What Are The Top Search Engines By Ron Eletrick At Isnare.com Ezine Articles

A search for the top search engines, (I know it is over use of word but no option) will result in the famous Google(irrespective of you use Google or not to do your search). The next in the list at sites like Web Pro World as contenders for the top search engines after Google, or in Jason Lee Miller world “titans, battling for Internet Supremacy”, are Yahoo and Microsoft.

Next in the list are : AltaVista, Magellan, WebCrawler, InfoSeek and HotBot. But there are pretty strong reasons to include other engines in the category of “top search engines” like DMOZ,AOL etc. How many of you actually use Excite, PlanetSearch, BigWhat, CyberDirectory, SearchSite, DirectHit(Teoma), Search King, InfoMak and many more?

Have they just vanished off the Internet world? Have they given up their intentions to be one of the top search engines? And most importantly, does the average net surfer even bother to consider which are the top or the most useful search engines?

In most cases regular people find a search engine that is user friendly among all and always prefer it even if ranks low and its total financial position is weak. Here is a great internet related site http://www.spideywebinfo.com. We may even completely ignore the fact of them being kings or lagging in the run for top search engine and use all as top search engines, as per what the search engine is known to be efficient in.

Tracy Marks, web guru of Windweaver says that the best method to use the top search engines is to utilize the one that is best suited for our aim. For example, Tracy recommends Yahoo!, Magellan or in his opinion top search engines like NetGuide Live or Lycos Pointcom to know about a specific subject. In order to include older archived files for your search, Magellan,WebCrawler, InforSeek are recommended. To exploit the net to the maximum extent Alta Vista or Infoseek again is advised. Obviously, Marks had this site deployed for novices well in advance before Google entered the race in 1997.

I have found that to really test the so called top search engines, you can test their utility by attempting a search for the same subject on all. Typically, the same results appear no matter how many times you search, the only difference might be the order ( a ranking concept and entirely different and independent issue), font, color, and such other things. But the same search will give you the identical results always.

Tracy marks is right when he says: What we want and need is information. Only the scholars or advanced surfers require something more than a standard commercial product. We will only seek something that is not like the mainstream information and is not redundant, with Google or without it.

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