The items listed below are the key things you should look for before joining Search Engine Websites. Pay close attention to these areas as they determine which sites are the best.
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Relevant / Accurate Results
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Look for search engines that provide relevant / accurate results for your searches. This is the most important feature for all search engines as finding what you are looking for quickly is what they are supposed to do. But sometimes, certain search queries result is a long list of irrelevant search results.
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Special Functionality Syntax
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Look for services that offer special search syntax for performing cool functions such as currency conversion, calculator functions, weather, etc. A lot of times these options are not well promoted within search engines but they are available and they make your life a lot easier.
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Relevant Results
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Relevant results are the most important things to look for when evaluating search engines. If you never get the results you want when using a search engine, you never go back. Look for relevancy with accuracy when evaluating search engines.
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Clear distinction between paid and natural search results
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The better search engines clearly separate the paid search results (those advertisements paid for by 3rd parties and not always relevant to your search) and the natural search results which are those that are not paid for and utilize the search technology of the search engine to provide relevant and accurate results. Look for search engines that clearly make the distinction between the two otherwise you will spend a lot of time clicking paid advertisements instead of relevant results.
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Different types of media/databases to search
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Search engines often gain access to directories of databases of unique information and allow users to search these directories for information. Look for search engines that allow access to these unique information pools such as the US patent office applications, database of digitized book pages, etc.
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