3rd POSTING

Friday, March 20, 2009

For the third posting we need to write about the search engine by comparing one another. We need to discuss the differences and similarities of mamma.com; google scholar; eric digest and yahoo.com.

COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT SEARCH ENGINES

SIMILARITY

Mamma.com
- Look for more information.
- Search by key word.

Google scholar
- Search for variety information.
- Find by key word.

Eric digest
- Find more information.
- Browse by key word.

Yahoo.com
- Browse for more information.
- Seek out by key word.


DIFFERENCE
Mamma.com
- Home page with a slogan “The Mother of All Search Engines”.
- The biggest search engine among the four search engines.
- Can search the information in French language.
- As the mother of all the search engine, it provide extraordinary information.
- The search results are more specific and related to the key words.
- Less search results as the results is all specific and straight to the point.
- The recent search will be show in the right-hand side.
- There are search suggestions supplied by mamma.com.

Google scholar
- Home page is emphasizing the slogan “stand on the shoulders of giants”.
- More to the academic info and info that scholar might need.
- Not as wide as mamma.com. as the info mostly for scholar.
- More articles will be found here.
- Key authors will be recommending here as well.
- Mostly the web and info that found here is not related to the key word.
- Info is not specific to the key word and the search results are too many.
- We can know how many people have cited each of the search result.

Eric digest
- Search by keyword sometime tend to be harder than the other search engine.
- Shorts report mostly covered here.
- More to educational uses.
- Targeted specifically for educational community.
- Overview on a topic is provided and references prepared.

Yahoo.com
- A simple home page with the title “Yahoo!”
- Yahoo.com provide the most search results.
- The search suggestions given are on the top and the bottom of the web page.
- Too many information provided, but not every of it is helpful.
- Sponsor results provided and it is on the top of the page.