Kid's Click and Search Engines
EDTECH Editor-Beil
Kid's Click and Search Engines
A poster to EDTECH asked why the Kids Click site was only a directory
shell with no content in the links.
KidsClick
<http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/>
EDTECH Post Regarding Kids Click
<http://tinyurl.com/og2lw>
My Original Response on EDTECH
<http://tinyurl.com/rxys7>
When I first saw this question, I did not think to check the title in a
search engine to find a new home even though I prognosticated that the
site might have moved and this turned out to be correct. Nevertheless, as
noted to me privately and perhaps on this list, Google links to the old
site as the top hit and only second to the new and working site. Look
Smart has the old site third, fifth and sixth, while the up to date site
is all the way down in the eighth slot. Lycos, Netscape, and MSN have two
or three old site hits before the up to date current site with actual
content is listed, the old site hits being above the link to the current
site in these search engines. By contrast Ask, Yahoo, DMOZ Online
Directory Project, AllTheWEb, and AltaVista have the up to date site as
the first hit. Google Directory also has the up to date Kid's Click as
the first hit. One move that would greatly help matters would be for the
content of the Berkeley site to be a link, automatic transfer or other
method of getting users to the current site with content, rather than
providing an empty shell of the site that can lead people to assume the
site has ceased to exist. On DMOZ, the only site shown is the site that
currently contains content. By the way, Teoma is now Ask.com.
Links, some outdated, to these and other search engine choices may be
found here:
Major Search Engines and Directories
By Danny Sullivan, Editor-In-Chief
April 28, 2004
<http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156221>
I am certain that more up to date lists exist, but this got me to several
search engines to do a bit of comparing on this matter. Exercises like
this would be good to provide students with an understanding that one
source, even one search engine, can give a very different picture of
the information sought than other search engines or sources. A search of
"Martin Luther King" in Google, for example and with quotation marks
included, leads to a hate group as the first hit. How many other search
engines of those a student checks lead to the same result? Such a search
question would require a student to learn how to find a search engine
directory and then use it to evaluate varying search engine search
results.
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