| It's a race against time, how quickly can you get to a search engine? |
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What's a search engine? |
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I quickly type a search engine's address into my browser. |
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I've at least one good search engine in my favourites list. |
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I have a search engine as my home page. I only need to press a button to get there. |
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I have a search engine toolbar installed on my browser. I don't need to find a search engine, there's always one handy. |
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| Okay... but how many search engines do you use when you're searching for something? |
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Ah! I use a meta crawler! |
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I just use one search engine. If my favourite search engine can't help me then no search engine can. |
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I'll try two search engines if needs be. |
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I'm persistent! I'll search two, three or four search engines to find what I'm after. |
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It depends on how many minions I have available at the time |
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| How skilfully do you compose your searches? |
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I enter the words I'm looking for into the search box and press search. Easy! |
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I don't use words like “the” in my search because search engines ignore them. |
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I'll refine my choice of search words if needs be. |
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I know how to use words like “and” or “or” in my searches. |
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I'll use commands like “inurl:” and “site:” when I need to. |
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I'll use commands like “exact:” and “scope:” when I need to. |
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| Which is your favourite WWW era? |
| The 1980s. |
| The early 1990s. |
| The late 1990s. |
| The turn of the millenium. |
| Present day. |
| The future. |
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| What's a boolean search? |
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A search on a special scientific search engine. |
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A search for gold or anything valuable. |
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A search using logical operators. |
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A search for synonyms and antonyms. |
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There's no such thing, I think you made that up. |
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| How scary is the Internet, if you use a search engine what can they tell about you? |
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Which part of the world I'm in. |
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What sort of Internet browser I'm using. |
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Which sites I've found recently on that search engine. |
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All the web sites I have been recently. |
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Which search result I click on. |
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Whether I'm male or female. |
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Which programs are stored on my computer. |
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Evil cookies tell them everything; who I am and what I am thinking. |
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| If a search engine is not cooperating and is giving you useless results or dead links, what do you do? |
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Smash the computer to bits. Stupid internet. |
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Try a different search engine |
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Get someone in your technical department to have a look for you |
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Try again later. |
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Modify your search slightly and try a different angle. |
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| Let's say you are tempted to buy a set of wind up plastic teeth from the Internet and search for some. Which would you prefer? |
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A search engine which finds lots of online shops where I could buy a suitable set of gnashing plastic teeth. |
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A search engine which finds lots of reviews on the latest choice of comedy teeth. |
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A search engine which finds technical details and specifications of wind up teeth. |
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A search engine which produces an easy to read price comparison of comedy teeth. |
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A search engine that talks me out of wasting my money on wind up plastic teeth. |
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| Which is your favourite colour? |
| Black |
| Blue |
| Brown |
| Green |
| Grey |
| Orange |
| Pink |
| Purple |
| Red |
| White |
| Yellow |
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| Which type of search engine is likely to produce better results? |
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One where the process of discovering web sites is entirely automated and there is no human interaction. |
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One where the process of discovering web sites has some automation and some human quality control. |
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One where process of discovering web sites is entirely done by trained editors and reviewers. |
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Telepathic magic search engines. |
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| What do you mainly use search engines for? |
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Research, investigation or homework |
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To find out about the latest movies, music news, and other social stuff |
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Finding popular downloads, programs or MP3s |
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Finding online bargains – which I tend to buy online |
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Finding information about products – which I'll then find and buy offline |
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World domination. |
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| Which search engines have you heard of? |
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AltaVista |
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DMOZ |
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Google |
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HotBot |
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Ask Jeeves |
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Kelkoo |
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Lycos |
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Yahoo |
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A9 |
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Mamma |
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MSN |
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Wisenut |
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