• AskJeeves: It has made many significant improvements and is vastly improved over what it was several years ago. The search results page shows a number of very useful links to help expand or narrow the search. Their cached page carry a date and time that the page was cached—a very useful feature. One complaint about AskJeeves has been the large number of ads on their pages, but they have recently decreased the number.
• MSN: It shows you the time of caching (date only). A useful feature is free access to the Encarta encyclopedia. In common with some other engines, MSN has a Virtual Earth page for displaying maps. A “Site Builder” button allows the user to choose advanced features and have the command automatically added to the search box, which is good for people (like me!) who never can remember the syntax of many of these features.
• Yahoo!: Cache pages have a link to the Wayback Machine. Tabs on the search page allow the user to see many “verticals” or related searches. A limited amount of content from subscription databases is available in search results. Yahoo! now has a page to search blogs and also link to Flickr images. Yahoo! Mindset allows sliders to be set to control the importance of various characteristics of products when shopping. And results can now be sent to a cell phone, indicating Yahoo!’s recognition of the growing importance of mobile computing.
• Google: Stock prices appear, if they’re available on results pages for company searches. Google says it has a blog search capability, but they are really searching RSS feeds, not the entire content of blogs.
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