Comparing Google with Other Search Engines in VS .NET

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In my opinion, Google is the best search engine on the Web because it has the most efficient searching mechanism and the biggest reservoir of indexed Web pages Right now, it is certainly the most popular Web search engine But of course many other search engines are available, each of which may offer access to some kinds of information more easily than Google

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Keep on top of Web searching technology There were hot Web search engines before Google, and Google may not be the last word in search technology Some search engines came before Google, and were already mature when Google was first unleashed only a few years Others are newly minted, and have aspirations towards being the next Google It s obvious, but I sometimes get carried away by how wonderful Google is as a research tool, and forget that Google is not the Web There are parts of the Web the so-called invisible Web that neither Google nor any other search engine can see For example, Webmasters can intentionally decline to have their pages indexed And Google may not be able to return information from subscription-only Web sites See 10 to learn more about finding research information that is not available through Google

Table 2-1 shows some of the non-Google search engines available, with a comment indicating why the search engine might be of interest to a researcher (considering that you already have Google)

Table 2-1

Primary Source Search Engines (Other Than Google)

Why It s Worth Trying AltaVista created the first index of the Web (in 1995), and at one point was the big kahuna of Web searching Now owned by the pay-or-searchplacement business Overture Services, AltaVista may still be worth a look if only out of nostalgia Ask Jeeves specializes in natural language searches, so you can ask it a question and expect to get a (mostly) reasonable answer from its site index and paid listings The extent of the natural language processing this site does is debatable Mostly it takes questions and removes common words; then it performs a regular search Ask Jeeves uses the Teoma database and index

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Why It s Worth Trying This search engine from Amazon makes keeping track of sites you ve visited easy and lets you view thumbnails of Web pages (a useful feature) But it yields Google-like results because it uses Google to conduct basic searches An interesting feature is that it combines Google search results with Amazon Search Inside the Book results, so if you think the information you are looking for might be in a book, this is a good search engine to try Founded a few years ago, GigaBlast claims to be able to index up to 200 billion Web pages with the least amount of hardware possible A very cool search engine One of the oldest search engines on the Web, HotBot is owned by Terra/ Lycos HotBot uses an index and database supplied by Inktomi by default You can click a button and have HotBot alternatively use the index and database supplied by either Google or Ask Jeeves/Teoma The ability to switch indexes and databases is a neat feature, but the native (Inktomi) search lacks depth and advanced functionality IceRocket is a good place to find current Web content as opposed to established Web sites It specializes in blogs and RSS (Really Simple Syndication) feeds; it has a great index of cellphone camera pictures MSN Search is gearing up to be a Google-killer, although it currently has far fewer pages indexed than Google

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