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Top 5 Search Engines

•    Google  

•    Yahoo! 

•    Bing 

•    Ask  

•    AOL Search

Advanced Search-Why? - Find web pages that have...

 •    

All these words:

•     This exact wording

•     Phrase

•     One or more of these words

•     Don't show pages that have...

•     Any of these unwanted words

•     Reading level

•     Language

•     File type

•     Search within a site or domain

http://www.google.ca/advanced_search

12 Google Search Alternatives

Wolfram-Alpha 

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

•     Computational Knowledge Engine
  world's facts and data and calculates answers across a range of topics

Spezify

   http://www.spezify.com/

Spezify aggregates search result

Including social network

Large number of Internet data sources

KartOO

 •     An interesting visual meta Search Engine- Interesting results

DuckDuckGo (DDG) 

    http://duckduckgo.com/

•     Partnered - Blekko, to improve search results.

•     Pulls data from Wikipedia & Free Dictionalry

FactBites 

http://www.factbites.com/

•   draws on web’s vast amount of encyclopedias/information

Quintura 

http://quintura.com/

•   redefines how search results should be displayed

Clusty (aka 'Yippy')  

  http://search.yippy.com/

 •      Deep Web engine-searches other search engines for you

Infospace  

http://www.infospace.com/

•     Results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, and real-time updates from Twitter

 •     All at the same time.

Pikadeo - Find products with your phone camera

•     Pikadeo is an image-recognition tool

 •     Recognise products from posters, packaging, magazine pages and labels

ScanLife

- Search by barcode

•     Cameraphone into a barcode scanne

http://web.scanlife.com/us_en/

 •     Barcode will take you directly to the correct product

Siri - Voice-based personal assistant 

•     Mobile    http://siri.com/

•    Voice activated