Searching The Web

I used www.yahoo.com to search for child development information. I normally use Goggle.com to search the Internet but I decided to use yahoo.com for the purpose of comparing how Yahoo is different from www.Goggle.com as a search engine. I typed the words child development information into the search box and received 548,000,000 hits! However, many of the hits were commercial sites that did not appear to be reliable sources, but I did receive many non-commercial hits as well.

The very first hit listed was http://www.childdevelopmentinfo.com/ but the site did not appear to offer information that I could be positive was credible. The first non-commercial hit listed was www.pbs.org/parents/childdevelopment. All but two hits on the search results page appeared to include relevant information on the topic I had searched for. The two hits that were not at all useful were http://www.parents.com/, which is a web site that sells Parent magazine and http://www.cbom.com/ which sells children's books. However, there were a few hits I received on my first search that were useful web sites for a schoolproject for my computer class. I was able to use www.pbs.org and www.zerotothree.com.

To narrow down my search and reduce my number of hits I typed 'stages of normal child development' and 'early childhood milestones' into the search box. I was able to narrow down my search results but not really reduce my number of hits. However, I did find three more useful web sites through these additional two searches. The web sites were www.AboutOurKids.org, www.wondertime.go.com, and www.kidshealth.org/parent. I was able to use all three of these sites as resources for my school project. In my opinion, searching the Internet and finding exactly what you want is way more difficult then it used to be. Consequently, if you know how to use the right key words when you search and what to look for then you should be able to find what you need.

I am a student at the University of Delaware and I am currently attending classes at the Dover Campus. I am a Cognitive Science major, a philosophy minor and plan on being a speech therapist. In my spare time I enjoy listening to and making music and spending time with my nephew. One day I hope to be given the opportunity to travel around the world.