Scribd
Upload
63 views

SHS Search Engines

SHS

Uploaded by

Lee Cel
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
63 views

SHS Search Engines

SHS

Uploaded by

Lee Cel
Copyright
© © All Rights Reserved
Available Formats
Download as PPTX, PDF, TXT or read online on Scribd
You are on page 1/ 19

SAY GOODBYE TO GOOGLE: 14

ALTERNATIVE SEARCH ENGINES


1. BING
• Microsoft’s search engine is the second most popular search engine in the
world, with 15.8% of the search market.
BUT WHY SHOULD YOU USE BING? LIFEHACKER HAS SOME
GREAT ARTICLES WHERE THEY TRY TO CONVINCE
THEMSELVES AS MUCH AS ANYONE ELSE WHY BING IS A
SERIOUS CONTENDER TO GOOGLE. PLUS POINTS INCLUDE:
• Bing’s video search is significantly better than Google’s, giving you a grid of large
thumbnails that you can click on to play or preview if you hover over them.
• Bing often gives twice as many autocomplete suggestions than Google does.
• Bing can predict when airfares are about to go up or down if you’re searching for flights.
• Bing also has a feature where if you type linkfromdomain:[site name] it will highlight the
best ranked outgoing links from that site, helping you figure out which other sites your
chosen site links to the most.
• Also note that Bing powers Yahoo’s search engine.
2. DUCKDUCKGO
THE KEY FEATURE OF DUCKDUCKGO IS THAT IT DOESN’T RETAIN ITS
USERS’ DATA, SO IT WON’T TRACK YOU OR MANIPULATE RESULTS
BASED ON YOUR BEHAVIOUR. SO IF YOU’RE PARTICULARLY SPOOKED
BY GOOGLE’S ALL-SEEING, ALL-KNOWING EYE, THIS MIGHT BE THE
ONE FOR YOU.
• Right now Google has their standard competitors and a recent upstart
called DuckDuckGo.
• Just like Ello was to Facebook, DuckDuckGo will not retain or use
consumer data. This has caused a lot of digital media outlets to cover
this challenging newcomer.
• DuckDuckGo is filling a niche that in the world of the internet today
solves a major issue consumer’s face… privacy.
3. QUORA
• As Google gets better and better at answering more complicated questions, it will
never be able to match the personal touch available with Quora.
4. DOGPILE
• Dogpile may look like a search engine you cobbled together with clip-art, but
that’s rather the point as it pulls in and ‘curates’ results from various different
engines including Google, Yandex and Yahoo, but removes all the ads.
5. VIMEO
Of course if you’re going to give up Google, then you’ll also have to give up
YouTube, which can be a terrifying prospect. But there is an alternative. And a pretty
good one at that… Vimeo. The professional’s choice of video-sharing site, which has
lots of HD video and no ads.
6. YANDEX

• This is a Russian portal, offering many similar products and services as Google, and
it’s the dominant search engine in Russia.
• As you can see it offers results in a nice logical format, replete with favicons so you
can clearly see the various channels for your branded queries.
7. BOARDREADER

• If you want to get into the nitty-


gritty of a subject with a variety
of different points of view away
from the major publications,
Boardreader surfaces results purely
from forums, message boards and,
of course, Reddit.
8. WOLFRAMALPHA

• WolframAlpha is a ‘computational knowledge engine’, or super clever nerd to you


and me. Ask it to calculate any data or ask it about any fact and it will give you
the answer. Plus it does this awesome ‘computing’ thing while it thinks about your
answer (which can take a short while.)
• It’s not always successful, you have to practice how to get the best from it. But at
least it’s aware of the terrible 90s television show The Dinosaurs.
9. IXQUICK

• Another search engine that puts its


users’ privacy at the forefront.
With IxQuick none of your details
are stored and no cookies are
used. A user can set preferences,
but they will be deleted after 90
days of inactivity.
10. ASK.COM
• Oh look… Ask Jeeves is still around. Also he’s no longer a Wodehousian butler, but a
computer generated bank manager. Weird.
It’s still a slightly mediocre
search engine pretending to be
a question and answer site, but
the ‘Popular Q&A’ results found
on the right hand side are very
handy if Jeeves himself can’t
satisfy your query. And what a
good use of the right-hand side
space, huh Google?
11. SLIDESHARE
• SlideShare is a really handy place to source information from presentations, slide
decks, webinars and whatever else you may have missed from not attending a
conference.

You’ll also be surprised


what information you can
find there.
12. ADDICT-O-MATIC
• “Inhale the web” with the friendly looking hoover guy by creating your own topic
page, which you can bookmark and see results from a huge number of channels in
that one page (including Google, Bing News, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr).
13. CREATIVE COMMONS SEARCH
• CC Search is particularly handy if you need to find copyright free images for your
website (as discussed in this post on image optimisation for SEO). Just type your query
in then click on your chosen site you want to search.
14. GIPHY
• Because really, when it comes down to it, we could imagine a worse dystopian
future than one in which we all communicate entirely in Gifs.

You might also like