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Search Engines
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Alexa
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Here, users can search web content, as well as the mroe common use, which is to check traffic rankings. The web sites here are monitored, based off of the statistics sent by the Alexa toolbar, and ranked by the amount of traffic they receive.
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http://www.alexa.com
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Ask.com
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Search this engine for questions, which will then return the answer, or suggested pages, containing information about the searched topic.
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http://www.ask.com
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Bing
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Microsoft's new decision engine, which is meant to innovate, bring the best search results to the users, provide accurate results, allow for the expansion and exportation of data, and allow for more advanced and complex queries.
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http://www.bing.com
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Blekko
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An interesting concept for a search engine, this one allows the user to narrow their search by slashing out unwanted results. Both by category and phrase, the user can eliminate undesired results, which helps drastically reduce the amount of results returned, and also helps eliminate "content farms" from populating the results with unwanted Spam results.
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http://blekko.com
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Dogpile
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An online search engine, which allows users to search for information on a particular topic, phrase, word, sentence, or other desired search criteria, and review the web pages, indexed in this search engine, to find more information on that topic.
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http://www.dogpile.com
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Freeality
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Search for content, on multiple search engines, all from a single web site. Also, browse different categories, in order to ensure the results are as precise as possible.
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http://www.freeality.com
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Google
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A very popular search engine, this search engine allows users to search for key words, phrases, sentences, or a specific word, or group of words. Users can then be given web pages with that information, the definition of the word, a conversion between units of measure, a calculation, and much more.
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http://www.google.com
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Let Me Google That For You
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Exactly as the name suggests, this web site allows the user to go there, type in a question, then send a custom URL to another user, who can paste it into their browser, or click on it, and be provided with the Google results for that search.
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MSN
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This search engine allows users to search for news, information, sports-related information, or general searching on the World Wide Web, and view the web pages returned, which contain information on their searched topic.
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http://www.msn.com
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Open Directory Project
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The goal of the ODP is to be the largest human-reviewed directory on the web. Users can submit web sites, in different categories, as well as view the existing entries. The web sites are reviewed, by moderators, and determined to be legitimate, or not, in order to give the user the best experience possible.
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http://www.dmoz.org
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Yahoo!
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Although this web site offers many more features, such as chat, e-mail, weather, the Yahoo! Answers community, and others, search is an additional feature, which is utilized by many visitors. Users can submit their desired search term, and view the web sites, indexed by Yahoo!'s search engine, in order to find information on their searched topic.
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http://www.yahoo.com
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