Sunday, June 3, 2012

 Search Engines and Websites

Search Tool: Bing

Developed by Microsoft, Bing organized search terms into categories related to suggestions. The advanced search helps to refine your search by including additional terms. 

 Search Options:

-Web: depending on search, related categories may appear such as shopping or Local

-Images: choose from a variety of pictures pertaining to current events, people, or news.

-Videos: view top videos, virals, animals, news, TV, msn originals, celebrity, discovery networks, most watched, and more-

-Maps: you can get directions, view traffic, view businesses, explore map imagery, venue maps, map apps

-Explore: shows what you can do on Bing, including... web, images, videos, shopping, news, maps, local, travel, entertainment, social, rewards, editors picks, search history, finance, weather, translator

-More: directs you straight to explore



Metasearch Tool: Yippy

Formerly known as Clusty, Yippy subdivides results into topics or "clouds" which groups related sites.

 Choose from: PC, Tablet, or Mobile

 More search options...
 
 Select source drop down list:

-Web
-News
-Images
-Yuck out
-Football
-Maps
-Wikipedia
-Shakespeare
-Ben Franklin
-Wii
-Shopping
-Government
-Jobs
-Blogs


Subject Directories: Digital Librarian

 This site contains a wide variety of information, is well-organized, and organizes Internet sites by subject.

-Offers a wide variety of general topics
- Each topic is divided into subtopics and good websites pertaining to main topic
- And you have the choice to search amazon for books, objects, etc.










1 comment:

  1. Hi, Amanda:

    Thanks for your report. I was hoping for a bit more in depth summary of how each was different or displayed results or filtered your searches...Would you use any of these search tools again, did they seem useful?

    Cheers,
    Andrea

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