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The need for "Research Quality" search engines
Second of three experiments using your customary Internet search engine
Search for a phrase
This experiment is a variation of the first.
- Surf on a browser to your customary Internet search engine.
- Launch a search for a phrase, for example, "UN Security Council". Put double quotation marks at the beginning and end of the phrase.
- Review the summary results page. How many successful "hits" (results) are reported?
- Glance briefly at the cached version of each of the first ten results. Record Yes/No answers to these questions:
- (a) Is the phrase that you want present?
- (b) Does that phrase appear more than once in many of the hits?
- (c) Are there any instances in which the entire phrase is not there, but many or all of the words show up?
Again, if you want to go deeper, note the size of the record in each case, in terms of either kilobytes or the number of paragraphs or clusters of words in the result.
What kind of information do you get when you search for a phrase?
Does your customary Internet search engine do a good job for you when searching for a phrase? Is it fast? Is it accurate? Does it give you what you were looking for?
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