Module 4 - Searching the Web

For this task, I did a search with the term "Yang Tai Chi Chuan"

From Google.com received "about 293,000 hits"

The top five results were:

1. http://www.yangfamilytaichi.com/
2. http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Philosophy/Taichi/
3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yang_style_Tai_Chi_Chuan
4. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chen_style_Tai_Chi_Chuan
5. http://www.egreenway.com/taichichuan/short.htm

I then searched for the same term in Copernic Desktop Search and received 45 hits

The top five results were:

1. Tai Chi For Every Body
2. Easy Tai Chi DVD/Videos
3. Classical Tai Chi
4. Yang style tai chi chuan - Wikipedia, th...
5. Yang Family Tai Chi Chuan - Tai Chi Vide...

An interesting difference that I noticed between the searches was that Copernic seemed to have a lot more advertising returned in the results than google did. For example, with Copernic the first three results were advertising responses, as opposed to just finding websites out on the web. I find this very annoying, as if I am searching for a commercial enterprise, then I will specifically be looking for this. If I just want information, I do not want information coming from commercial enterprises, whose main aim is, of course, to sell me something.

In addition to this, the much shorter list of hits from Copernic is of concern. Forty-five hits as compared to nearly three hundred thousand is really strange, and I am not sure how they found only such a small number of results. Perhaps the other 299,000 websites that were returned on Google refused to pay Copernic to have their results displayed!