Alternatives to GoogleGoing on an Expedition for the Perfect

Search Engine

April 12, 2007

Teaching Excellence SeminarHope Marie Cook

After this session I hope… You will leave here with a magical list of

search engines that I downloaded from an article by Charles Knight

You will try at least two new search engines each week

You will actively evaluate and use some of the search engines that have been previewed

You will pass this information on to others

Why use anything else?

According to Charles S. Knight, "Search Engine Optimizer” SEO, 99.9% of searches are conducted using the following:

1, Google 2. Yahoo 3. MSN 4. Ask.com

What’s the Difference Between a Directory and a

Search Engine? Directories are compiled by people-Sites

that attempt to organize a large amount of information

Search Engines are automated

A directory is a listing of links compiled by someone as opposed to an intelligent agent.

An Example of a Directory About.comhttp://about.com/

Ask.comhttp://www.ask.com/

An Example of a Search Engine

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today

Ms. Deweyhttp://www.msdewey.com/

ChaCha http://www.chacha.com/

KartOO - A Clustering Enginehttp://www.kartoo.com/

Ujikohttp://www.ujiko.com

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today

Altavistahttp://www.altavista.com/

Jux2http://www.jux2.com

Ditto- Visual Search Engine www.ditto.com

SurfWaxhttp://www.surfwax.com

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today

Mojeekhttp://www.mojeek.com/

Exaleadhttp://www.exalead.com/search

Ms. Deweyhttp://www.msdewey.com/

ChaCha http://www.chacha.com/

ChaCha-Human Chat

KartOO - A Clustering Enginehttp://www.kartoo.com/

http://www.kartoo.com/

Ujikohttp://www.ujiko.com

Altavistahttp://www.altavista.com/

Altavista

Altavista

I entered Eastern’s URL and

asked for

Babel Fish to translat

e the site from

English to

Japanese.

Altavista

Clusty http://clusty.com

Jux2http://www.jux2.com

Ditto- Visual Search Engine www.ditto.com

SurfWaxhttp://www.surfwax.com

http://www.exalead.com/search

Mojeekhttp://www.mojeek.com/