1)This was an interesting exercise. My first search was “National Parks RVing”. All three columns came up close to the same but I felt that Bing had more reliable sites listed higher than the other two did. For my second search I searched “Free Keyboarding” something I showed a customer today. Again Bing had more educational sites which is where I prefer to send our customers rather than commercial sites that may start asking them question or suggesting they join. For my third search I looked for “Alternative Medicines”. Again Bing seemed to have more educational and government sites high on the list. Bing does bring up good resources and I plan to try it while at the Reference Desk for some searches. However,Google was not that far behind in rankings and as we will discuss later I prefer Google.
2) Hitwise showed Google.com as number one engine this week. In volume of searches it is far ahead of yahoo. Google has 72.5% while Yahoo only had 14.83%. I will continue to experiment with BING.
3) When looking at Bing, Yahoo, and Google I found that Bing has a nice layout and easy to look at as well as being easy to search on and an engine I could recommend it for most people but does not give me the extras that Google does. I address the extras farther down the page.
Yahoo is alright as a search engine but is too busy of a page for me to want to go there very often. When you log in there are too many options with cutesy icons and the news is “in my face”. When I am looking for something I don’t like all the stuff around.
Google is my choice of sites because it is not busy with icons or adds when I log on. Where Bing links to MSN (not my choice of sites) and Yahoo pushes the news in your face. Google allows you search to without being distracted by all the other stuff. There are links to images, videos, maps, news, shopping, and Gmail with a link for all the other amenities
that they offer if a person wanted more options.
Some of the options that I use are Google calendar, Gmail, documents, Picasa (photo editor). Also, I am the proud owner of a Google voice number which when I activate it will allow me to have it ring any or all of my phones, get voice mail as an email, send unwanted callers straight to voicemail, do conference calls, screen callers and much more. I have also been invited to be on Google Wave. With this people can communicate and work together on a document. Any invited participant can reply, edit, and add people to see and edit a specific document. Google Wave is live and all this can be done as quickly as your internet allows.
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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