Erin Haines

SLM-521

February19, 2005

The Best Search Engines

(Listed below are five categories of the best search engines and the reasons why)

Best shopping search engines

Zazubear- This search engine is very easy to follow. It allows one to search suggested shopping categories or shopping categories of one’s choice. The site is clear and concise and easy to navigate

http://zazubear.com/?

BizRate- This search engine is very informative. It has so much information. Not only does it allow you to shop, it also gives you price comparisons for different stores. Other useful information includes price ranges, detailed product information and reviews on many products! It is so detailed but very organized.

http://www.bizrate.com/

Best General Search Engines

Google- This is helpful because it has such a large amount of web pages. You can use this engine to search just about anything. This search engine is one of the best because it is so user-friendly. The search page is clean and simple and less intimidating than most other search engine home pages. There are very few advertisements on the page.

http://www.google.com/

Yahoo- This search engine is useful for finding information on current events. The quality of information is superb. The search results on this engine are thorough and very detailed. Certain topics are covered in great depth.

http://www.yahoo.com/

Best Travel Search Engines

Accommodation search engine- This search engine is the best for finding hotel accommodations worldwide. It lists the hotels in several categories. It lists them by area, chain name, and more. It is easy to find the accommodations you are for because there are so many ways to do it. You can also check out availability.

http://ase.net/index.html

Perfect Vacations- This search engine is very helpful in locating vacation rentals. It allows you to search by the type of accommodations you would use. This is a unique feature. This is also a great search engine because you are able to contact the property owners directly to book your vacation.

http://www.perfect-vacations.com/

Best Medical Search Engines

Entrez PubMed- This is very detailed search engine. It provides journal articles on many health topics. It is a very useful search engine because it provides information on rare medical diseases. It also provides statistics and samples for almost every medical condition.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?CMD=search&DB=PubMed

Healthfinder- This engine doesn’t have a lot of very specific information. However, it is easy for young people to follow. There are definitions, answers to general health questions. This search engine gives health information without all of the unnecessary statistics for young children.

http://www.healthfinder.gov/

Best News Search Engines

Google News- This search engine is one of the best news information sources. There is an enormous amount of information on this homepage. The news is listed in categories. There are so many headlines that elaborate on current events. There are also many images that are included in all of the news headlines and information. This is a very user-friendly search engine.

http://news.google.com/

Topix.net- This search engine has so many listed topics to choose from pertaining to current news. It is easy to find a news topic and get current article about that news topic. This engine is great for researching general topics instead of particular events.

http://www.topix.net/business/search-engines