[Sigia-l] help for class on search engine

[tOM Trottier]

Grid of capabilities sounds like a good idea, expanded.

But don't limit your course to general search engines. How about 
ebay, ibm, amazon, ... etc, and geographic, reverse phone, concept, 
music,  propinquity, ...  searches

Get the students to expand the grid by adding features.

Create a new grid showing examples of each feature in use in each 
engine, or how you have to transform to get it to work.

tOM

On 13 Mar 2005 at 16:24,
M. Camilla Beltrami <mariacamilla.beltrami at fastwebnet.it> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> I am preparing a class on Search Engines and as a part of it, I need
> to give the students some type of homework/exercise on the topic.
> The Professor I am teaching with wants to hand out a grid that
> should help them analyze search engines, but I think that a) the
> content of the grid is too old, b) it is too easy ... yes apparently
> I am very mean! :-)
> 
> The grid has questions like "Can you search in different languages"
> or "When you put in two or more keywords in the search box does it
> default to a boolean search?". To be a useful excercise the grid
...

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