Monday, July 13, 2009

Searching...

I am certainly a creature of habit. It doesn't matter what new search engines pop up and how great people make them out to be, I will always be a Googler. Not that I don't try them, of course, but I always end up using Google.

What I like about Lexxe is that there are no ads to distract you while looking at the list of results. It's a very clean and specific search engine. I typed in 'draw manga' as my search and 100 results were shown, compared to Google's 2,090,000 results. The Cluster on the left side of the results is interesting too. It puts results based on your search into more specific groups like "Draw Manga books', 'Draw Manga Hair', or 'Anime Style'.

I instantly took a dislike towards Hakia. Once you've submitted your search, the engine turns up the results and puts them into categories that make it hard for your eyes to handle. It puts the web results on the left side, images in the middle with news results and user generated content underneath, with sponsored links on the right side. It's just bad organization.

I don't like Quintura's link cloud that is always on the left side of the page.

Bing is my second favorite to Google. I've played around with it before. Again, it's a relatively clean search engine and I like the related searches and search history on the left side of the results.

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