25, September, 2012
Volume I, Issue 4
Part 4
20 of the Best Search Engines for Students
What is a search engine?
Search engines are programs that search documents for specified keywords and return a list of the documents where the keywords were found. A search engine is really a general class of programs; however, the term is often used to specifically describe systems like Google, Bing and Yahoo! Search that enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web.
Media Search Engines (Audio, Videos and Photos)
Radio-Locator - Radio-Locator is the largest radio station search engine. You can use it to locate over 10,000 radio station websites and over 2,500 audio streams.
Blinkx - Users can search more than 32 million hours of video on Blinkx by keyword or category.
Pixsy - Pixsy is a visual search engine that pulls video and photos from sources like You Tube, Flickr, iStock and more. Clicking on a result will take you to its source page, which can make it easier to find images and video that are available for reuse.
Retrievr - Retrievr is another visual search engine, but with a twist - it allows you to upload an image or make a sketch, then retrieves matching images from Flickr.
Picsearch - This image search engine puts 3,000,000,000 pictures at your fingertips.
Social Search Engines
Wink - Wink is the world's largest people search engine. When you use it to search for people, you can get addresses, phone numbers, websites and other contact information.
iSearch - You can use this search engine to search for people by name, phone number, email address and screen name.
Pipl - Pipl's query engine searches personal profiles, member directories, court records and public records to find information about people. It also now offers a business search option.
Source: http://education-portal.com/articles/20_of_the_Best_Search_Engines_for_Students.html
