Cedu 525 Week 1

This week I have been looking at various search engines and comparing them. I have tried a variety of different search engines over the years, but always end up going back to Google and Yahoo. From evaluating and making specific comparisons of other search engines, I found that there are circumstances where some of the less popular search engines would be beneficial for my students to use.

As an end of semester project in my computer access class, I had the students research an assigned celebrity and develop a PowerPoint on their celebrity. It turned out to be extremely tedious and laborious for them and me(they're all special needs). After comparing the search engines this week, I have found that I could have saved all of us a lot of frustration if I would have directed them to use a subject specific search engine, such as beaucoup.com. These types of search engines have search engines within them that search specific tasks, so my students would have gotten a tighter search for their celebrities and eliminated all of the unrelated hits they were sifting through. I will definitely remember this in the future when students I work with have to research specific categories of information like that.