When I searched for "best mumbo sauce in Washington DC," I noticed that Google gave me a lot of links to restaurants and reviews, showing places where I could find the sauce. Bing showed me some pictures and maps, which helped me see where the restaurants were located. Yahoo! also had some articles about the history of mumbo sauce, which I didn’t see on the other two. Then, when I used a filter for the latest news, all three engines showed me different articles; Google seemed to focus on restaurant openings, Bing had some food blogs, and Yahoo! found local news stories. So, each search engine gave me different results based on how they work and what they think is important!
Imagine you are hired to create a new kind of search engine. Your first step is to carefully consider the effect that bias has on its results.
To do this, you will to look at three other search engines, testing them with various search terms and identifying where the results from each one are different.
1. Start by selecting three search engines that you can easily access. I chose Google, Bing and Yahoo!
2. Next create a selection of at least two search terms that challenge the engines in different ways (for example, you may use different keywords, place quotation marks around some terms, filter for dates or relevance, etc.). Also use filtering tools of your choice for at least one of the terms, using the same tool for each of the three engines. The more different these are the better, to test the different functions of each engine. Example “ best mumbo sauce in Washington DC “
In a 5th graders response, write a brief paragraph explaining how the results differed across the different search engines and search engine tools.
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