Jinfo: Engineering Results: Some Alternative Search Engines

Engineering Results: Some Alternative Search Engines
Jinfo Article

1st February 2009

Abstract

Familiarity and habit may drive searchers to the ‘Big Four' of search engines but, as Adrian Janes has discovered, there are number of country- and topic-driven search engines that may do the job more efficiently. This article highlights a few of his favourites that, for reasons of focus or design, have an edge on the household name search engines.

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