Lesson 4 and 5

For this week, i learn that there are many search engines we have not used before. 2 of it i learn today was metacrawler and google directory. i have never ehard of this 2 search engine before in my life! Well shows that i am learning something in this CDS!!!

METACRAWLER

how does metacrawler work? when you conduct a search using meta search engine, the meta search engine will relay the search to to other search engine like google or yahoo. After that it goes for a round of filter and provides you with the relevant search. It is very useful as it gives you all the search available in all the different search engine. However, one bad point is it does not provide with many different search results.

GOOGLE DIRECTORY

Google Directory works like a street directory. Everything is categorized into different category. For example, looking for food in a street directory, we will go to the category and search for food and it will show all the different restaurants and eateries. Google Directory works this way. In a way, your search is narrow down as category is place to simplify all the search.

If you ask me, i prefer Metacrawler as it provides me with more information compared to Google Directory. However, different people will prefer different things.