Topic: The impact of budget airlines on the Asian tourism industry

Search Engine (Yahoo)
Keywords Used: impact, "low cost airlines", Asia
URL: http://www.the-infoshop.com/study/mks31349--low-cost-airlines.html
Purpose – Information
- provides factual information on the report
- through giving a brief description that includes research highlights, methodology and the benefit for investing this report

Comments (shown in figure 1):

1. 25400 hits
2. Took 0.03 seconds to search.
3. Contain features like cached, save and “more from this site”
4. Link for Acrobat files to be view as an html.
5. 1st result found relevant, 6/10 relevant topics found in the first page

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Meta Search Engine (Draze)
Keywords used: "Asian tourism", impact, "budget airlines"
URL: http://www.smh.com.au/news/Business/Destination-Asia/2005/01/28/1106850108680.html
Purpose - News
- found on The Sydney Morning Herald that provides online news in Australia – Sydney
- provides us the news about Asia being the destination due to low-cost airlines.

Comments (shown in figure 2):

1. 104 hits
2. Contain features like “peek a boo”
3. A link to open in a new window
4. States where the source is from (which search engines)
5. 1st result found relevant, 4/10 relevant topics found in the first page

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Subject directory (Google)
Keywords Used: Travel Asia budget carriers
URL: http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/03/24/bt.bud...
Purpose: News
- found in cnn.com (cable news network) - an online news website.- provides us with the latest information on how the budget carriers influence tourism industry

Comments (shown in figure 3):

1. 197 hits
2. Contain features like cached, similar pages
3. Took 0.06 seconds to search.
4. Show the category of the links
5. 2/10 relevant topics found in the first page
6. Sponsored links are found on the side

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Conclusion of meeting my searching needs:- Search engine.
Why??
- the results given are more relevant (6/10 relevant on the first page) than the other search facilities.
- has broader range of results that cause its limitation, it is also important to be accurate (convenient and save time)
- the fastest time I can get more relevant would help me best in meeting my searching needs

My final Comments:

- usually found from the news websites or seldom as information.
- news website - tends to give accurate information on the topic

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