Sunday, 14 September 2008

Task 4: Search Engines

Top 5 Google search hits for 'Wep':
Wired Equivalent Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy

What is WEP? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer
www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WEP.html

(In)Security of the WEP algorithm
www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

802.11 WEP: Concepts and Vulnerability
www.wi-fiplanet.com/tutorials/article.php/1368661

WeP Peripherals Ltd.
www.wepindia.com

Top 5 Copernic hits for 'Wep':

WEP - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WEP

What is WEP? - A Word Definition From the Webopedia Computer
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/W/WEP.html

Wired Equivalent Piracy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopaedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wired_Equivalent_Privacy

(In)Security of the WEP algorithm
http://www.isaac.cs.berkeley.edu/isaac/wep-faq.html

WEP. World Events Productions Makes TV the world remembers.
http://www.wep.com/

Both these searches gave some strange results (as usual) but neither more effective than the other. At first glance the multisearch looked promising, but if you look at wep.com, it's actually a television production website, and wepindia.com actually sells printers and consumables. Apart from that the searches came up with three common sites, and the others were information also about WEP. I don't think either search comes up with better results, they're both as flawed as the other, but Google, while limiting my searches as iTNews says, it'sjust so much simpler, faster, and more convenient to use.

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