Search Engine: http://sg.yahoo.com/
Keywords Used: alcoholism amongst youth
URL & Purpose:
http://www.soberrecovery.com/forums/alcoholism/108936-i-need-views-about-alcholism.html
Advocacy - The purpose of this website is to share views on alcoholism
Comments on search result: excellent
Meta Search Engine: http://metacrawler.com/
Keywords Used: alcoholism amongst youth
URL & Purpose:
http://alcoholism.about.com/b/a/2003_10.htm
Information - The purpose of this website is to inform people about everything there is to know about alcoholism.
Comments on search result: excellent
Subject Directory : http://directory.google.com/
Keywords Used: alcoholism amongst youth
URL & Purpose: http://www.cadas.co.uk/
Business/marketing - The purpose of this website is to inform people about everything there is to know about alcoholism. It also provides a service for those who needs help.
Comments on search result: excellent
Reflections on Comparison and Evaluation on search effectiveness
Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.
All of them showed the results within a second and all showed relevant results.
Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?
Yahoo had more search results than the rest.
Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?
Yahoo. It had a wide variety of what I wanted to find.
Comment whether your research topic has any co-relation to the purposes of the resources retrieved.
All of them had very relevant results to what I wanted.
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