Thread: How to choose a search engine?

Seach engine performance is important to us,some time it responses slowly and display not what I want ! and how to choose a effective search engine?

1. Choose a search engine, directory or library in accordance with the kind of search you are doing and the kind of results you are seeking.

2. Consider: Are you looking for a Web site? Information that might be contained within Usenet? Academic articles that may only be retrievable with gopher?

3. Determine your aims: Do you want a specific hard-to-find document on an esoteric subject, or general information on a broader topic? Do you need to search the entire Web, or is what you are seeking likely to be found on a number of sites, or only the most popular sites?on an esoteric subject, or general information on a broader topic? Do you need to search the entire Web, or is what you are seeking likely to be found on a number of sites, or only the most popular sites?

4. In making your choice, determine whether the information you are looking for is likely to be in a page's title or first paragraph, or buried deeper within the document or site.

5. Use a search engine's advanced features, if available, and read the help files if you are unclear about its searching procedure.

Very informative list of tips but as for me I use Google simply because I comfortable using it and its part of every life.

Choose the search engine that is user friendly and fetches the appropriate results for the the user's keyword. The time taken to display the results should be comparatively low. The search engine should give realtime results and it should fetch images, videos, news and etc...that match to the user's search queries.

I need authoritative sites chosen by an expert researcher.

thanks friends to shared its nice information to all of us

Choose a search engine in accordance with the kind of search you are doing and the kind of results you are seeking.

Thanks for the valuable tips.

Search Engine should be chosen according to the region. It should also should be chosen according to the area. and traffic and the nature of audience and traffic desired.

Thanks friend,It is a nice tips.

Google is the best and effective search engine... if you want your search to be effective you must enter a proper search query and it will give you the accurate results in return. It totally depends on the type of query you enter... you must understand the search engine in the first place to make the best out of it.

Google is my favorite search engine

Nice posting,really very useful post.

Google is a best search engine.

I Always Chose Google Search Engine . I Also Suggest The others People For Google Search Engine .