Saturday, October 25, 2008

1. Choose your most commonly used internet search engine and do a search with words of your choosing.

For my search I chose the keywords "surfing Australia". When I searched for this in Google it came up with 541,000 results. The first 5 hits from this search were:

Surfing Australia

Portal of information about the sport of surfing. Find upcoming events, clubs and membership, photo gallery, coaching, video downloads and contact details.
www.surfingaustralia.com/ - 23k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Surfing Australia

Surfing Victoria Surfing Australia Homepage Surfing Victoria is recognised by the State Government as the organising body for surfing in Victoria. ...
www.surfingaustralia.com/school.aspx?org=450 - 21k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Waveski Surfing Australia Home

It is provided by Waveski Surfing Australia Inc., the national association for the sport in Australia and will be regularly updated with stories and news on ...
www.waveskisurfingaust.com/ - 43k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Surfing Australia

Surfing in Australia, the best surf spots and areas on the East, South and West Coast.
www.surfing-waves.com/travel/australia.htm - 29k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this

Australia Surfing Australia surf travel guide atlas with spot ...

Surfing Australia surfing and travel guide of Australia by GlobalSurfers with surf forecasts and other travel info for surfers.
www.globalsurfers.com/country_details.cfm?land=Australia - 39k - Cached - Similar pages - Note this


2. Using copernicus or similar, set it up to search at least three search engines (including one that will search the 'deep web') and repeat eactly the same search.

Again i searched for the term "surfing Australia". However this time i was only presented with 56 results. I dont really see the point of using this program as it gives fewer results and the results that were given arent that good. I found that Googles results were a lot better on first glance because they provided not only websites but also a huge archive of images. The first 5 hits here were:

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