Monday 16 April 2007

Can you break the google habit??

In the uk Google dominates 75% of the search engine market! But what about the other engines?

There is nothing really to prove that google has any better results than search engines like Ask but it seems using the convenient google toolbar has become a very habitual thing. This may be due to its easy uncluttered homepage and its downloadable toolbars and services such as Gmail and GoogleEarth.

Many people seem to think they have typed something wrong into google if they cant get the results they want, it doesnt occur to them that maybe this major search engine doesnt have the information they need. A resolution to this problem is the idea of 'meta-search'. this is a search engine that compiles its results from several different search engines.

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2 comments:

Unknown said...

try dogpile.com it searches the major search engines

SkybaMedia said...

Or if you’re looking for niche sites, like travel, there’s always sidestep.com. Sometimes you just have to narrow down the search and try something smaller than Google.