For the search topic I chose the Essendon F.C as they are currently a figure of controversy for drugs in sport and are part of a wider investigation nationally of organised crime that is making news around the world. The three search engines that I used was Google DuckDuckGo and Instagrok.
GOOGLE:
Google was the first search engine that I used. I typed in Essendon and the above results emerged. Google knew that by typing in Essendon that I was not referring to the town but the football club and immediately it brought to the top of the page all the news articles of their surrounding controversy. It was quick and efficient but most of all the news articles only took up part of the page and there were still clear options to look at the Essendon website and wikipedia page.
INSTAGROK:
Instagrok did not display the instant results like Google. Instead when I typed in Essendon it presumed I meant the term “Fessenden” and I had to clarify the term. Once I arrived on the Essendon page I found that the engine seemed practical if you were researching something as it presented a mind map and also had a list of facts down the right hand side including those to do with the recent controversy. However the page is not easy to navigate- there are too many options as it makes the layout confusing.
DUCKDUCKGO:
Duckduckgo was my least favourite of the search engines it only displayed facts pages such as the Essendon official website, its Facebook and Wikipedia pages and quickly the results changed to Essendon itself. This engine seems like a good platform for getting an understanding of what something is but not what is currently happening to it and its relationship to other things.
Therefore my preferred search engine is Google followed by Instagrok then Duckduckgo.
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