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Switching your search engines.(on the net)

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| May 01, 2007 | Notess, Greg R. | COPYRIGHT 2007 Information Today, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

For many information needs, a simple search at any Web search engine will find at least a few pages with the desired answers. Sticking with just one search engine--whether it is Google, Yahoo!, Live, or Ask--can work well as long as that search engine answers all queries. It is when the search favorite fails to deliver or when comprehensive results are desired that the differences between the search engines' underlying databases make it necessary to use several of them.

While many Web wanderers think that Google is comprehensive, and Google itself claims the lofty aim of organizing the world's information, many information nuggets remain excluded. When searching ...

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