Search Beyond Google

Posted by Kenneth Ronkowitz on

It's getting to the point that when you say search, people think Google. Maybe you also use Bing or Yahoo, but there are also other search engines.

David Kapuler a K-12 media and technology specialist, made a list of search engines useful for educators. I will admit to never having used or heard of any of them. But they really do take different approaches to search - tag clouds, visual search etc.

For example, I typed in my own name into the Oamos search engine and got a screen full of my life online in several acts. Quite interesting. Even a bit scary in what it was able to piece together from my online droppings.

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