Google and other Search Engines

[AnnHenry]

While Google is a MAJOR search engine, it is not the ONLY search engine. See what happens when you Google "search engines" (111,000,000 --that\'s million entries!)

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&ie=UTF-8&rls=GGLG,GGLG:2005-31,GGLG:en&q=search+engines

No one Search Engine has everything, and while there will be many duplicates among several search engines, each search engine will usually pull up something that the others didn\'t. This is especially good to know when doing esoteric searches like genealogy, whereas we quilters can probably find everything we need on only one.

Unfortunately, Google does not include SpellCheck, and it will look for whatever is asked, however you spell it, and will usually find something. It searches websites for that particular word, and if someone has a created a website with that word misspelled, the search engine will find it. Finding something on a search engine does not guarantee the word is spelled correctly. Websites are created by ordinary people who may or may not be sticklers for spelling. If there are 1,000 websites with the misspelled word you are searching for, it will draw up all 1,000 websites. But using the correct spelling may draw up a million. When your initial search is not very fruitful, it is always a good idea to search using variations of spelling.

Other major search engines are Dogpile, Momma, Ask, Alta Vista, and Yahoo.