Monday, September 15, 2014

Search Engines

Google's definition of a search engine is "a program that searches for and identifies items in a database that corresponds to the keywords or characters specified by the user, used particular to find sites on the World Wide Web."

Ask.com
Ask.com also known as askjeeves.com is an engine that gives direct answers to questions from the web and real people. You can find answers to all questions in all subjects of education. This website also includes a toolbar for download to get you quicker access to the site with quicker results. This a great search engine to find answers to all questions.

IMDB
This is a search engine dedicated to the entertainment field. You can search for almost anyone who has released music, acted in a television show, movie, play, basically almost anyone in the entertainment field. If you have a favorite actor and is looking for movie that they starred in simply search their name and anything they appeared in will show along with the character description, date, and title of the work,
Youtube
According to Google's definition, you tube is a search engine that mainly searches for videos and playlist. YouTube users can sign up for an account where they can subscribe to pages that interest them most. you can pretty much find any video your looking for whether its cooking, comedy, music, and almost every other topic out there.
Yahoo
This is a search engine that includes email accounts, information on jobs, horoscopes, stocks, news, shopping etc. This engine is not best used for research projects, but for world news, stocks and all of its miscellaneous uses. Email is another great feature of this website. It includes chat, calendar, and an online social profile.
magnifying glass on the word searchWolframAlpha
This is a search engine is used to calculate all kinds of information including science and math. This website gives knowledge not by searching the web but using built in data algorithms and methods. This search engine is used best when searching for information along the subjects of math science, and data.
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a search engine that searches for all kinds of information. Its best used for biographies, projects, history reports, research papers, or anything that has to do with information. It is not best to use this site because anyone could add information whether it is true or not.
Tumblr
Tumblr is a website where you can search and view blogs of subjects that interest that interest you most, whether it is fashion, cooking, sports, pretty much anything. You can receive information, new ideas, and it is very entertaining also. This site is mainly for searching blogs.



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