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Best
Search Engine honors may go to several top search engines
depending upon the criteria used to judge who may indeed
be best. With 80-percent of the Internet devoted to Google,
one may say that this SE ranks at the top of the best search
engine category. Though not quite as popular, DMOZ.org and
Yahoo! (search directories) also offer excellent search
results for the general public.
One
up and coming SE that strives to one day be known as the
best search engine is Teoma, which ranks by subject-expert
popularity. Some other contenders include: AltaVista, MSN,
LookSmart, HotBot, Lycos, AllTheWeb, Overture and WiseNut.
Perhaps
the best search engine sometimes is a meta
search engine which will in effect do simultaneous
searches of several SE's at once. If you would like to get
the top results from multiple SE"s then try Dogpile,
MetaCrawler, Ask Jeeves, Infind, Metafind, Metasearch, Mamma,
Ixquick, Kartoo or Surfwax.
But
say you want an SE that is more specific. Perhaps your definition
of best search engine is one that focuses on kids. In this
case you can check out KidsClick!
or Yahooligans!.
Best
Search Engine honors for someone looking for expert advice
could go to AllExperts.
If you are in need of a quote, why not check
out Quoteland and if you need
to look for some freeware or shareware, why not check out
Shareware.com.
If
the best search engine involves results from a variety of
different countries then try Search
Engine Collosus, which is a directory of such SE's.
Perhaps
your definition of best search engine is one that will deliver
the photo
search capabilites you desire. In this case you
can check out some image SE's such as Ditto,
which delivers relevant thumbnail images or GoGraph.com
which allows you to quickly locate icons, animated GIFs,
photographs, clip art and wallpapers. If you just can't
stay away from Google, then why not try out Google
Image Search? Or try Ithaki
Images which is an image meta search engine that queries
6 different image SE's simultaneously. Try also Picsearch
which is a family-friendly image SE.
The
best search engine to a news junkie just may be an SE like
DayPop,
which crawls 59,000 news sites per day looking for the latest
and greatest. If you only need a hundred different sources,
then try Ananova. If you prefer
skimming the headlines try NewsNow,
which gathers headlines from over 17,000 news sources around
the world every 5 minutes. Columbia
Newsblaster automatically collects and categorizes
the breaking news of the day.
For
those into biographies, the best search engine just may
be Biography.com
with a database of 25,000 people, past and present and a
search menu that asks for name and keyword. Infoplease Biography
though laden with pop-up ads, also has a large database
of people along with the ability to browse by category.
So,
no matter what your interests may be, most likely there
is a best search engine out there to suit your needs.
Whether you seek general info, kids info, expert advice,
quotes, shareware, images, country-specific information,
news or biographies chances are that there is an SE waiting
to help you with the results you're looking to receive.
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