Project #15-Search Engines

WolframAlpha
Wolfram Alpha has all of the algorithms, models, and methods. This search engine is best used as a knowledge based search engine that helps clarify the information.This search engine allows you to put in a free-form language input and then finds the information in a computerized result. I believe this would be a great resource when looking for charts and different data and simple clarifications for each.

Lycos
Lycos is a search engine that allows its' users to rank the relevance of the sites that are used. Reviewers of this site choose the top 5% of sites. This site allows you to use simple keywords to simplify searches. This search engine works by allowing you to search key words and then even simplify the search even more. I believe that Lycos would be a good search engine to use if you were just searching up information by using key words.

Dogpile
Dogpile is a search engine that is a one-stop shop because it finds the sites that are most relevant to your search and eliminates duplicates so that it saves you time. Dogpile works by taking your search terms and sending the information to many different search engines and just provides different gateways to receive the information. I believe this would be a good search engine if you are wanting the most information about different search items.

Bing
Bing is a search engine that one can merely search for brand names and be able to find social profiles. It also keeps track of how many clicks it takes to get to different pages and weighs the relevancy by the clicks. Bing works by taking each of its sources and calculating the word frequency. Bing would be a good source to use if you were looking for a source with certain words in it.

isoHunt
isoHunt is a digital mediabase search engine that allows searches and downloads of many different digital aspects. When on isoHunt you just search for whatever content that you are looking for and then one just downloads the content. I believe that this search engine would only be good for looking up digital information and not for any other searches.

Open Directory
Open Directory is the largest directory on the web to be human-edited. Open Directory allows different people to create their on websites about topics that they are familiar with. This would be a great search engine if one was looking for different opinions for different topics.

Yahoo
Yahoo is a search engine that gives the latest news, entertainment, and much more. Yahoo allows searches to be completed in the United States for a world wide audience. Yahoo is a good site to go to to get the latest information.

Ask
Ask is a search engine that is opinion based and allows one to ask questions and get answers from others. Ask would be a good source to get answers to questions