Module 4 - Searching the Web

So close yet so far, the end is almost near and i have only a few tasks to get through, lately i have been reflecting so much about this subject and the many tools i will take away from it, there is so much that people don't know about the internet & it's communication. I'm thinking that high schools should really make a compulsory internet subject, i think it is going to be needed in the future, i also think it should be a core subject for any bachelor degree, EVERY single person will use it & will be able to take this information away with them in any workforce chosen!!

Neways back to the topic, Searching the Web! I think this experiment will be fun.

So we have to choose our most commonly used search engine & do a search with words of my choosing. Well Google is the only place i go to search, no one else even gets a thought! Ok i'm going to search for "Sydney Wedding Venues"

OK WOW i got 164,000 hits!!! See below: I have copied & paste my results into paint for your reference!!

Here are the first five hits for this search:

Now.. I'm using Copernic to search through 3 search engines. Tried setting up the 3 search engines in Copernic, but i have no idea how to do it? I searched the help online and when i search it goes to sponsored links only?? I can't seem to find where i can insert my three different search engines to use, when i click on the "Web" icon, it goes straight to Copernic Find? . Does Copernic even have the option to trail through other search engines with our choosing? Argh this is so frustrating, i'm going to the webct discussion board to see if anyone else has had this problem. Be right back...

In the mean time i'm going to put "sydney wedding venues" in the Search box and choose "All" and see what happens. Yep it says no matching documents but brings up 83 web results. The results only seem tp come from Google & Ask.com?? The search doesn't even compare to searching directly from a search engine, why would anyone want to waste there time with this? Copernic is so basic and i find it so hard to use when searching the web...

I just had a look at Jamies blog and he seems to have the same problem when searching the "deep web"! Phew, i'm not the only one who can't navigate around this site.. OK I worked it out, the home version only allows you to search from their criteria. From the search results it did allow me to search other search engines including: Google, Ask.com, Windows Live & Yahoo.com . But no deep web! However the first five hits of this search brings up Google only. See below for my results!

Overall, i would NEVER use Copernic to trail the internet for searching the web, it needs to stick to searching your network and thats about it!!! Pretty ordinary experience with Copernic but can't go wrong with Google. Is results provided me with exactly what i was looking for & they were pretty accurate. Not that i need to use 164K results BUT it's better than 83 and gave me more options than Copernic.