Alternatives to Google G oing on an E xpedition for the P erfect S earch E ngine April 12, 2007 Teaching Excellence Seminar Hope Marie Cook

After this session I hope… You will leave here with a magical list of search engines that I downloaded from an article by Charles Knight You will try at least two new search engines each week You will actively evaluate and use some of the search engines that have been previewed You will pass this information on to others

Why use anything else? According to Charles S. Knight, "Search Engine Optimizer” SEO, 99.9% of searches are conducted using the following: 1, Google 2. Yahoo 3. MSN 4. Ask.com

What’s the Difference Between a Directory and a Search Engine? Directories are compiled by people-Sites that attempt to organize a large amount of information Search Engines are automated A directory is a listing of links compiled by someone as opposed to an intelligent agent.

An Example of a Directory About.com

A sk.com An Example of a Search Engine

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Ms. Dewey ChaCha KartOO - A Clustering Engine Ujiko

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Altavista Jux2 Ditto- Visual Search Engine SurfWax

The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Mojeek Exalead

Ms. Dewey

ChaCha

ChaCha -Human Chat

KartOO - A Clustering Engine

Ujiko

Altavista

Altavista

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Altavista

Clusty

Jux2

Ditto- Visual Search Engine

SurfWax

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Mojeek