>>>> Practical 4 & 5 <<<<<<

My Topic : Discuss the impact of computer crimes on businesses

Link 1
http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/security/soa/Aust-computer-crime-impact-down-says-survey/0,130061744,139193086,00.htm using Google Search Engine.
Keyword : Impact of computer crime in business

Comments on Search Results :
- the size of hits is 1,820,000.
- This website that I searched is quite good and relevant to my topic. It is because the website writes about the news of the computer crime and the statistic of the computer crime in Australia.
- The format of this website is HTML.

Link 2
http://www.artsci.gmcc.ab.ca/people/sumraini/crimes.html using MetaCrawler Search Engine.
Keyword : The effect of computer crime in business
Comments on Search Results :
- The size of the hits is 60.
- This website that I had researched is good and also relevant to my topic. The website discussing what is the computer crime is, how to occur the computer crime, types of computer crime and some tips for prevent the computer crime.
- The ways I research is just type the key words on the MetaCrawler search toolbar.

Link 3
http://www.crime-research.org/articles/2894/ using Google Directory
Keyword : The effect of the computer crime in business
Comments on Search Results :
- The size of the hits is 40,200
- This website that I had researched is relevant to my chosen topic. The website is news from India that wrote about the effect of cyber crime. Therefore, the news also wrote how the cyber crime effects to other computer.

Q&A
1. Compare the search results. Identify 2 characteristics that make all 3 search facilities similar or different from one another.

The three search facilities format is HTML format.
Result using Google search engine is the most, the size of hits is 1,820,000. However, using MetaCrawler search engine is the most less.

2. Do you find any strength/weakness of each of them, in terms of search capability?

The strength of Google search engine is have many results can let you to choose it, however, the some result of search or hits is not relevant to my keywords.

3. Overall, which search facility best meet your searching needs? Why?

My search facility that I needs is the search engine where provided by Google. It is because there have many results or hits can let me choose.