Simple Searches

Let's begin a simple search on the topic of Eva Peron.

Click on the link below to load the Altavista Search engine. At the search entry screen, type the name and click on the search button.

Altavista will return the number of "hits" from the search engine that satisfy your search requirement. The hits are displayed 10 at a time with an index across the bottom that lets you zero in on which set of 10 to be displayed.

Follow any of the links by clicking on the underlined blue title and you will be connected to that Internet site.

Note also the additional information provided by Altavista. A short piece of text from the website, the actual URL or Internet Address, the date the page was last modified, its size, and the language of the page appears.

Another popular Internet search engine is Webcrawler. Click on the link below and do a similar search for Eva Peron.

Finally, run the search on the search engine Hotbot.

How do the results from the search engines differ? Do you prefer one to the other?