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Orion Middle School: OMS Library Media Center: Search Engines

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Search Engines

by Marg Robertson

Search Engines & Specialized Engines

 

Google

largest search engine

Google Image Swirl

organizes image search results based on their visual similarity

Google Fast Flip

Fast Flip is a new reading experience that combines the best elements of print and online articles. Like a print magazine, Fast Flip lets you browse sequentially through bundles of recent news, headlines and popular topics, as well as feeds from individual top publishers.

Bing

this search engine combines Live Search, Windows Live Search, and MSN Search

Bing Visual Search

refine your search by selecting images

Viewzi

shows results in pictures not just words

Quintura

provides search results in a visual “cloud”

Yahoo!

 

Ask.com

 

Clusty

“Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clusters…”

Carrot2

returns search results divided into themes

DuckDuckGo

“With less clicking forward and back between links, it is for anyone who wants to get information faster.”

Boolify

To begin your search, move a green keyword piece to the board. Refine your search adding pieces, and, not, or, or a URL to limit your search.

Study Search

search engine designed in Australia for students

Wayback Machine

Browse through over 150 billion web pages archived from 1996 to a few months ago.

 

 
 

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