Information Literacy Basics Part 1

Table: Search String: Nintendo Switch


Similarities and Differences

Similarities:

  1. Multiple options to purchase the system through various major retailers.
  2. Information on the systems from the official site or through Wikipedia.
  3. Current news articles on regarding Nintendo Switch.
  4. Most websites were similar across search engines.

Differences: 

  1. Out of all the search engines, Bing had the most news articles in the top searches. Although, all three search engines had sections dedicated to only news.
  2. Google was the only search engine to show Twitter posts tagged with #NintendoSwitch.
  3.  The meta-search engine Dog pile had an add on as a the number one result that was not listed in any other search engine.
  4. The meta-search engines didn’t have specific sections for news.

 

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