, while Yahoo and Windows Live are struggling to maintain their market share, and one time giant Time Warner (AOL) is now reduced to a small player and gets its search results from Google, Ask.com has managed to retain its small but considerable market share. This may be attributed to heavy spending by Ask’s parent company IAC on advertising and Marketing. But continuous innovation like Ask3D which merges all results with images and maps in same result page, technological advance like morph which intelligently shows most relevant result type, and sometimes cashing on Market situations like the introduction of AskEraser after privacy concerns erupted when AOL released data of 650,000 users have managed to keep Ask.com in the market2. It has not been shy of competing with the market leaders like Google, its Ask3D feature was a winner over Google’s Universal Search technology3. Its features are so appealing that some of them have been copied by Yahoo and Windows Live like the display of related searches or suggested queries. Ask.com may not seem to rival Google, but its continued survival in search market...
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