clipped from: www.businesshackers.com 1. SNAP
The reason why authors suggest using it is: 1) Snap gives you a visual preview of each result BEFORE you click on it…and that improves your odds of picking the right search, without clicking back-and-forth several times. 2) Snap incorporates user feedback in the form of post-search click-stream analysis, ranking search listings based on the successful outcomes of users who made the same queries. Our ‘Snap Rank’ algorithm orders its results by combining the best of algorithmic calculations with an understanding of human intentions, which greatly improves the quality and relevancy of results, and avoids the dead-ends that come from ’spammed’ results (See ‘How does Snap Rank work’, just below). 3) Snap gives you suggestions for your search BEFORE you actually submit your search…again improving your odds of finding what you’re looking for faster. Snap combines these innovations, making it easier and faster to get reliable outcomes from your searches.
2. Dogpile
Dogpile was built to give users the best search results available on the Web. This is accomplished by searching all the most popular engines and retrieving the best combined results.
The authors of the website report that:
“The inspiration for Dogpile came when its founders noticed that different search engines often return different results for the very same term. The more engines they searched the more results they found. Following this discovery, the founders set out to create a way to bring the Web’s best search engines together in one place to deliver more comprehensive and relevant results.
To capture this idea, the founders borrowed a sports term used to describe players piling on top of one another in the celebration and the Dogpile search engine was born!”