Thursday, August 27, 2009

Week 4 Tute Task (Part 2)

How do search engines rank the stuff they find on the internet?
Some search engines such as ‘Google’ are payed by users to get their web pages as highly ranked as possible. The content of the page also has a lot do with the rankings, as well as the keywords produced from the page and the popularity of it.

Who, or what, makes one page (that you might get in your search results) more useful than another one, so that it is put at the top of your search results?
If all of the keywords you type into the search bar match a specific page on Google that will make the page more useful to you than other pages Google brings up in the rankings.

What are some of your favourite search engines? Why do you like one more than others?
I would have to say Google is definitely my favourite search engine by far. The reason for that is probably because the school I went to has always only taught us to use Google as our main search engine. I began to use 'Yahoo' today for the Scavenger Hunt, and it just didn't perform up to the same standard as 'Google'.

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