Monday, January 16, 2012

7 Great Search Engines For Beginners


Internet beginners want a single search engine that delivers relevant results, has uncluttered interface and helpful options  to broaden or tighten a search.With this criteria,PCMmagzine.com comes up with  a list of favourites,apart from the usual Google,Yahoo! and Bing:  

  1. Ask.com: The Ask or AJ or Ask Jeeves search engine is much trusted.The super-clean interface rivals the other major search engines,and the search options are as good as the others.The result groupings are what really make Ask.com stand out.
  2. DuckDuckGo.com: At first,DuckDuckGo looks like Google.But there are many subtleties that make this spartan search engine different .It has some slik features,like 'Zero-click' information (all your answers are found on the first results page).It also helps to clarify what question you are really asking and the ad spam is lesser than Google.
  3. Archive.org: The  Internet Archive is a favourite destination for long time web lovers.It has been taking snapshots of the entire World Wide Web for years now,allowing visitors  to travel back in time to see what to web page looked like in 1999,or what the news was like around Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
  4. Yippy.com: Yippy is a deep web engine that searches other search engine for you.Unlike the regular web,deep web  page are usually harder to locate by conventional search.That is where searching for obscure hobby interest blogs,government information,tough-to-find news, academic research and otherwise vague content,Yippy is your tool.
  5. Mahalo.com: Mahalo is the one 'human-powered'search site in this list,employing a committee of  editors to manually sift and vet thousand of pieces of content.This means that you will get  fewer Mahalo hit results than you get at Bing or Google.But it also mean that most Mahalo results have a higer quality of content and relevance,as best as human editors can judge.Mahalo also offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions.Depending on which of the two search boxes you use,you will either get direct content topic hits or suggested answers.
  6. Dogpile.com:Years ago,Degpile was the fast and efficient choice.Things changed,Dogpile faded into obscurity,and Google become king.But today,Dogpile is coming back,with a growing index and a clean and quick presentation.
  7. Webopedia.com:This is an encyclopaedic resource dedicated to searching techno terminology and computer definitions.Teach yourself what 'domain name system'is or teach yourself what 'DDRAM'  means on your computer.Webopedia is a perfect resource for non-technical people to make more sense of the computers around them...... 


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