List of Best Search Engines
Looking for the best search engines? Defining what the best search engine is can be difficult, as it is a very subjective decision.
A list of the best search engines can be found at Love to Know.com. Tech Learning.com also provides a list of the best search engines available for educators. There may also be many other lists available, a simple Internet search can reveal different websites where lists have been made.
Choosing a Search Engine
There are a number of different search engines that are considered to be the best. Google, Yahoo, MSN, Bing, Dogpile, and even Altavista have at one time been declared as the "best search engines." To determine which is the best, it is important you understand what your criteria are and how each different search engine works:
- Google, for example, seems to pull information from a wider range of websites, and seems to be able to get more information quickly than the Yahoo search engine when used with the same search terms.
- However, MSN is quickly becoming a good search engine again, although they have lost some of their true search engine appeal by offering news, email, and other ancillary features.
- Search engines like Bing, which are operated by Microsoft and are intended to be more like Google, are also considered by some to be better than Google, whether because they supply a larger range of websites more rapidly than their competitors, or because they are less inclined to place cookies and invasive advertisements on your web browser.
- Other search engines such as Altavista, use systems that crawl the web constantly updating and adding information so that their search terms always return fresh data. These are considered by others to be the best.
With so many search engines out there, and so many different opinions as to which ones are best, ultimately you will need to experiment on your own to find the one that is right for you.