Name _________________________________________

1) Of the major search engines, which have made any money (in terms of income, not investment)? Which has made the most money? Provide a url from Search Engine Watch or Internet World (www.iw.com) so I can go to where you got your answer.

2) Just as AOL uses someone else’s Web browser (Microsoft’s Explorer), so it uses someone else’s search engine. Which one?

3) What’s the difference between Yahoo and a search engine? Which search engine does Yahoo use?

4) Are the following search engines case sensitive? That is, will sadd return the same results as SADD?

	Yes	No
AltaVista
Excite
Infoseek

and find an article about search engines dated within the last month or so. Summarize the article in fifty words or fewer and email me a citation in this format