1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. An Example of a Directory About.com http://about.com/

6. A sk.com http://www.ask.com/ http://www.ask.com/ An Example of a Search Engine

7. The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Ms. Dewey http://www.msdewey.com/ http://www.msdewey.com/ ChaCha http://www.chacha.com/http://www.chacha.com/ KartOO - A Clustering Engine http://www.kartoo.com/ http://www.kartoo.com/ Ujiko http://www.ujiko.com http://www.ujiko.com

8. The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Altavista http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.altavista.com/ Jux2 http://www.jux2.com http://www.jux2.com Ditto- Visual Search Engine www.ditto.com SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com http://www.surfwax.com

9. The Search Engines That Will Be Covered Today Mojeek http://www.mojeek.com/ http://www.mojeek.com/ Exalead http://www.exalead.com/search

10. Ms. Dewey http://www.msdewey.com/ http://www.msdewey.com/

11. ChaCha http://www.chacha.com/http://www.chacha.com/

12. ChaCha -Human Chat

13. KartOO - A Clustering Engine http://www.kartoo.com/ http://www.kartoo.com/

15. Ujiko http://www.ujiko.com http://www.ujiko.com

16. Altavista http://www.altavista.com/ http://www.altavista.com/

17. Altavista

18. I entered Eastern’ s URL and asked for Babel Fish to translat e the site from English to Japanes e.

19. Altavista

20. Clusty http://clusty.com http://clusty.com

21. Jux2 http://www.jux2.com http://www.jux2.com

22. Ditto- Visual Search Engine www.ditto.com www.ditto.com

23. SurfWax http://www.surfwax.com http://www.surfwax.com

24. http://www.exalead.com/s earch

25. Mojeek http://www.mojeek.com/ http://www.mojeek.com/