Friday, April 20, 2007

Search Engines

I discovered some new search engines and they are pretty cool. There are four that I want to tell you about.

Search Mash is run by Google and uses the same engine but the format is different. I looked for Illinois birds. I got the same results that I got in Google but there were links to images, blogs, wikis and videos on the same page. The related videos were from YouTube. One was a pheasant chasing a boy around a zoo. Not relevent but cute. This is a good way to search for information because there is so much available on the first try.
SearchMash

MsDewey is really unusual. This search engine is run by Microsoft. It features an attractive young woman who ask you to pose a question. She waits. She pouts. She writes on a tablet. The results are good and come up within her window. This is really unusual as far as search engines go.
MsDewey

All the Web is run by Yahoo. It can show you results as you type. It was fast.
AlltheWeb

AskX is a recent version of Ask which was formerly Ask Jeeves. Results are in the center of the page. On the left there are suggestions to narrow or broaden your search.
AskX

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