Branton, Marilyn
SLM 521
Search Engines
Search Engine Survey
I. Travel
Search Engines:
Winner!
Cruise.com
cruise.com
Winner
because it is a well organized user friendly site. The site
provides a list of places to travel all over the world by just a click. Cruise.com provides maps, photographs of the
ships, and an option called compare prices.
The home page is easy to read providing all the information that one
would need to book a cruise.
Honorable Mention!
Royalcarribean.com
Honorable mention because
Royal Caribbean no matter how large or small the cruise they can provide the
traveler with options. They also provide
a site for the first time cruisers.
Dream on!
II. Medical
Search Engines:
Winner!
American Heart Association
Winner because the site is
filled with information on heart health.
You can put in your zip code to find local events in your
community. Most importantly there is a
“Heart Profilers” where in twenty minutes you can get incredible information on
your own heart condition.
Honorable
Mention!
High Blood Pressure – Treatment
and Medication
Honorable
mention because this site provides detailed information on blood pressure, and
how you can reduce blood pressure. Requesting the information is free by filling
out a short survey.
III. News
Search Engines:
Winner!
Google News
Winner because it gives the
user the ability to keyword search across thousands of news sources, while
always providing the ability to browse categories of news. Winner for Best News Search
Engine from Search Engine 2002.
Honorable
Mention!
Television
Honorable mention because it
lets you keyword search each and every word spoken during TV news broadcasts
from well-known news organizations.
·
FoxNews.com
·
CNN.com
·
MSNBC.com
·
CBSnews.com
·
Reuters.com
·
News.BBC.co.uk
One drawback is that not
every segment from every news program is placed on the web.
IV.
Law Search Engines:
Winner!
FindLaw
Winner because features
include News & Analysis; Lawyers;
Honorable
Mention!
Findlaw LawCrawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
Honorable mention because it
gives the user the ability to search for material from a wide range of sources,
including the sites for each of the federal agencies, the Library of Congress,
US Military, the Federal Judicial Center, all state government sites, a legal
dictionary, and scholarly articles and legal news in the Findlaw database.
V.
Shopping Search Engines:
Winner!
BizRate
Winner because it allows the
user to search for products from hundreds of online vendors. Features include merchant ratings, reviews,
tax, and shipping information, as well as a list of the users’ most recent
searches and recently viewed products.
Honorable
Mention!
DealTime
Honorable mention because of
the major comparison shopping search engines it provides.
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