Search Engine Shoot-OutPC World’s verdict: Google is indeed the best search engine, even though two other services [AlltheWeb – my personal favourite – and AltaVista, both owned by Yahoo] topped it–barely–in our text-search tests. Google’s index proved to be the most accurate, comprehensive, and timely of the bunch. It also bested the majority of the specialty-search sites we tried, meaning those that focus on a category or file type, such as videos, images, news, blogs, or local info delivered on a mobile phone.http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,130979/article.html
Search Engine Shoot-Out
PC World’s verdict: Google is indeed the best search engine, even though two other services [AlltheWeb – my personal favourite – and AltaVista, both owned by Yahoo] topped it–barely–in our text-search tests. Google’s index proved to be the most accurate, comprehensive, and timely of the bunch. It also bested the majority of the specialty-search sites we tried, meaning those that focus on a category or file type, such as videos, images, news, blogs, or local info delivered on a mobile phone.