Wednesday, July 30, 2008

Module 4 tasks - Internet search 2 Google vs. Meta search

Seek and you *might* find...

Firstly, Copernic asked me if I meant etiquette?

Did you mean:
etiquette?
Search Results 1 - 20 of 69 for "netiquette"
There were only 69 results.

The first 5 results were from yahoo ads : (

1.
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Sponsored by: www.gloriastarr.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]


2.
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Sponsored by: www.cursormania.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]


3.
Download Free Emoticons
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Sponsored by: www.sweetim.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]


4.
Be a Professional Etiquette Consultant
Get paid to give advice on manners and etiquette. Book shows you how.
Sponsored by: www.fabjob.com [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]


5.
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Sponsored by: www.hermes-computers.ca [Found on Ads by Yahoo!]



Disappointing!


By contrast, the first 5 ‘hits’ on Google search were:

Netiquette Home Page -- A Service of Albion.com
This page is dedicated to the topic of network etiquette.www.albion.com/netiquette/ - 10k -
Cached - Similar pages

The Core Rules of Netiquette -- Excerpted from Netiquette by ...
The Core Rules of Netiquette are excerpted from the book Netiquette by Virginia Shea. Click on each rule for elaboration. ...www.albion.com/netiquette/corerules.html - 8k -
Cached - Similar pagesMore results from www.albion.com »

Netiquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Netiquette, a portmanteau of "network etiquette", is the convention on electronic forums (Usenet, mailing lists, live chat, and Internet forums) to ...en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netiquette - 35k -
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Internet Netiquette
Gives a summary of the important points of e-mail, mailing list, USENET, and chat etiquette.www.albury.net.au/new-users/netiquet.htm - 6k -
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Email Etiquette (Netiquette)
David Tuffley, ICT, Griffith Univ. Australia. A general guide for writing and sending email. Email that does not irritate and/offend the recipient is more ...www.cit.gu.edu.au/~davidt/email_etiquette.htm - 14k -
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I was surprised that on Copernic that there were so many ads. Google, on first glance gave much more promising results.


I tried Copernic another time and enabled all 13 available search engines.

The Copernic agent this time supplied 98 results, however, of the first 5 results, there were 2 ads, the first non-sponsored link was for Wikipedia, then 2 results for Albion (the publishers of the book Netiquette).

To explore further, I also performed searches using databases such as Intute and Librarian's Internet Index and found relevant results (some of which were replicated on Google) - but no advertising!

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