Thursday, May 14, 2009

"Internet search engines" poll


Do you use multiple Internet search engines? Something other than Google.

Yes...2
No...1

I suppose that Google is the most popular and offers a customized home page with personal goodies and visual themes. Google also offers an image search and maps. [So do other search engines.] I just don't like to put all my searching tools in one basket. Who knows, I have heard tales of Google's searching bias. Nevertheless, there are other general search engines and highly focused search engines.

General:

altavista

Ask

cuil

dogpile

WebCrawler

Yahoo

Specialized:

europeana

Google Books

Google Scholar

picsearch

science.gov

scirus

WorldWideScience


And also available is a browser plugin that probes deeper into web searches...

Surf Canyon browser plugin--tested


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