Thursday, August 14, 2008

search engines

I was actually interested to see the differences between search engines. I tend to use Google because that's at the top of the screen, so it's easy and fast. I decided to search for info on May Sarton---an author I've enjoyed, but who, I thought, might be obscure enough to provide a good comparison. So---Google came up with pages and pages and pages, but little of value. A few listings about her, but mostly listings for Amazon.com and other bookstores, as well as the full ads on the side of the page. Yahoo! was only marginally more informative, but I hit the jackpot with Rollyo. Just typing in her name, with no selection of sites to search, brought me scholarly reviews of her writing, and a couple of lengthy biographies. If I'd been writing a paper about her, Rollyo was definitely the site where I'd begin.

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