Christie Withrow

SLM 521

 

Best of Search Engines

 

 

Below is a list of the best search engines. I have included five categories of search engines. These categories are: kid safe, shopping, news, meta, and general.

 

Kid Safe Search Engines

 

 

KidsClick

 

http://www.kidsclick.org/   

 

If you love libraries, this site will blow your mind! Real librarians organized this site by categories so that kids can move around easily from topic to topic. This is kid safe because it does not catalog websites that celebrate violence or ask for personal information such as an address.  

 

Yahoo! KIDS

 

http://kids.yahoo.com/

 

A site that gets a gold star for freshness, Yahoo for kids is very up-to-date on what kids like. It educates kids on internet safety, allows kids to make this their homepage, engages with special features, and has jokes and games, movies and a “studyzone” for homework time. This site is a parent’s best friend! 

 

 

 

Shopping Search Engines

 

Ask

 

http://www.ask.com/?o=0&l=dir

 

Also known as askjeeves.com, I like it because it looks clean and simple, yet has everything you need. There is the Ask.com Blog, AskEraser (which deletes what you already asked) and features such as news, videos and maps. Simply type in a question like “where can I buy fancy shoes,” get directions to that store, and then AskEraser will delete your results so your husband won’t catch you!

 

Pricegrabber

 

http://www.pricegrabber.com/

 

A site that provides to 26 million shoppers each month, it is an industry innovator in online comparison shopping. The site provides side by side calculations (tax and shipping included in price) and allows individuals without a website to sell their own products. Pricegrabber is the best at speed and consistency, which are what online shoppers want most!

 

News Search Engines

 

MSN

 

http://www.msn.com/

 

MSN is well respected and their site allows you to customize content. It provides a range of news, email accounts and can be located worldwide, with multi-language support. Users will be informed truthfully.

 

Yahoo

 

http://www.yahoo.com/

 

With over 500 million users, this site finds the most popular news and feature stories out there. I particularly like the “Todays Top Searches” at the bottom so that one can know what everyone else is reading. A big site has people communicating big time.

 

 

Meta Search Engines

 

Jux2

 

http://www.jux2.com/

 

This site compares Google, Yahoo, and MSN with one search, so that you don’t potentially leave out relevant results. It allows you to see much more of the web. It will give you answers in less than a second.

 

Dogpile

 

http://www.dogpile.com/

 

Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo!, Live Search, and Ask.com, as well as providing authoritative content from Kosmix and Fandango pile up to provide users with the best internet experience! Make Dogpile your homepage, read “metasearch 101”, and enjoy “favorite fetches” on this site.

 

 

General Search Engines

Google

http://www.google.com/

This is the most used site. It ranks pages by popularity (most heavily linked from other pages). It is very reliable and I like quality of images and maps as well.

Exalead

http://www.exalead.com/search/homepage

This claims to have over 8 billion searchable pages. It allows you to search phrases within quotation marks. It is aesthetic to the eye and will find exactly what you are looking for, quickly.