Playmaker's Project in ITE 5

Design Ease of Use ContentScope Customer Service Total
Search Engines:

Yahoo! 4 3 5 4 16
Google 3 5 5 2 15
Hotbot 1 5 2 5 13


Design:
As it relates to design Yahoo! was at the forefront of this category, Yahoo had a nice colorful design with blue font and other colorful accents all over the page. The also had the great advertisements, and photos from the major news stories of the day. Google had a great logo but a very plain page. I feel that they could have done more with the space. Hotbot was just horrible with bland colors and just an overall boring and dull homepage.


Ease of Use:
Although Yahoo had a great homepage design it throws so many different links at you at once it is kind of overbearing. Though all of the links were running quickly and efficiently, things were a little cluttered. Google was straight to the point offering everything that you need in a nice and neat fashion. Hotbot did not have much but what they did offer was presented as user friendly as possible.


Content Scope:
Searching Yahoo is a goldmine, in some cases it offered up to 201,000,000 links for my search. It gave me exactly what I was looking for in most cases, and in my opinion this is the best search engine on the net. Google offers a ton of information for its searches, not as much as Yahoo, but it is more that capable of getting the job done. If Yahoo is number one Google is definitely number two. Hotbot was ok, but just did not stack up to the competition, it did give a good number of links, but with search engines like Google and Yahoo out there Hotbot is pretty much obsolete.


Customer Service:
Yahoo had great detail concerning there customer service, it provided privacy policies, Help desk, terms of service and suggestions. The only problem to me was the location which was al the way at the bottom of the page. Google had pretty ok customer service; it offered help, its privacy policy, and terms and conditions. However, these things were not provided of the homepage, and had to be searched for. Hotbot had great customer service offering everything that Yahoo had to offer but in a better location right there for you on the homepage in plain site right under the search bar.


Conclusion:
We found that Yahoo.com was the best overall search engine. Though they all have their strengths and weakness, and can probably suit the searchers needs well, Yahoo seem to go above and beyond the others to make the best user friendly environment possible.