Practical 4&5

Search Enginge 1: Google.com
Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"
URL: http://www.news.uiuc.edu/news/05/0809videogames.html
Purpose: Information

Description:

Discussion on whether there are any strong links between violent video games and aggression.

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Search Enginge 2: Metacrawler.com
Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"
URL: http://wcco.com/specialreports/local_story_055165633.html

Purpose: Information/Advocacy
Description:
A publication of a special report to inform others about being addicted to online games.

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Search Enginge 3: Yahoo.com

Keywords used: "Effects of online gaming"

URL: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/4273125.stm

Purpose: News

Description:

Opinions from 2 people on whether online gaming is bad for you. One is a gamer, while the other is a gaming counsellor.

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Reflections

I've found that although Google.com and Yahoo.com return plenty of results for the search query, only a handful of about 10-15 results are useful, while the remainder is useless. On the other hand, Metacrawler.com returned only about 95 results and most of them are quite useful. Percentage wise, I would say that Metacrawler.com is more effective and effecient when searching for stuff online.

Google.com and Yahoo.com also mostly returned the same search results.