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Web-site roulette.(Have you heard?)
Out of curiosity, I plugged my name into some Internet search engines recently. It's a pretty common name, especially since I used "Jim" and not "James," so I didn't expect to find myself first on the results list. But I did expect other people would be there, and sometimes they were--most notably Jim Guest of the Missouri House of Representatives. That's a good thing because easy access to our elected officials is key to making this country work.
But at the top of the list on several search engines were a few vacation spots that weren't called Jim Guest, weren't owned by Jim Guest, and didn't appear to welcome only guests named Jim, so I was kind of puzzled.
Not so the people who work at Consumer WebWatch, Consumers Union's project to improve the credibility of online information.
In July, WebWatch published results of a study on consumers' understanding of--and their reactions to--how search engines work. WebWatch had found in an earlier study that 60 percent of Internet-savvy consumers didn't know that companies can, and do, pay to be listed ahead of their competitors in searches. The new study found that most respondents knew very little about how search engines compile, rank, and list results. When told the facts, they felt, at best, ...
- ConsumerReports.org and Consumer WebWatch Rate Search Engines; AskJeeves,...
- News wire article from: AScribe Business & Economics News Service September 16, 2003 700+ words
...s June 2003 research on search engines made us very aware that consumers...to better understand how search engines work," said Jim Guest, president of Consumers...believe the results from the search engines e-Ratings report will help...
- Search Engines: Do They Answer Your Questions?(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: The Information Advisor October 1, 2000 700+ words
Search engines remain one of the hottest aspect of...children--all of us regularly turn to search engines as a giant question-answering...journals and wire service stories about search engines. We thought it would be an interesting...
- Online Search Engines Lack Full Disclosure About Advertiser Relationships to...
- News wire article from: AScribe Business & Economics News Service November 8, 2004 700+ words
...the World Wide Web's most popular search engines still do not provide clear disclosures...fifteen of the Web's most-trafficked search engines including Google, Yahoo!, MSN...report shows many of the Web's top search engines have made improvements in disclosure...
- Introducing search engines. (Searching Data).
- Magazine article from: Software World Nugent, Rebeca July 1, 2003 700+ words
Search engines-everybody uses them, but how many...understanding of the main features of search engines is important to ensure that your site...listed by one or more of the major search engines is usually the most effective way...
- With specialty search engines.(searching the web)
- Teacher Librarian Gunn, Holly December 1, 2004 700+ words
...particular subject. Specialty search engines fall into two main categories...specific. Specialty service search engines provide services that are often not available from larger general search engines. Subject-specific search engines...
- Evaluating Web Search Engines: This guide can help users sort out these...
- Magazine article from: Information Today Gregory, Gwen M. January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher...Extreme Searcher's Guide to Web Search Engines: A Handbook for the Serious Searcher, there are "more search engines than most of us know what to do...
- Web search engines: search syntax and features.(Illustration)
- Magazine article from: Online Ojala, Marydee September 1, 2002 700+ words
...the search features inherent in Web search engines. To some extent, the idea was grounded...published almost 2 decades ago, when the "search engines" were BRS, Dialog, ORBIT, and the...volatility in the contemporary world of search engines particularly evident. The first chart...
- Searching with meta-search engines.(searching the web)
- Teacher Librarian Gunn, Holly February 1, 2004 700+ words
Meta-search engines do not search the Web themselves...they search databases created by search engines that spicier the Web, and present...The rationale for using meta-search engines is to save time by searching many...