Scribd
Upload
43 views

LIN Search Comp Upload

This document compares three search tools: Ask.com, Clusty.com, and Live.com. It shows that when searching for "fluency", all three tools return similar top results from Wikipedia and a reading website, with a sponsored result above. Clusty.com uniquely displays result numbers, allowing identification of the third result. The color-coding and mouseovers provide additional information about similarities and descriptions across the search tools.

Uploaded by

840927
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as XLS, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
43 views

LIN Search Comp Upload

This document compares three search tools: Ask.com, Clusty.com, and Live.com. It shows that when searching for "fluency", all three tools return similar top results from Wikipedia and a reading website, with a sponsored result above. Clusty.com uniquely displays result numbers, allowing identification of the third result. The color-coding and mouseovers provide additional information about similarities and descriptions across the search tools.

Uploaded by

840927
Copyright
© Attribution Non-Commercial (BY-NC)
Available Formats
Download as XLS, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 2

Search Tools

Traditional Search Meta-search Engine


Directory Site
Engine
Name of
http://www.ask.com/ http://clusty.com/ http://www.live.com/
Website
What to
search fluency fluency fluency
see also News, Images,
see also Images,News, Q&A see also News, Images,
Wikipedia, Blogs, Jobs,
Beta, More>> Video, Maps, More>>
More>>

The sponsored result


information is called
The sponsored result
The sponsored result Improve Reading
information is called
information is called Improve Fluency, but this website
Improve Reading Fluency
Reading Fluency is different with other two.
(http://www.raz-kids.com/) (http://www.readnaturally.c
(http://www.raz-kids.com/)
om/products/improvefluenc
y.htm)

The top result is Fluency - The top result is Fluency -


The top result is Put Reading
Wikipedia, the free Wikipedia, the free
First -- K-3 (fluency)
encyclopedia encyclopedia

The second result is Put The second result is Put


The second result is
Reading First -- K-3 Reading First -- K-3
Encyclopedia: Fluency
(fluency) (fluency)

It shows us the numbers of It shows us the numbers It shows us the numbers


the top results. of the top results. of the top results.

What's
the
result

It don 't u se nu mber It don't use number


to indicate the to indicate the
res ul ts . results.
We
Overall rating:
1.This three
website are the useful website for search.
2.The sponsored result means:
when we search, above of the most top result is called "sponsored result".
When we search, they all have sponsored result.

3."Clusty.com" and "www.live.com" get the same top result information.

4."Clusty.com"shows us the number of the result,we can figure out the"Home


Fluency Voice Technology"is the third result.
5.Check the color means: every aspect, if they
are the same result or the same function, they have the same color.
6.If
you put mouse on some squares, which can shows some discribtion.

You might also like