Module 4 - Search Engine Task

Search Engine Task

For this task I am using Goolgle and Surfwax search engines.

Web Results 1 - 10 of about 93,900,000 for advanced internet users. (0.07 seconds)

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
Information about using your internet browser's Help Menu is available and linked ... Choose what web page will be shown when you start Internet Explorer. ...
www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/ - 16k - Cached - Similar pages

Advanced User's Internet Training Resources
VICNET Internet Training - More Advanced Users. Been connected to the Internet for a while? Want to get more out of the services it offers? ...
www.vicnet.net.au/training/advance.html - 16k - 11 Feb 2007 - Cached - Similar pages

Advanced Internet Users, School of Continuing Education ...
Advanced Internet Users. Nearly everyone knows how to use the Internet, but are you an expert? Can you find the number of people currently living in the ...
www3.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=6835 - 13k - Cached - Similar pages

News @ Cisco: China Supports Advanced Applications for Internet ...
Professor Li Xing, deputy director, of the CERNET Network Center said, "With the increase in the number of Internet users and the development of advanced ...
newsroom.cisco.com/dlls/global/asiapac/news/2005/pr_09-21.html - 48k - Cached - Similar pages

StatCounter Free invisible Web tracker, Hit counter and Web stats
Detailed visitor stats and a choice of graphical counters. An invisible counter is also available.
www.statcounter.com/ - 20k - Cached - Similar pages

Below are the Meta search (Surfwax) engine results showing 52 200 000 hits

SurfWax® Search Results © 2003-2006 SurfWax, Inc.

[ Full Text of Results | Results Stats ]

Displaying 30 of about 52,200,000 pages found

Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE [AllTheWeb]
pressbox - uk press - release distribution - press stor... [WiseNut] www.k12science.org/tutorials/advancedWindows 98 Using W... [CNN]
Advanced Internet Kiosk Free Download- Build Internet k... [WiseNut]
Windows 98 Using Windows 98: Exploring the Internet-Tip...[AllTheWeb]
Designing For Advanced Users [AllTheWeb]

Results Stats:
Timing (in milliseconds)
Prepare: 9
Search: 5180
Processing: 20 (19 for safety checking)
Display: 19
Total Time: 5228

[Found: 42, Displayed: 30, Invalid: 11, Bandwidth: 0, Duplicates: 1, Stale: 0 ]
AllTheWeb: 10 pages found in 322 ms (parsed in 1 ms)
WiseNut: 10 pages found in 278 ms (parsed in 1 ms)
CNN: 12 pages found in 1071 ms (parsed in 9 ms)
LookSmart: 10 pages found in 5165 ms (parsed in 3 ms)

The Google results seemed more promising with 93,900,000 hits against Surfwax meta search engines' 52,200,000 hits a possible reason for this,

Few meta-searchers allow you to delve into the largest, most useful search engine databases. They tend to return results from smaller and/or free search engines and miscellaneous free directories, often small and highly commercial.

UC Berkeley - Teaching Library Internet Workshops (nd)
Retrieved February, 13th, 2007 from
http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/MetaSearch.html