At the Lundquist homestead, among a myriad of other hobbies, we collect plants. Right now I am looking for rhododendrons and azaleas with northwest names for a new garden.
I chose a simple search, I typed in “rhododendrons”. On Google and Yahoo, I found three sites selling rhody’s and a long list of pages with rhododendron culture, photos, and a slew of university web pages on the same.
Task #15 was the perfect chance to see if I could do better with one of the metasearch engines.
While Rollyo and Dogpile both elicited more relevant pages than Google and Yahoo, Mamma was the hands down winner in my search.
I got eight Sponsored links of nurseries, and another half-dozen more nurseries along with pages that either had pictures of rhody’s or detailed their culture. This was on my first “roll”.
I made another attempt with the same terms on all three and, surprisingly, on my second try, Dogpile had a larger list than before, Mamma seemed about the same, and Rollyo got worse, although I can’t figure out why that would happen. I have tagged Mamma to refer to in future on Del.icio.us, and I will keep testing both Dogpile and Rollyo on other searches to see what pops up.
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