Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Searching the Internet Effectively

I decided to do a search on my favorite singer Alicia Keys lyrics for her song that she have out know called Try Sleeping With A Broken Heart. I used each of the four search strategies and had the results below. When i was finish with the search i copied the URL from each search and made each search link to the results. So here are the numbers and the results at that time.

First Search-Simple Search
Alicia
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=gmail&rls=gm&q=alicia&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=
Results 1 - 10 of about 56,800,000 for alicia. (0.15 seconds)


Second Search - Use Additional Keywords
Alicia Keys
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=gmail&rls=gm&q=alicia+keys&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=
Results 1 - 10 of about 29,200,000 for alicia keys. (0.14 seconds)


Third Search- Use Phrases
Alicia Keys Lyrics
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=gmail&rls=gm&q=alicia+keys+lyrics&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=g10&aql=&oq=
Results 1 - 10 of about 5,570,000 for alicia keys lyrics. (0.12 seconds)


Fourth Search - Boolean Operators
Alicia Keys Lyrics Try Sleep With A Broken Heart
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=gmail&rls=gm&q=alicia+keys+try+sleeping+with+a+broken+heart+lyrics&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=
Results 1 - 10 of about 210,000,000 for alicia keys try sleeping with a broken heart lyrics. (0.12 seconds)
Posted by Miss Jill at 5:15 PM

1 comment:

  1. ChrisFebruary 27, 2010 at 12:18 PM

    Try this again with these searches

    1. Alicia Keys
    2. Alicia Keys lyrics broken heart
    3. "Alicia Keys" lyrics try sleep with a broken heart
    4. "Alicia Keys" and lyrics and "Try sleep with a broken heart

    When you try the searches again, post it as a new blog post - title it "Searching the Internet Effectively, Take Two"

    -cmd

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