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The need for "Research Quality" search engines
Third of three experiments using your customary Internet search engine
Search for a combination of words and/or phrases
This variation of the experiment is more interesting in its results.
- Surf on a browser to your customary Internet search engine.
- The simplest form here is to launch a search for some combination of words that together are NOT a phrase, for example ... pizza steubenville ohio fast delivery. Note that there are no quotation marks when you look for combinations of words. Alternatively, you can include phrases among the search terms, provided the double quotes surround the phrases only ... apostrophe spelling "manual of style" errors.
- Review the summary results page. How many successful "hits" (results) are reported?
- Open the cached version of each of the first ten results. Record brief answers to these questions:
- (a) Are all of the words and/or phrases that you requested present?
- (b) If all of the words are present, do all of them appear at any time within the same paragraph?
- (c) What kinds of records / web pages show up among the top ten? For example, are they straight text? Are there catalog-style pages, long lists such as persons or books or activities?
If you have been estimating size of records, are these first ten records longer, shorter, or the same on average as those for single word and phrase searches?
What kind of information do you get when you search for a combination of words and/or phrases?
Does your customary Internet search engine do a good job for you when searching for a combination of words and/or phrases? Is it fast? Is it accurate? In each of the first ten hits, does your search engine give you what you are looking for?
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