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Practical 8 Evaluation
I feel that the website is definitely not factual and has no accuracy at all. I think that the website is just a form of entertainment and is definitely not substantial at all as there is no solid backing to its contents.
Keywords: Impact, 3G, Phones
Keyword | Keyword variations |
| |
Impact | result |
3G | 3G |
Phones | Cellular, Mobile Phones |
One characteristic which differentiate the 3 search facilities are the amount of hits returned by each of them. The subject directory has the least amount of hits (8), while the meta search engine and the search engine has 82 and 29,800 hits respectively. From the numbers above it is obvious to note that the scope of the 3 search facilities differs greatly. The subject directory should only be used when the user knows what he/she is searching for. Otherwise it will be better to use the meta search engine or the search engine. As the search engine will return results from other search engines, the findings may differ from just finding from one search engine.
The other characteristic is the relevance level of each search facility. This is based on what I personally feel upon seeing the findings of each search facility. The subject directory has a relevance level of 90%, whereas the meta search engine and the search engine has a relevance level of 85% and 75% respectively. I think it is due to the fact that in my case I know what I am trying to find, thus the results returned using the search directory was exactly what I was looking for, thus proving itself as a very useful search tool so as long one knows what he/she is looking for.
The subject directory will be extremely useful if the user knows what he/she is searching for as it narrows down the results very efficiently and has links to other related topics and areas as well. Fortunately for my case the results, as the table above shown, is very ideal which I think is due to the fact that I know what I am searching for.
The search engine is the most common of all 3 search facility and I reckon is the most widely used search facility, covering a wide scope of findings and results as most users do not know exactly what they want to find. The bad point about it is that the findings are quite irrelevant and covers a wide area. But it would be good for users as they will have a clue as to what they are actually finding out about.
The meta search engine is quite similar with the search engine, except it searches through other search engines instead of having it’s own search engine. In comparison to the search engine I would suggest the meta search engine as it returns more relevant results possibly due to the fact it retrieves the most relevant results from other search engines.
On the whole, the search directory provided the best answers to my question. It has a narrow scope, considerable high level of relevance and doesn’t return back much hits, of which all are quite useful in helping me find out about my topic.