Near North Library Home Page -Search Engine Comparison
  Your Name:
Your Teacher:
Course Code:		 Remember advanced search techniques:
  • use Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT [ie. Gretzky and Lemieux]
  • use quotation marks around phrases [ie. "Rolling Stones", "genetically modified"]
  • use an * for truncation [ie. comput*]
  • use a ? wildcard if the database allows [ie. ne?t]
  Google   Webcrawler   Alta Vista   Infoseek  Canada.com   Toile Quebec   Voila France 
Dogpile  Metacrawler  Mamma.com  Hotbot  Yahoo Yahoo Canada 		Advantages might include accuracy of hits, inclusion of a summary, available in French as well as English, Canadian content...

Disadvantages might include too many commercial hits, lists leading to lists, no summaries, confusing layout...
  Name of the Search Engine #1

The URL of the Search Engine:

Your keywords: [ie. cloning sheep]

Your search string: [ie. clon* and sheep]

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of the first 10, how many look "on topic":

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Name of the Search Engine #2

The URL of the Search Engine:

Your keywords: [ie. cloning sheep]

Your search string: [ie. clon* and sheep]

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  Name of the Search Engine #3

The URL of the Search Engine:

Your keywords: [ie. cloning sheep]

Your search string: [ie. clon* and sheep]

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