Understanding Internet Searching

Reflect on and apply your learning

Select a topic of interest to you from your current studies.

Try searching for it on at least three different search engines (eg Bing, Dogpile, DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Google, WolframAlpha).

Compare the results. What are the differences and similarities between the first page of information on each search engine? How about if you go deeper in to page 5 or beyond?

Select one or two of the search engines and repeat the search, this time using different words to describe the topic. Reflect on the impact this has on your search.

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