Top Search Engines
A search for the top search engines, if you will pardon the redundancy, will likely first lead you to the almighty Google (even if you are using Google to do your search, or especially if you are using Google to do your search). Then, as net specialists at such premier internetworking (did I just coin a word?) sites as Web Pro World will deem them, the top search engines after Google, what the brilliant Jason Lee Miller calls the “titans…battling for Internet Supremacy…,” are Yahoo! and Microsoft.
Next in the top search engines line-up, or pile-up, come the runners up: AltaVista, Magellan, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, and HotBot. But as well, there is good reason to include in the “top search engines” categorical imperative, if we must use such a method at all, the “others”. What about DMOZ, for instance? Or what happened to AOL? And how many use or aware of Excite, PlanetSearch, BigWhat, CyberDirectory, SearchSite, DirectHit (Teoma), Search King, InfoMak, and so many others? Have they gone the way of the information highway’s gutter? Have they acquiesced, relinquished the notion of being considered and used as one of the top search engines? And more, does the common net surfer care which are considered the top search engines?
Maybe each of us regular guys finds, by trial and error, etc., a search engine that works for us, that is most easily navigable, that is most user friendly, and sticks with it, regardless of its ranking, status, or financial net worth (no pun intended). Or maybe we could forego the issuing of crowns and scepters to the so-called top search engines and use all of them as top search engines…each according to its most reliable function.
That is, according to Tracy Marks, web guru of Windweaver.com and I am sure numerous other endeavors, the way to use the top search engines is to access the engine that fits according to your purposes. For instance, Tracy suggests, to “browse a [particular] subject,” use Yahoo! Or Magellan…or, for what Marks designates as top search engines, NetGuide Live or Lycos Pointcom. To “include older gopher files in your search,” use Magellan, WebCrawler, or InfoSeek. To “search as much of the web as possible,” use Alta Vista or, again, InfoSeek. And evidently, Marks developed the helpful site for newbies long before Google was even a contender in the race across (or through) cyberspace…in 1997.
What I have found, as far as the “top” search engines go, is that you can test their “usability” by trying a search for the same subject. You will find, typically, that the same results appear…maybe in a slightly different order (and that’s another ranking issue altogether) and maybe in a different color, font, graphic configuration, or whathaveyou…but the same effort will produce the same results on umpteen different top search engines. Tracy Marks has the right idea for scholars or serious, dedicated surfers who want more than a standard commercial product that will pop on anywhere, though: regardless of what the top search engines are doing to make more money for themselves, what we want and need is information. If that means going to select crawlers for select tasks—for news, white papers, or literary analyses, or whatever else that differs from mainstream information glutted and reiterated in less than useful ways—then that is what we will do, in spite of Google or with Google’s help.
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