Comparative Analysis of Search Engines

Almost all the people use the Web Search Engines for their everyday activities; especially the academicians and researchers use the Search Engines for their teaching, day to day activities, and research needs. Here, an attempt has been made to rank 5 Search Engines, i.e., Google, AltaVista, Yahoo, MSN and Rediff, based on quantum of records retrieved from the Web for the period from January to December 2011. For this purpose, one book title belonging to engineering field has been used with various combinations of fields, such as, author/s, title, publisher, etc.