MODULE 4 - Searching the web

Unfortunately, I cannot find "Copernic" or "Sherlock" for my Mac OSX, but i came across a program called DEVONagent. This program searches through various amount of search engines and finds the most appropriate one for your topic. The search does not separate the search engine results, but instead filters and collects the most appropriate websites and analyzes each site and lists them for you with the information and not just the links.
I like the fact that you can read the most important information before you even open up the link, this would save you a lot of time as you don't have to sort through which site is relevant, this has been done automatically.
You can also set the result on automation and once you have archived your first search, it will keep updating the with new results in your archive. I believe this would be very handy and good for my future searches.


As I can't really compare with the correct program (copernic or sherlock) it's hard to see the difference. But the search result was not the same only a couple were the same. But I would have to say that I prefer to use DEVONagent in the future as the results are easier to identify and it would be a time saver. I like the fact that I can read about the site before even opening up the site. I also like the fact that it high lights your searched word in all the site, this allows you to read the appropriate sections. Another highlight of this program is the result can also be viewed in topics. As I searched for Antivirus Software, DEVONagent catagorises the topic. eg. software, protection, security. This is just an added bonus!



Top 5 Google search

Search Engine - Google
Search word - Antivirus Software
First hit - http://www.avast.com/
Amount of hits - 37,800,000



Top 5 DEVONagent search

Program - DEVONagent
Search word - Antivirus Software
First hit - http://www.youtube.com/results?num=40&q=antivirus+software&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&hl=en&tab=w1#_jmp0_
Amounts of hits - 39( i'm not sure if this is correct, but it says that there are 39 documents, but i think it has been extracted from 69 pages)