Charles Fleurie

SLM521

Summer 2005

 

The Best of the Search Engines on the net

I looked at about twenty-five search engines and tried to determine which ones I like the most. I looked at the response time and the number of items listed or "hits" I got from a search query.

Kids searching tools:

I liked the site Yahooligans. (http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/ ) It is a search site geared for kids. The searching is appropriately restricted. The other site I liked almost as much was Ask Jeeves (http://www.ajkids.com/). IT has many options for kids to choose from and has a neat feature of drop down boxes when you get your search result on other related topics.

General Search:

The best site here that I liked is Google. (http://www.ajkids.com/) It is has fast replies and lots of hits from my searches. I even liked it so much; I changed my main web page from Yahoo to Google! Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com/) was my second favorite page. Not quite as fast as Google or as many relevant hits for me. But a very excellent web page!

Best Shopping Search:

The best site here is froogle. (http://froogle.google.com/) Yet another spin off from Google! They seem to do lots of things right. They have many things to view and provide price comparisons also. My second choice here is Amazon. (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/subst/home/home.html/104-4552595-3143921) I really like the site, not sure why really. Maybe because I have used it for many years and lots of things online from them from books to baby formula!

  

Meta Search:

I really liked both of my choices here. I can not really pick a winner. They both performed well, give me searching tips and are super user friendly. So I say that Metacrawler (http://www.metacrawler.com/) and dogpile (http://www.dogpile.com/) are my two favorites in this category.

Government:

Firstgov (

http://www.firstgov.gov/index.shtml) is well-linked and easy to use. And of course I really liked CNN. (http://www.cnn.com/) It has a great update section and you can trust them for true information. (As much as you can trust any news-reporting source!)

 

Here is a list of other search engines I looked at as well:

 

AltaVista (http://www.altavista.com/)

Hotbot (www.hotbot.com/)

Ask Jeeves (http://www.ask.com/)

Visimo (http://vivisimo.com/)

WebCrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com/)

All the web (http://www.alltheweb.com/)

Wisenut (http://www.wisenut.com/)

Lycos (http://www.lycos.com/)

Monster crawler (http://monstercrawler.com/)

Total News (http://www.totalnews.com/)

IXQuick (http://www.ixquick.com/)

AOL (http://search.aol.com/aolcom/index.jsp)

MSN (http://www.msn.com/)

surfwax (http://www.surfwax.com/)