My Top 5 Search Engine
Hello, As a student I frequently find myself lost when my teacher introduces us to a lesson. Most of the time it sounds like my teachers uses an ancient alien language when talking about things like Planck's constant, Points of the latus rectum of a parabola, and The structure of a protein. Worst of all my physics teacher would even write symbols that would relate this variable to another equation and to a another one and to another, it's like an deciphering Egyptian hieroglyphics!
So you ask the people around you for help....... but it seems that what the teacher taught in class today was from another universe since nobody in your home knows what it means. This would be the time when most of us say, we're screwed. That would be your experience if you living in an area where technology, for some weird reason, is forbidden. Good thing we have this thing called the internet, and with the help of a search engine, we can scour the world wide web for some information that could help me make any sense of my teachers's lessons. These are the search engines that have been my companions in my dark ages.
We all know the Google is the best and most popular website in the world and an undisputed giant search engine in the internet world since its launch in the year of 1998. From the very starting of its foundation, Google has always been very popular and famous all around the world as a search engine giant, god ! When you google something It would provide you a number of topics and usually the one you were searching for was in it. For me it is and would always be the common man's search engine.
Yahoo
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Yahoo was founded in 1994 and Yahoo as a search engine was started in 2002 and soon Yahoo became one among the best and top favorite search engine globally. Yahoo! is several things: it is a search engine, a news station, a shopping center, an emailbox, a travel directory, a horoscope and games center, and more. So if you want a search engine that is both user friendly, organized and professional, then Yahoo is your go-to search engine.
Bing
Bing is Microsoft's attempt at unseating Google. Bing used to be MSN search until it was updated in summer of 2009. Touted as a 'decision engine', Bing tries to support your researching by offering suggestions. When i tried it, Bing gave me several suggestions such as related searches, wiki articles and even visual representations regarding what i searched. I need all the help I can to understand my lessons. Bing is what your looking for if you want a very beginner friendly search engine that would chew the information for you
Wolfram Alpha
Wolfram Alpha is
more than a search engine. It gives you access to the world's facts and
data and calculates answers across a range of topics, including science, mathematics,
english and anything under the sun. It has been my replacement for Wikipedia when searching for information regarding school work. Wolfram Alpha is great because not
only that it gives you a detailed and easy explanation of your
problem but also solves it and shows you how. It has been a life saver for me
when I have the occasional math assignment wherein you put your mind
to work but nothing make sense. I just need to go to wolfram alpha, write the
equation, and poof!, there is your answer and how it was solved. The only down
side is that if you don't recognize the explanation from your teacher's
lecture, and you can't back up your answer, then don't try to use the
explanation showed by Wolfram Alpha because the teacher would usually mark it
wrong for using a different solution.
DuckDuckGo
At first, DuckDuckGo.com looks like Google. But there are many subtleties that make this spartan search engine different. DuckDuckGo has some slick features, like 'zero-click' information (all your answers are found on the first results page). DuckDuckgo offers disambiguation prompts (helps to clarify what question you are really asking). And the ad spam is much less than Google. When i gave it a try I really like it's very clean, fast and simple way of providing information.
I hope these search engine would help you as it helps me in my crusade for knowledge...... and guys, keep your searches clean.
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