Sunday, February 15, 2015

Project#15 Search Engines

WolframAlpha
This search engine introduces a fundamental way to get knowledge and answers by doing dynamic computations based on a collections of built in data, algorithms, and methods. They aim to collect all objective data, implement every known model, method and algorithm, and make it possible to compute whatever can be computed about anything. There goal is to build on the achievements of science and other systems of knowledge to provide a single source that can be relied on by everyone for definitive answers. With a world class team and participation from top outside experts in countless fields, their goal is to create something that will stand as a major milestone of 21st century intellectual achievement.
This search engine is a great way to learn how to do calculate math problems and many other topics as well. The different topics that you can search are linguistics, measures, history, statistics, chemistry, finance, art, music, and so much more.

ChaCha
This search engine gives free, real time answers to any question both online and through mobile phones by using one of their mobile apps. It has become the leading answers service with more than a billion questions to date all in a fun, conversational format perfect for those in need of fast, free answers while on the go. It enables advertisers and marketers to reach and engage their customers in real time.
This search engine lets you ask any question and it will directly answer your questions. It also shows you other questions that people have asked and the most popular questions.

Blekko
This search engine is one the top spam and virus free search engines used for the latest updates on news, gossip, dates, and much more. Their mission is to create a differentiated search experience by delivering high quality, curated results and organizing content into categories. Blekko's technology operates on a unique system that intersects their own original search index and editorial evaluation. Using the text from the web stored in their data center, they distill the text and links down to a small semantic database, and they use that database to map queries to a large list of editorially crafted slashtag filters. Slashtags are a way to limit results. It is a tool used to filter results, rather than search the entire web, it allows you to search just the sites you want searched.

Lycos
Lycos is one of the original and most widely known internet brands in the world, evolving from one of the first search engines on the web into a comprehensive digital media destination for consumers across the world. It is a web portal that encompasses a network of email, web hosting, social networking, and entertaining websites. Lycos has a network of easy to use community and social sites whose products and services include tools for blogging, web publishing, online games, email, and search.

HotBot
HotBot is a search engine that is currently owned by Lycos. It use to be one of the most complete search engines, Now it mainly provides a portal to other search engines. Along with other sites associated with Lycos, it helps bring people together to interact, conduct commerce, have fun, and experience the best the internet has to offer.

DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo is a search engine driven by community that emphasizes protecting searchers' privacy of personalized search results. It distinguishes itself from other search engines by not collecting any personal information and by showing all users the same search results and helping users get to where they want to go in fewer clicks. In order to get users the best instant answers from the best sources, they introduce DuckDuckHack, which is an open source platform where anyone can suggest or create instant answers for their results.

Dogpile
Dogpile was created by InfoSpace and is powered by Metasearch. It returns all the best results from leading search engines including Google and Yahoo, so that you can find what you are looking for faster. Dogpile looks at all the different search results, decides which are most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals the remaining results.

Excite
Excite is one of the most recognized names on the internet  and among the internet's most personalized portals featuring a completely customized start page. It is a collection of web sites and services that offer a variety of content showing news, weather, etc. The content is collected from over 100 different sources.

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