Thursday, June 12, 2008

The Invisible Web


Who could believe there are "spiders" crawling around the web consolidating information? Better there, than the usual places they show up and surprise me. So many search engines, what's a girl (url?) to do? I've loved the ease of Google and also that they fly in the face of Microsoft. Granted they aren't the little guys anymore, but they've retained some of the spirit.


Surprises with the alternates? I liked that Dogpile used "go fetch" rather than the standard "search" and also that they included a "Joke of the Day!" What really surprises me is my returning again and again to Del.icio.us and Flikr to search. I've been looking to buy a hammock for my daughter who is employed by a rafting company in Utah. It's been quite interesting to see what the various search engines have came up with. I even found directions on how to make my own, complete with step-by-step illustrations.

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