This essay offers a useful comparison of online search engines and library databases. The precise words used in both searches were entered into a search engine to conduct this analysis on the subject of "Privacy and security on the internet." Based on accuracy, authority, impartiality, and currency, the results were evaluated.
The sources that the library databases returned were very precise in terms of the information that was searched for. The sources from the Google search engine, on the other hand, weren't as reliable. They used sources from websites that offer antivirus software, but there is only one that can be regarded as being reasonably trustworthy: www.ntia.doc.gov. The rest were content from .com websites that included magazines and Wikipedia.
Authority,
The hits from Ebscohost are all written by professionals and scholars. If written by other authors, the articles have been reviewed and approved fit for professional and academic use. Most of the articles have information about the authors. Hits from library databases have description of the authors, including their professionalism and education levels. Consequently, authorship in hits from Google search engine did not state the capacity of the authors. This reduces credibility and authority of the sources.
objectivity
The internet search returned hits that were not objective. The Google search engine results displayed hits that were mainly sponsored or opinionated. For example, websites like Kaspersky.com offer some useful information about privacy and security on the internet but their content is tuned for marketing. On the other hand, the hits returned from Ebscohost are objective and solely for the purpose of information.
IN terms of currency, both the search engine results and the library database sources returned hits that had been published within the past five years apart from the article from Kerspasky.com.
