Vicky White        Candidate no:        Centre No: 31135

Task A – Search Engines ………………………………………………………….. 3

Task B – Report on the Impact of the Availability

Of Electronic Information on Individuals and Society …………………………… 11

Task C – Information from Large Websites ……………………………………… 14

Task D – Use of Databases to Find Information …………………………………. 16

Task E – Use of spreadsheets to analyse and report ………………………….........17

Task F – Power Point Presentation ……………………………………………….. 22

Task G – Evaluation …………………………………………………………….... 28

Task A –Search Engines

Has Increased TV Coverage Affected the Attendance of Live Sports Games?

I will be researching how the increased television coverage of sports has affected the attendance of live games. To help me find information and statistics relating to this topic I will be using the following search engines; Google at , Ask Jeeves at , and Web Crawler at .

First I will do a simple search across my chosen search engines using the same key words. I will then compare these searches to find which engine gives me the most hits and which of those hits are the most relevant.

Google:

Ask Jeeves:

Web Crawler:

This shows that Google produced the greatest number of results. However, all the searches have too many results so I will refine my search. The best way of doing this is to do an advanced search.

In the with all the words box I typed the phrase “football attendance statistics”. I also set it to only bring up pages within a year, and set the language to English.

Google:

Results:

Ask Jeeves:

Results:

Web Crawler:

This search engine did not have an advanced search option

This shows that Google came up with the most results, however I found that Ask Jeeves came up with the most useful sites. Overall Ask.com was the best.

I am now going to try to search the same sentence but with some logical operators.

Join now!

The first logical operator I will use is “and.”

Google:

Results:

Ask Jeeves:

Results:

Web Crawler:

Results:

Task B - Report on the Impact of the Availability of Electronic Information on Individuals ...

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