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Charlotte Dawson

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 This is my first search, not advanced this shows me searching for EMA, the first thing I can see is the amount of websites is much more than I would have thought, as EMA is only one company and only for one thing (to pay 16-19 year olds for been in education) I would have excepted less than 19,000,000 searches but what I can see is it is not on ‘pages only in uk’ this then reduces my search by nearly 15 million.

Just EMA + East Riding came up with a lot more, than I except, as East Riding is not that big of a region. And it shocked me that the search came up with  30,400 searches so that is still to many I need to narrow my search more!

I then decided to narrow my search and search for EMA in East Yorkshire not in hull. So my search looked like this and I found that my search went down from 1,540,000  to 30,400 then searching for  not Hull I narrowed my search down to 6,000,  and that was searching the web, not ‘pages from the UK’ this came up with a much smaller amount of only 678!

Now I will see how accurate my websites were that I found. I can now see that even on the information about the site I can read ‘Ema is a weekly £30, for eligible students in full time education’  this is telling me all I really need to know and I know it’s the right information because its specifically for my local area.

I no assumed that by typing information about EMA + East Riding – Hull I would find less websites but more detail, but surprisingly I found over 1,000 sites, and the site did have information on EMA but not as accurate as my last search. I conclude that sometimes you don’t need to specify that much and if you find a perfect site then the search is over because you may end up loosing that website as I have proven.

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I will use two search engines to do my advanced search, Yahoo and Google. They are both well-known and popular search engines. An advanced search is a very good way of specifying exactly what you are looking for and will dramatically reduces the size of your found search websites, and the sites you have found should be of more relevance. We use searches all the time to help us in our everyday lives, and  

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