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Which Search Engine Should You Utilize?It's hard to call up mode dorsum when nosotros didn't have online search engines to find everything from ten Summer Beach Reads to Perfect Party Menus. Now, we rely on them every day for shopping, news, travel plans, and celebrity gossip & mdash; and let's face it, most of us merely "google it." But did you ever wonder if Yahoo!, and Bing might be better at turning up that long-lost college roommate or discontinued lipstick shade? Nosotros had our crackerjack interns, Alexandra Fretts of Syracuse University and Candice Reeves of State University of New York at Geneseo, research the benefits of each.

What They All Do:

  • Let you to narrow down your search based on categories such every bit Web, Images, Video, Shopping, News, and Maps
  • Offer "Advanced Search" options to further narrow down your search based on exact phrases, specific domains (significant .gov, .edu, .com, or .org), or even discover web pages in specific languages.

Google

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What we dear: its simple and uncluttered design, which makes it easy to navigate.

Special feature: Google Instant, which sees what you're typing and predicts what y'all're nigh likely to exist searching for before y'all even cease.

Bottom line: Google'southward regarded as the terminate-all-be-all of search engines, and information technology lived upwardly to its reputation by coming up with the about results for all searches (anywhere from three to twenty-3 more meg results than either Yahoo! or Bing). Google aims to provide "a fast, accurate, and easy-to-use service that anyone seeking data can access," and we found that information technology lived up to its claim!

Yahoo!

Great for: Yahoo!'s homepage offers tons of information including news and market place updates, as well every bit the most popular videos and what its users are "Trending Now."

What we love: the power to edit your homepage by listing your favorite Yahoo! sites. While yous can besides customize your Google dwelling page, we especially liked the fact that you accept quick access to Flickr and the Yahoo! Shine blogs. Naturally we're constantly checking the latest posts on Good Housekeeping's blog on Shine.

Bottom line: As a site with links to news updates, emailboxes, travel directories, shopping centers, jobs, dating sites, Flikr, sports, horoscopes, weather and much, much more than, Yahoo! is an endless spider web of information for its users.

Bing

Not bad for: planning your side by side vacationWhat nosotros love: the left-paw side bar that lists related searches and search history

Special features: a backdrop that changes daily-when logging on to do a search, you lot'll find anything from a picture of people parasailing on a embankment in Hawaii to panda bears munching away in bamboo copse. We besides love the Visual Search tool which lets yous search by images instead of text. It'due south swell for finding a auto you lot admired as it passed you on the road simply went by as well fast for you lot to grab its brand or model.

Bottom line: When nosotros searched "plan a trip to Disney," Bing gave the states flight information, websites geared toward planning Disney World trips, and even the weather in Orlando! Bing also has the strongest search algorithm, which provides its users with the nearly accurate and detailed results from any given search.