Internet Search Engines

Paper Summary:

A report of the results of the use of two search engines to elicit links to Web sites on topic of project management. Details the searches and "hits" found on the Google and Excite search engines. Discusses findings from several sites listed. Evaluates their merits for efficiency, content and comprehensiveness. 1 Chart.

From the Paper:

"This research reports the results of the use of two Internet search engines to elicit so-called "hits," or links to Web sites covering the topic of project management. The research will set forth the details of searches and hits encountered on the Google and Excite search engines and discuss findings from ten sites listed in these search engines, as well as evaluate their relative merits for efficiency, content, and comprehensiveness.

The fact that proprietary search engines, or sets of computer programs that function as instruments of and portals to online information retrieval (Search, 2001), are of variable quality has long been acknowledged by information-industry experts (Salpeter, 2001; Goldsborough, 2001). This owes something to the information-retrieval utilities, conventions, and ..."

More papers on Internet Search Engines:

• Analytical Essay # 144514 : "Search Engines as a Tool of Internet Internationalization"
• Essay # 2013 : "Search Engines: Warehouses of Information"
• Analytical Essay # 132073 : "Comparing the Search Engines"

APA Citation:

MLA Citation: