Project #15 Search Engines

Eight Different Search Engines-What does each do specifically?

1) Wolfram Alpha

• Wolfram Alpha is a "computational knowledge engine". 
• This search engine is useful for comparison's, mathematical problem solving, locating where you are or locating a specific place, and can also generate unique passwords for you. 
• Is said to be the most useful site on the internet. 

2) Bing

• Bing was created and released by Microsoft. It is the second most popular search engine. Before Bing it was named Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search. 
• You can search keywords or phrases and it will direct you to articles containing those key words.

3) Dog Pile

• Dog Pile is known as a meta search engine which means that it gets its results from multiple search engines and combines them to give you the best information. 

4) DuckDuckGo

• DuckDuckGo searches social media bio's without you having to leave the search engine. 
• It can also check and see if certain websites are down or not.

5) Yahoo

• Yahoo is the second largest search engine on the web.  
• According to, The New York Times, "Yahoo has said to collect more data about users than its competitors".

6) AOL

• AOL is mostly used for AOL instant messaging.
• People also use AOL for email purposes.

7) Lycos

• Its initial focus was broadband entertainment content. 
• Most popular in the 90's.
• One of the earliest crawler-based search engines

8) HotBot  

• Considered to be a meta-like search engine, which means it searched its results from four different search engines and compiled them into one.
• HotBot's wild colors, great results and impressive features drew everyone in.