Three New Search Engines Worth Checking Out

21.03.2011

For example, searching for "PC World magazine" displays a box with a snippet of info from Wikipedia, plus links to various websites, underneath which is listed the usual set of results you might see for the search term.

DuckDuckGo also claims to ban spam sites--the sites that seem to show useful results in search listings but are simply full of ads.

There's a handful of other interesting features, such as bang searches, where a site name preceded with an exclamation mark will use the search feature of the specific site. For example, !wikipedia barack obama will use Wikipedia's own search feature to find pages related to Barack Obama. There's a you can use and some are intelligent--using !java, for example, will search the portion of Oracle's site dedicated to Java documentation.

DuckDuckGo is the most polished of the search engines mentioned here but it doesn't really offer much to switch users away from Google. However, if you really don't like Google, Bing or Yahoo, then it's perhaps the next best option.

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