Saturday, February 7, 2015

Project #15 Search Engines

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Here is my list for 8 different search engines.  I have taken time to try each of these out or explore them in some way.  I have included the links and a brief description of their uses and how they may be useful.

#1 Wolframalpha
On this site, I entered the words 'artists of the Baroque Period'.  This yielded numerous different tables with dates, areas involved, people involved, and a timeline.  You can click each time, name, etc., and it takes you to another result page with information on that topic as well.  I find this site to be very easy to maneuver and am very please with the quick results.  You are not overloaded with numerous different sites to go to and you have more of a simplistic start page.  http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=artists+of+the+baroque+period

#2 Dogpile
This page offers something that I do not see on some of the other search engines.  You have the option of a white pages tab to search.  I entered the search for Tyler Candles.  I had the same result that I get from other engines like Bing or Google.  I liked the layout most for this search engine.
http://www.dogpile.com/info.dogpl/search/web?fcoid=417&fcop=topnav&fpid=27&q=tyler+candles&ql=

#3 Bing
I searched the name Carrie Washington.  Up came several different and interesting tidbits.  This search engine is fabulous.  There was a biography with her name, place of birth and other pertinent information. There were also several different sites to click on to find magazines or other publications containing articles on the actress.
http://www.bing.com/search?q=carrie+washington&qs=HS&pq=carrie+washi&sc=8-12&sp=1&cvid=27d8684073454c2c898af9b55156283b&FORM=QBLH&ghc=1

#4 DuckDuckGo
Here I searched for essential oils.  I liked that there were not any other search engines that popped up, (that I could see).  It gave me straight forward results and easy access to find the best essential oil brands.  I think this would be a great site to use if you don't want to have to worry with going to other sites to compare.  I think that this is a fast and easy site to use.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=essential+oils&ia=about

#5 Yahoo
I find this site to be very busy!  There are different tools to find out about everything from travel and movies to dating and health.  There are gadgets with sports scores, NASDAQ, and weather.  I just find it to be a one stop shop for anything you want to look up.  However, if you are just looking for something simple, you may end up with more results that you have time to explore.
https://www.yahoo.com/

#6 ixquick
I searched for baseball.  Here I found easy access to only what I searched for and not extra sites to search that may just contain the word baseball.  This has places to go to find the history of baseball and baseball-themed math games.  I think this is a fantastic place to find something different.  It is accurate and fast.
https://ixquick.com/do/metasearch.pl

#7 Aol
I searched lacrosse here and found all the information that I needed.  The official lacrosse website, what type of shoes, and the best helmets and pads for the game.  I am more familiar with Aol from use in the past.  I have always like this search engine.  It always finds the best sites to go to for what you are looking for.  These days, it is very similar to many other search engines.  I just tend to tryst things that I am familiar with.
http://search.aol.com/aol/search?enabled_terms=&s_it=comsearch&q=lacrosse&s_chn=prt_aol20

#8 Ask Jeeves
This site is cool.  It gives you a question of the day on its home page.  It may not be something you would normally think of.  I find that interesting.  You can search anything like a normal site.  I just find that to be a neat feature.
http://www.ask.com/?o=10181&jr=true

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