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Assignment #1
I. Technology Current Event Article
The article I chose was about Google choosing a CEO for their self-driving car program.
Google has been testing their gum-drop shaped self-driving cars on public roads and
highways. This gum-drop shaped car has been specifically designed for Googles selfdriving car. Google has picked John Krafcik, a former CEO of Hyundai Motor America,
product development executive of Ford Motor and president of TrueCar, to head their
self-driving car program. Krafciks executive selling experience hints at Google will lean
towards selling the car themselves and not licensing their program to other car
companies. Google has not set a specific date when the self-driving cars will be put into
action. The self-driving car program will fall under the new corporate structure called
Google X.
II. Additional Web Articles
The two additional web articles on the topic I accessed via Google and Bing. The
keywords I used for both search engines were google self-driving car CEO. Both search
engines came up with a lot of information. I am more accustomed to Google, only
because it is heard more often than Bing.
Google had 82,300 results in 0.29 seconds. The newest, most relevant articles were on
top accompanied by a picture. There were numerous articles one right after the other
and then a break with related images. Then more in-depth recent articles followed by
more related images. Then toward the bottom it had listed more articles, but each article
was accompanied with an image to the left of the headline.
Bing had 2,430,000 results in total. The time it took to search the web was not stated.
There were many recent web articles, each with an accompanying image to the left of the
headline. They were spaced out evenly. But between the third and fourth result, there
was a bunch of images from Bing news that had nothing to do with my search.
Both search engines were very effective and efficient. I was quite surprised to see that
Bing actually had more results than Google. The font on Bing was bigger and was evenly
spaced out. Google was clumped together and hard to differentiate between articles.
Taking everything into account, I would have to say that Bing was the better search
engine for this project.
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