Website Evaluation

Search Topic: Explorers
Type of Search: Keyword
Search Engine: Excite

Attempt	Search terms and operators used	# of hits	Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be
1.	Explorers	27,690	Very broad
2.	Explorers-Lewis & Clark	17, 095	Still too broad
3.	Lewis & Clark Exploring the Oregon Trail	3,025	Getting Smaller, but still pretty broad
4.	Sacagawea	430	Still too broad
5.	Sacagewea	70	We thought this was an excellent search.

Evaluation: Sacajawea, Indian Woman, Fort Mandan

http://www.linecamp.com/museums/americanwest/western_names/sacajawea/sacajawea.html

Navigation & Usability

This site has many hyperlinks, which allows you to jump to different areas. It also has a site map which is very useful to show all the areas of the website.

Authorship

We could not find the author of this article. We did find an email address to contact them at.

Content Validity

We thought that this site was very useful and fact based. The only problem we found with this site was that there was no author; otherwise it was very user friendly.

Search Topic: Explorers
Type of Search: Keyword
Search Engine: Yahoo

Attempt	Search terms and operators used	# of hits	Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be
1.	Explorers	652	Too Broad
2.	Explorers-Lewis & Clark	601	Still too broad
3.	Lewis & Clark Exploring the Oregon Trail	1	Very good
4.	Sacagawea	5	Very good
5.	Sacagewea	208	Broad

Evaluation- Exploring the West from Monticello

http://www.lib.virginia.edu/exhibits/lewis_clark/home.html

Navigation & Usability

This site has an index to show what all they have and you are able to go to any page from the index. Each page also has hyperlinks so that you can jump from one page to another.

Authorship

It had a separate page for credits. You could go here and get links from all of the contributors, including who designed the page.

Content Validity

This was a very factual site with many hyperlinks. It is also user friendly; the only thing I might change would be the amount of information given because it is easy to get lost.

Search Topic: Explorers
Type of Search: Keyword
Search Engine: Dogpile

Attempt	Search terms and operators used	# of hits	Quality of Hits The majority of hits in this search appear to be
1.	Explorers	5000	Too Broad
2.	Explorers-Lewis & Clark	6	Not Good-Nothing to do with topic
3.	Lewis & Clark Exploring the Oregon Trail	15	Still nothing to do with the topic
4.	Sacagawea	283	Pretty broad
5.	Sacagewea	5	All are focused on the money.

Evaluation-Tewksbury Stamp & Coin

http://www.tewksburystampandcoin.com/

Navigation & Usability

This site has a lot of hyperlinks and a site map to make it easy to find things.

Authorship

This site gives an email address and a home address. It also tells who created the web page.

Content Validity

This site really had nothing to do with what we were looking for. It talked about coins and stamps rather than her expedition with Lewis & Clark.

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