Sunday, June 7, 2015

Project #15 Search Engines

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Wolfram Alpha: This website is a great computational knowledge engine that lets you input a very wide variety of questions such as mathematical, scientific, music, history, and lets you search dates and times for events in the past. It is primarily used for mathematics and was once a website that only provided solutions for math problems, but it's grown into other subjects. Personally, I've used this website several times and have enjoyed it.

Bing: This web search engine is owned by the Microsoft corporation. It operates a lot like Google and searches for keywords in websites around the globe. It is the second most popular web search engine in the world.

DuckDuckGo: It is a search engine that does not track your activity as you search. It provides privacy and does not report back your results or your location to other websites.

Dogpile: This is a web search engine that has been around for quite awhile. It was released in 1995 and I remember using it when I was younger. It searches through websites for what you need and provides it all in one location. Hence, the website's name.

Yahoo! Search: This website is also a web search engine where you can browse through images, videos, and music in one place. It provides web search results and is the third most popular search engine in the world.

Ask: Ask was originally called AskJeeves and it was very popular before Google and Bing were released. It is a question-answering engine that provides answers/results when you type in a keyword in the search bar. I used it quite a lot when I was younger, because the internet was becoming more popular and AskJeeves was one of the first search engines. We thought it was all really cool how you could ask a website a question and it would immediately know the answer.

AOL Search: This website is a web search engine that has been active since the early 1990's. It also provides website results based on keyword searches

Kayak: This search engine helps you find flights across the world instantly and helps you plan vacations. I have used Kayak on many occasions and it is a reliable way to purchase airplane tickets.

1 comment:

  1. part of your assignments was to provide an evaluation of the search engines you reviewed. I did not find an evaluation of several of your sites. You provided a description, but no evaluation except, in a few cases, i like it.

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