Search Engines

Everything that we might ever wonder about can be found in search engines. They are more than an encyclopedia of the 21^st century. Search engines help us find what we want in the World Wide Web. The engines can look for definitions, recipes, news and even tutorials about practically anything.

 There is quite a number of search engines, most notably Google and Yahoo. These two search engines are the most popular and have the largest databases. Google has even become a legitimate verb. “To Google” is a verb to describe “using a search engine”. Yet these two are not the only search engines out there.

Goodsearch.com – This search engine is unique in that it donates 50% of its revenue, about a penny per search, to listed American charities and schools designated by its users. There are currently 81,671 non-profit organizations participating with Goodsearch.com.

Ixquick.com(startpage.com) – This search engine takes pride in the fact that it no longer records the searcher’s IP address, making searches private and secure.

Bing.com – This is the new Microsoft search engine, redesigned after the failure of MSN Search and Live Search. It features a homepage that’s background changes daily, a left side navigation panel, sublinks, a feature called “instant answers”. Instant Answers contains calculators, financial stock info, sports scores, car info, flight status, and celebrity status called xrank.

Blingo.com – This is a unique search engine run by Publishing Clearing House that awards prizes to users at random. The prizes can range movie tickets, to cash prizes.