After downloading and installing copernic, it did no take too long to get it up and working. I set up my search preferences for the web to include all 16 search engines currently included (if you want to include others you have to purchase a license), I also set the search preference to look at the first 50 results for each search engine. The search engines included can be seen in the image below;
I then did a search for advanced Internet users and selected the option to look for the exact phrase, which is similar to putting quotes around your search phrase. The results where as follows.
The first hit was
Still the same as the google search carried out in a previous post.
Advanced Internet Users Tutorial - CIESE
http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/
The number of hits was
The biggest difference was in the number of results compared with the google search , it was 218. Guess I am restricting the search to only 50 per search engines, so given the 16 search engines a possible 800 results was trimmed to 218 as a result of duplicate results from the different sites.
The biggest benefit seems to be saving the time you would normally spend trawling through the different search engines just to find those three or four sites that only appear on certain engines. The Copernic tool also appears to have a lot of other useful utilities for web research, but I could not fully evaluate these as you need to buy a license to take advantage of these features.
The top 5 results where;
http://www.k12science.org/tutorials/advanced/
http://www3.uwm.edu/sce/course.cfm?id=6835
http://www.rockymtnweb.com/free/advanced/index.htm
http://www.cln.org/guidebooks.html
http://www.msen.com/1997/adv_links.html
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