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Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines

Phil Bradley: Finding what you need with the best search engines
Which search engine when? Sometimes you’re not always going to be sure as to which search engine is best for the job. In this section I’ve tried to put together a collection of search engines which do specific things - find images, social media search and so on. Hopefully you’ll find one or two engines that do the job for you! Major types of search engine Keyword Search engines You know what you're looking for, and can describe it with some key words or phrases. Google is always a good bet, since it has the largest index Yahoo Search is the second most popular keyword search engine Bing may provide results if the other two don't work DuckDuckGo is generally seen as the major competitor outside the big 3 Exalead is a good choice and makes a change from the big 3 Index or Directory based search engines These search engines arrange data in hierachies from broad to narrow. The Open Directory Project provides access to 16 main categories Multi or Meta search engines Goofram for Google and Wolfram Alpha

Grokker - A New Way to Look at Search Google Powered Site Search with jQuery Martin Angelov By far one of the most requested features by Tutorialzine’s readers, is building a site-wide search. One way to do it, is to build it yourself from the ground up. That is, to use a server-side language like PHP and run search queries on your database, displaying the results to the user. Another way is to use the services of the one search engine that already knows everything about everyone. Yep, you guessed it. Important update (October 2014): Google has canceled the API that this search engine uses, so this script will no longer work. The HTML Lets start with the HTML markup. search.html <! In the body section, we have the main container element – the #page div. Inside the form is the text input box, after which comes the radio group for searching on the current site / the web, and the four search type icons, organized as an unordered list. Google Powered Site Search The CSS The CSS styles reside in styles.css. styles.css – Part 1 styles.css – Part 2 styles.css – Part 3

Buscador de Yahoo y portal de Internet - Yahoo! España Nosotros, Yahoo, somos parte de la familia de marcas de Yahoo. Al hacer clic en ‘Aceptar todo’, aceptas que Yahoo y nuestros socios procesarán tu información personal y utilizarán tecnologías como cookies para presentarte anuncios y contenido personalizados, evaluar anuncios y contenido, obtener datos clave sobre la audiencia y desarrollar productos. Información personal que podría utilizarse Información sobre tu dispositivo y conexión a Internet, como tu dirección IP Actividad de navegación y búsqueda al utilizar sitios web y aplicaciones de Yahoo Tu ubicación exacta Haz clic en ‘Gestionar ajustes’ para obtener más información y gestionar tus opciones. Puedes cambiar tus opciones en cualquier momento desde tus controles de privacidad.

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