I'll admit that up until this point, I thought google, yahoo, excite, altavista, looksmart, etc. were all the same! I had heard about the pros and cons of using search engines but I never really took them into consideration when doing search assignments.
Search engines such as google, excite, and altavista, are controlled and edited by spiders and crawlers. When using a search engine, the results may be influenced by advertisers, frequency of terms, and the popularity of the page.
Search directories such as looksmart and yahoo, may be influenced by editors because they are put together by humans. These results will usually have less hits compared to those results of a search engine.
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