Wednesday, January 2, 2008

Thing 12: Other search engines

http://www.googleguy.de/google-yahoo/

I went to this site and it was interesting to see google and yahoo results side by side on the page. I searched "Human Genetic Variation" which is the topic in class this week and found that the two search engines were pretty much identical in the top 10 results generated, except they were in a little different order, Yahoo put wickipedia at the top of the list while google put it at the bottom of the first page for example. Also, only Yahoo displayed my favorite site "Sciencedaily.com" on the first page.

Interesting. I think I will have students look at this and search for a specific question that they have and see if any trends develop.

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