Search:
	Yahoo	AltaVista	Gigablast	Google	Ask	Devilfinder	webcrawler
How long did it take?	.93	?	?	.26	?	?	?
How many hits?	1240	1240	332	12300	910	199	13
How many hits on page one had relevant information?	8	10	7	8	6	8	6
How many links worked on the first page of hits?	8	10	10	8	10	10	10
How current was the info?	5	9	8	6	9	9	1
How accurate were the descriptions about the site?	9	9	6	8	8	9	8
What was your overall rating (1-10) of this search engine	7	8	7	8	7	8	6

 Reflections.

Just a few sites like Yahoo and Google showed the searching time.

There is a great variability in the number of retrieved hits. For example, Webcrawler retrieved 13 while Google retrieved 12,300.

The range of hits with relevant information is  between 6-10. Four out of seven sites retrieved at least eight hits with relevant information.

In general, the hits are available as well as the description of the hits is accurate.

In order to determine how current was the information retrieved, I considered current whatever information published after year 2000. Four out of seven sites showed at least eight hits with current information. It has to be addressed that Webcrawler retrieved just one hit published after year 2000.

There is a group of about six hits which are retrieved in different amount and combination across the sites.

I didn’t try advanced search to have the same conditions for all sites.

I would like to address that some sites retrieves duplicated hits. Also, just Webcrawler was the only site that retrieved information in Spanish.

According to the Table results and my subjective opinion, I would probably mostly use Altavista and Google.