Directions
Select two search engines, other than Yahoo. For example, you might choose AltaVista (very
large and very fast) or Lycos (also large, but contains only summaries of the pages it indexes,
not the full text) or Infoseek or OpenText. For each, look up information about the earthquake
in Afganistan first using the keyword earthquake and then using the keywords Afganistan earthquake. Record
your findings in the chart below. To help you, we have done the first one using Yahoo.
| NAME OF SEARCH ENGINE | KEYWORD | SITE MATCHES |
| Yahoo | earthquake | 234 |
| Yahoo | Afganistan earthquake | 14 |
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Which of the searches produced results that were most useful to you? Explain.
What advice would you give a classmate about finding information on the Internet?
Proceed to Activity #3.
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