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Search Engines

Author:

Hazel Cummins

Date:

Monday, 28th Jan 2008 16:10

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1,448 (excluding Digests and RSS feeds)

Category:

Internet Searching, Webmaster, eCommerce

URL:

http://www.freepint.com/go/b244158

Being lazy I tend to use Google all the time. What other search engines do people use? Are there any search engines better than google for particular uses. I work in the financial services sector but would be interested in anyone's opinion.

Thanks

Hazel

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	Search Engines
	Being lazy I tend to use Google all the time. What other search engines do people use? Are ...

Hazel Cummins

28/01/08 16:10

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	Re: Search Engines
	A Google-free day - even a Google-free hour - is a good practice. Charles Knight maintains a list of alternate engines ...

Gwen Harris

13/02/08 16:52

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	Re: Search Engines
	I use Clusty and I love it. I didn't know about iZito in the UK, thanks!

Cathy

27/02/08 12:27

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	Re: Search Engines
	I have declared Wednesdays, all Wednesdays, a Google-Free Day. ( see http://www.confidentialresource.com/?p=161 and http://www.confidentialresource.com/?p=163) Looking at Phil's list of search engines ...

Richard McEachin

29/01/08 16:49

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	Re: Search Engines
	Hello Richard and Fellow Canuck, Regarding Phil Bradley's list of Canadian search engines (http://www.philb.com/cse/canada.htm) - Phil does wonderful work compiling these ...

Gwen Harris

13/02/08 16:57

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	Re: Search Engines
	Hi Gwen, it's Google Free Wednesday, I just used the Virtual Reference Library from the Toronto Public Library - ...

Rick McEachin

13/02/08 17:51

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	Re: Search Engines
	in your article you mentioned accona.com and that is not correct Accona.com and Accona.eu are good for searching on business names. ...

britta nordstrom

27/02/08 15:46

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	Re: Search Engines
	Thanks guys for all your suggestions

Hazel Cummins

30/01/08 09:02

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	Re: Search Engines
	Dear Hazel, Phil's tips are great, and I also like Karen Blakeman website http://www.rba.co.uk/ and her "Tales from the Terminal ...

Jana

29/01/08 15:12

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	Re: Search Engines
	I can echo the good coverage of Tales from the Terminal Room. 2 engines that I occasionally use are meta-search ...

David Renfree

14/02/08 16:28

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	Re: Search Engines
	Hi David Trovando.it is pleasing to look at - and the all-in-one kind of page that lists many choices can be ...

Gwen

27/02/08 16:27

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	Re: Search Engines
	Well, the last time that I checked there were in excess of half a million search engines, though of course ...

Phil Bradley

28/01/08 18:15

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	Re: Search Engines
	I have been using jux2.com for a while to help make search terms more specific to one search engine, usually ...

Richard McEachin

10/03/08 18:27

267990

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