Searching Engine Week 13:

Planet Earth and The McKinley

The two seach engines that I decided to explore this week is Planet Earth ,and The McKinley Directory. I found these two engines under Index of Popular Search Engines. The word I decided to use this week is "Beaches".

Planet Earth's homepage looked very simple. It was not clutter with words, pictures, or icons that led you to other places. It also contained a list of other search engines and spiders. I typed in the word beach and I got a total of 17 documents. Not all of the documents contained the word beach in it. I clicked onto Beaches and Outdoor and all it gave me was 403 Forbidden. So I tried another link and it gave me the same think too. Well I started to get fed up because obviously this search engine sucks! By looking at the home page I should have known that this was not a very good search engine.

In The McKinely Directory I was a little more successful. When I typed the word beach I got back a total of 33 documents. Some of the documents did not contain the word beach in it too, but atleast the links worked. The best thing that I liked about this search engine was that it contained stars on the sides to indicate if it is good or bad. The search engine also contained a summary of the document.

The first document that caught my eye was Nude Beaches FAQ. This caught my attention because Hawaii was listed as one of the places with nude beaches. I clicked on to this just to see if they would mention Small Beach on Maui. I couldn't believe it, it was there the only difference is that they called it Lori's Team Report


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