Tuesday, July 8, 2008

Search Engines

I admit that when I use a search engine, I usually choose Google first. Before Google became the first choice of search engines at a library where I used to work, I employed Dogpile all the time for my searches. Now I cannot believe how clunky it seems. It did produced a lot of results on my test topic, "Great Britain budget travel for women," but I could not find a total number of hits displayed.
Using Mamma, I had only 34 results, but they seemed more relevant.
The last search engine I tried was Rollyo, which had just a few relevant results. My only big surprise was that Rollyo placed advertising in the middle of the results list randomly. I found that extremely annoying.

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