Using and Searching The Internet - I will be searching for help with my Business Studies work by finding information about the stock exchange.

Google UK and Bing UK.

Why did you choose these search engines?:

I chose these 2 search engines since they are the most known search engines, and the ones that I use most. Therefore, I found it appropriate to use them since I know my way around them the most.

Searches and refining searches:

First search: ‘Stock Exchange’                Websites found: About 30,000,000

Second search: ‘London Stock Exchange’        Websites found: About 25,300,000

Third search:

‘London Stock Exchange FTSE 100                Websites found: About 736,000

Fourth search:

’Are Microsoft on the London Stock Market FTSE 100 in November 2010 "London Stock Exchange" -NASDAQ -Apple’                Websites found: About 1,640

Which search provided the most useful information?:

Bing provided the most websites, but this may mean that Google provided the most accurate results. Nevertheless, they both gave the same top results.

Website addresses of the three sites visited:

Website 1 address (URL) –

Website 2 address (URL) –

Website 3 address (URL) -

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Evaluation of Web sites:

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In my opinion, the best search engine out of these 2 is Google, due to the more accurate results, and the ones I would prefer to visit.

It is also easier to use than Bing, since more people are familiar with Google. Bing is a good contender and it is a good idea that the background changes every day, but the engine gave more vague results than Google when I searched the exact same thing.

On these websites, I found the appropriate information about Microsoft's recent perforamce on the LSE. Yahoo! Finance was the best site to tell me about their financial performace due to the amount of information.

Sadly, for school use, it was hard to understand. Because of this, indepedant investor was preferred for the way the information was shown.It was easier to read and in smaller segments.

The London Stock Exchange website was very helpful, but there was too much information and it was not presented in an easy to read form: it was just long paragraphs of information that did not fully relate to the search.