BSIM 1a Midterm Project.....

Question..

1. Select 3 different search engines.

2. Compare and Contrast the search engines on the basis of the different search

statements (e.g.boolean, phrase, proximity, truncation, field, etc.)

3. Make a conclusion based on your observation and discussion on item #2.

4. Your answers should be posted in your own blogspot.

5. Deadline is January 17, 2007. 6. Failure to submit will receive a grade of ZERO for the project.

Answer..

1. -Atavista.com

-Go.com

-Lycos.com

2. AltaVista besides traditional Boolean search options, AltaVista has many field restrictors, and also has an interesting forced phrase searching feature. In a basic AltaVista search, the search engine treats two terms together that are statistically most likely to be a phrase as a phrase, even without quotes.

Go.com supports Boolean searching and allows searching with many restrictors. Additionally, the advanced search provides a variety of specialized search engines for finding specific information. A popular option here is the Companies search, which results in company capsules and home page urls, with options for stock and press information.

Lycos also supports Boolean searching, and by far has the most extensive options for proximity searching as any search engine on the Web. Lycos, like Go.com, provides the option of searching by levels, where you can search within a previous set of results.

3. Based on my observation in item number 2, Atvista, Go, Lycos are

provides you a very few options for searchers to construct a detailed search.