Project 15: Search Engines

It was very interesting to see all the different and useful search engines besides Google. I am a Google user all day everyday but it also intrigued me to start using other search engines because they also offer different and successful ways to search the Internet. Some of these search engines include:

1. WolframAlpha.com is a different search engine from all the rest. According to reliable soft net they market this search engine as a computational knowledge engine. This search engine gives you pages and pages of facts and numerical data for many topics. It does calculations as well! It is relatively easy to use once you pull up the page, just type in what your looking for or wanting to calculate and it brings up many useful pages regarding the topic. I think this site can be a really useful tool once a person learns more about it. 
2. Bing.com is another form of Google that Microsoft has created. Bing is a very useful and easy to use tool. The home page is set up along the lines of Google but also different in its own ways. When the page pops up for Bing, all you have to do is type what you are looking for and it will show you numerous useful pages on the topic. I personally love using Bing, especially on  my mobile device because it has a voice operation that allows a person to voice search what they are looking for. 
3. Yahoo.com is a program inspired by the search engine Bing. It is mostly popular because of its email provider but in 2011 Bing launched the new Yahoo Search. This search engine is also inspired by Google and Bing but it makes it easier on people who have email accounts with them because they can launch a search right from their email. Even if you are not a Yahoo user, a person should definitely check this engine out! 
4. Ask.com was formerly known as Ask Jeeves, but changed to Ask.com for easier use. Ask is a question and answer based search engine. Most of the things people are searching for are answered by other people or polls done on the subject. The engine also has a general search option but from experience the results that it produces have not been very useful. This site is very user friendly. 
5. ChaCha.com is a search engine similar to Ask.com. Where users can ask or answer questions once a search on that topic has been preformed. The answers produced from searches on this site are very precise and to the point. They have a really cool feature that allows you to take quizzes that helps you decide on a number of topics to choose from, 
6. Blekko.com is a search engine developed by the people who are against using Google. They have a promise that their search engine is spam free. This engine is better suited for webmasters and people who need data more than people of normal use. I found this search engine to be easy to use but hard to navigate around once a search was performed.
7. AOL.com is an older search engine but works just as good as Google or Bing in my opinion. It was very easy to use and provided a lot of useful answers to things that coordinated to what I was searching for. 
8. DuckDuckGo.com I found this search to be my favorite. Not only does it have a very cool name it also has a lot of advantages over the other engines. It's interface is very clean and doesn't track its users. It has very nice features including only one page of the best results that they site could find on the subject being searched. It is very user friendly and unique.