Here is a site that list some of the best internet search tools online.
Last updated June 22, 2013
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| Selected Internet Search Engines | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Search Engine | Scope | Tutorials | Good to Know | Owner |
| Google [3] google.com | Full text of web pages and other files on the web, images, sound files, maps and map making, machine translation; results prioritized by sites most used and shared | Google Guide googleguide.com/ Google Search Tips & Tricks Contents google.com/intl/en insidesearch/tipstricks/basics.html | Advanced searching employed through a template and allows specification of site, domain, and file type, update period filtering, language choice, and reading level, among many other useful options; offers suggestions for spelling errors | |
| Bing [4] bing.com | Web pages, especially those related to news and scientific content; lookup; videos, images, maps; events in the user’s preset geographic area, and social searching that can access the photos and pages of the searcher’s social media connections | Bing Search Tips and Techniques onlinehelp.microsoft.com/en-us bing/gg609290.aspx | Advanced searching requires Boolean operators; can be connected to social media including Facebook and Google+ to allow searching of created by those in the searcher’s social media networks | Microsoft |
| Yahoo [5] yahoo.com | Web search box integrated into page displaying all Yahoo! products; search includes web pages and some other text file types, such as PowerPoint; filters for format (images, blogs, etc,) and timeliness filter appears with search results; filtering for recently updated includes updates to ads on results page | Searching the Internet from My Yahoo! Page help.yahoo.com//tutorials /my2/mycham/my_search1.html | Mix of service and product displays on basic search page gives it a more cluttered appearance than other search engines listed here; search results feature Yahoo! Answers, which require user evaluation; Search Assist suggests auto-filling when search box activated | Yahoo! |
| Duck Duck Go [6] duckduckgo.com | Search results emphasize human generated fact nuggets and aggregated quality web sites related to the search topic; sponsored links are clearly labeled and screen design is clean, allowing more focused result appearance for children and those unaccustomed to contemporary web page design complexity; results less comprehensive than Google or Bing | DuckDuckGo 101 youtube.com watch?v=qK48Xt3HsOA | Anonymous, untracked, searching, as indicated by the secured site on which the search is entered; intended as a first stop for quick answers from online documentation, much provided by Wolfram Alpha Computing | Gabriel Weinberg |
| Ixquick [7] ixquick.com | Meta-search engine that combines results from multiple search engines simultaneously in results; deploys advanced searching through its own template or by sending search only to the engine(s) which the search the searcher’s Boolean syntax matches; searchable in 18 languages, including those written in non-Roman script; search for web pages, images, videos, phone directory listings | About Ixquick Search Engine ixquick.com/eng power-search-techniques.html | Anonymous, untracked, searching, as indicated by the secured site on which the search is entered | Ixquick (Surfboard Holding, BV) |
Links:
[1] https://infopeople.org/content/best-search-tools-chart
[2] https://infopeople.org/content/search-tools
[3] http://www.google.com/
[4] http://www.bing.com/
[5] https://www.yahoo.com/
[6] https://duckduckgo.com/
[7] https://ixquick.com/
[1] https://infopeople.org/content/best-search-tools-chart
[2] https://infopeople.org/content/search-tools
[3] http://www.google.com/
[4] http://www.bing.com/
[5] https://www.yahoo.com/
[6] https://duckduckgo.com/
[7] https://ixquick.com/
