Tuesday's Tech Tips: Search Engines: Beyond the Big Three, Now With Humans! PDF Print E-mail

The top three search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Bing, are great, but there are many others worth checking out, including several that rely on actual human beings for the quality of their results, and some that take security and privacy very seriously.

 

Links mentioned in this week's Tuesday's Tech Tips:


Popular search engines with largely algorithmic results:


http://www.google.com/

http://www.yahoo.com/

http://www.bing.com/

http://www.ask.com/ and http://www.teoma.com/

http://duckduckgo.com/


Search engines with significant human contributions to search results:

http://blekko.com/

http://www.mahalo.com/

http://www.chacha.com/


Search engines that support SSL encryption:

https://encrypted.google.com/

https://duckduckgo.com/

https://blekko.com/

https://www.startingpage.com/


Data:

Top Search Engines in Early 2011, as reported by Compete.com

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines
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BS - E_volution
From the album "Best of":
http://www.jamendo.com/en/album/56529
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