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Title - www.? Question - Is the most Popular (commonly used) serach engine the fastest andmost accurate? Hypothesis - If an internet search engine is the fastest and most accurate application, then it will be the most popular search engine selected by internet users. Step by Step Prodecure (Include top ten engines with boxes next to names so subject can check which one they prefer to use) 2. What is your top search on the web. 3. Are you tech savvy? (Have backround knowledge of computers)
 * research the top ten search engines on the web, record data
 * create questionaire sheet containing the questions:
 * 1) Pick the search engine you use most when searching on the web from the following
 * Interview 9 people with this questionare
 * 1) 3 people ages 1-18
 * 2) 3 people ages 18-26
 * 3) 3 people ages 27+
 * Record all data
 * take the top three common searches of the answers to the second question, and search them in each search engine
 * Using the search calculator, record the time it takes to search your specific keywords. Do this seven times for each search, in each different search engine. Doing this will acquire the average speed.
 * Then, look at the top five results (links) that are given to the search. Compare these top five results and see how well they correspond to every word in the search. There may be different results for each engine
 * Record all data, the one with the shortest amount of search time, and corresponds the most with the search is the most useful search engine.
 * Compare the different results from the age groups, and see which age group was using the most useful search engine. See how fast and accurate their choices for the search engines are too.
 * Also compare the tech savvy people to the non-tech savvy people. Observe a difference in results.
 * Make bar graphs to compare the results for each criteria



Materials List a computer with full internet access a speed calculator a keyboard quizzes created by me that have the criteria I need answered people to interview.

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11/11/11 - I have finished the consent forms and the questionaire forms to give out to all test subjects. They are printed and ready to be given out, and then used to collect data.

11/16/11 - I spent a few days in deciding which people I should interview, from all the people I know. I have picked out 4 so far out of 10, and I hoping it will all go well when I give them the questionaire.

11/21/11 - I have printed more questionaire and consent forms in the classroom today. I have given out 4 of 9 questionaires. I tested a male adult in the category 27+, a child girl in the category 1-18, a young man in the category 1-18, and another child girl in the category 1-18. The three people in the 1-18 category have gotten signed consent forms from their parents and or guardians. My results did not appear surprising in my opinion. Ironically, they all chose Google as their choice for the search engine. This was expecting, because prior research has shown Google to be the top search engine. The topics in which they search on the internet though differed alot. There wasn't one topic that was the same, which is making think that it's going to be hard to search the top three common searches. Also, one of the topics searched was "school projects". I talked to the subject, and she meant projects for school relating to what they are learning in class, but mostly History. I have decided for this topic, I'm going to research "History". This is used as a variable since "school projects" is very vague, and not one singular topic.

Only one of them questioned what "tech savvy" meant, so I gave her my definition of it. (A person who is good with computers) Two of them had mentioned they have never heard of All The Web, and Lycos. This informs me that these two are not popular search engines. In comparrison to past research, this matches up, and proves that these two aren't commonly used search engines. 11/22/11 - I gave the interview to a girl who is 15 years old, and a woman who is 39 years old.

12/13/11 - I gave the questoinairre to two more people. A man age 24, and a woman age 18. My results are as expected. Everyone is choosing Google. It will be interesting to see if Google comes out on top at the end. If this happens, everyone will be apualled at their results. I wonder if they'll consider switching search engines? 12/22/11 - I have divided everything I am doing into parts, and decieded there is three.First, interview the human subjects. Second, compare the results with accuracy. Third, compare the results to speed. I am finished part 1 of 3, which is the biggest part of the data. I still could use two more people to test just to make sure I have enough data before I start calculation speed and accuracy. I also made sure every individual has a signed consent form.

12/23/11 - I have talk to my peers, and they have told me they know of two more people I can give the questionairre to. I will need to run more copies of the questionairre and the consent more. I'll print those today, if they printer in my teacher's room cooperates properly. Durring this vacation I'm planning on finishing up my research, comparing the results, and getting a trifold together for the actualy science fair.

12/25/11 - I gave my grandmother and my cousin the questionarre, they are my last two people survery.

1/2/12 - The new year started off good, I asked my ralatives which search engine they all prefer to use and it was a unanamous vote for Google.

1/3/12 I'm going back and changing my hopthesis. Time is relative, and all the search engines appear accuracte by my data, so my current hypothesis is not going ot sufice.

1/6/12 - I have finished my research and searched every topic in each search engine. I got the speeds it took me to do so too. It turns out that Bing is the fastest search engine. This is shocking to know because Google is regaurded as the best search engine. Proving this helped to proved my hypothesis wrong, which is what I wanted. Google runs on advertising, and most people don't realize there's other engines out there. Also, all my information is typed out and ready to be glued onto the trifold for the science fair.

1/8/12 - The research is glued and ready to be turned in.

Resources

www.Google.com www.Bing.com www.Yahoo.com www.AOL.com www.MSN.com www.Ask.com www.AllTheWeb.com www.Lycos.com www.Netscape.com [|www.AltaVista.com] [] []