Webupon

  We all have our own way of searching for the information and sites which we are looking for.  There are many search engines out there, but the top three, Google, Yahoo!, and Bing, are used to do a HUGE majority of all searches of the internet.  The web crawlers of these engines are trusted by more people to gather information about the things that are most important to the users of the internet than all others.  Actually, Google is used by more than 70% of all searches.  Yahoo and Bing are used more than 80% of the time which Google isn’t used.  Obviously, these three search engines are the most important to the users of the internet.

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First of all, we will discuss Google.  “Google it” has become one of the most used phrases to answer someone when they have an information question about nearly anything.  You never hear someone say, “Yahoo it,” or “Bing it.”  First of all, they don’t ring in the ears as well as “Google it” and before the advent of Bing, there was undoubtedly no better way than Google to search for the information one needed.  Their “web crawlers” are supposedly the best at finding and indexing information on the web.  Keyword tracking programs they use to look for new information has also been the best out there.  The problem with a search engine like Google is that a start-up on the web may have to wait months and months to get indexed by Google unless they use sneaky keyword tactics or pay for the submission process.  The engine is sooo busy that there is little room for anyone new to the internet to break in and become well know with out a ton of hard work and hundreds, even thousands of hours parading your information to the masses of the social networks such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Redditt, Digg, and Stumbleupon.

  Next, I will discuss Yahoo.  Yahoo is the second most used search engine, although only making up about 17% of all searches done on the internet.  Also, I’ve been told that Yahoo’s search engine was the basis of design for Google’s engine.  So why would Google prevail if Yahoo was the founding basis of the two’s design theories?  I would say that “Google it” sounds better when one wants to find something they are looking for.  Yahoo simply didn’t have the catch phrase that made people want to use it like they would to use Google.  “Yahoooooo-oo!”  just doesn’t stack up against “Google it.”  Yahoo’s search engine design kept them at the top, but Google’s apps hoisted them up to the pedestal where they have reigned ever since.

  Now there is a new player, well, a redesigned, renamed player in the biz.  Bing.  Sounds like an idea just popped into your head…BING!  This new design has a few neat features to add to the search scene.  First, you will notice the little balloon that pops up to the right when you scroll over the headline of the index line you are looking at.  This is kind of nice, but also can very annoying.  You think you are going to get a little bit more of the site in this balloon, but you might be getting a comment or something that seems completely irrelevant to the site which you are researching.  I am sure the bugs will be worked out soon, but for now I am on the fence with the new-fangled feature.  Bing also is supposed to be a “decision engine” as for now I no intention on letting a search engine make my decisions for me.  I like the fact that what is available to me makes up the choices I have.  I do not want a computer program learning my behavior and telling me what to see.  Stumbleupon has already taken up that spot and I use it only to find new stuff that is cool, not to make my decisions for me. 

  All in all, I use Yahoo and Google to find the things I want and have recently become a Wikipedia user.  The rest pale in comparison to these.  That is my opinion, but most of the rest of the world agrees.  The good thing with our world here in the U.S. is that you can decide for yourself!  Yahooooo!