Search: Teen Blogging

Yahoo

AltaVista

Gigablast

Google/Vivisimo

Ask

Devilfinder

webcrawler

How long did it take? 

 .27 seconds

 Didn’t say but a couple of seconds

   Didn’t say but a couple of seconds

 .42 seconds

  Didn’t say but a couple of seconds

  Didn’t say but a couple of seconds

Didn’t say but a couple of seconds

How many hits? 

 4,360,000

 3,420,000

 94,712

 7,580,000

 495,400

 195

96

How many hits on page one had relevant information?

 All 10

 All 10 (same exact sites as yahoo)

 6/10

 All 10

 8/10

 Since it display all 195 results, I sampled a few and all of them worked, many were also on the other search engines

17/20

How many links worked on the first page of hits? 

 All 10

 All 10

 9/10

 All 10

 8/10

 Many

All 20

How current was the info? 

 2004-present

 2004-present

 2005-present

 2004-present

 2004-present

 2004-present

2004-present

How accurate were the descriptions about the site? 

 Very good

 Very good

 good

 Very good

 Decent

 good

good

What was your overall rating (1-10) of this search engine 

 10

 9 (I didn’t like the sponsors links thrown in with the other links)

 8

 10

 I love google!

 5

 9

9 (not enough links)