The first search engine I ever used was 'Alta Vista' www.altavista.com It was actually the first contact I had with the internet. To be honest, for years after that, I had no idea there was any other option than Alta Vista. It was explained to me that it was a web service dedicated to narrowing your key word search into a list of helpful websites. This it did. I put in 'dog' and 301million possibilites were listed, the first being www.dogflat.com The order they are listed is a culmination of relevence to the key word/s, sponsorship to the search engine and after this, alphabetical order. The more specific your key words are, the greater the list is narrowed and the easier your search becomes.
I have to say, I am a google addict www.google.com . It's not to say that it is more superior to its counterparts, I've just used it so much it's second nature. After the alta vista spurt, I kept hearing about people being 'Googled' (that is, using their name as the key words and see the results). I tried it (to discover I am also a male eleven year old ADHD sufferer...) and stuck with it ever since. I was told Google had a much broader search sphere, but I couldn't really say there's a great deal of difference. Type 'dog' into Google and you get 262million sites. This could be considered negative and positive. While the actual sites aren't as vast (being the negative) this may mean that the process of narrowing down relevence to your subject is greater, the first option for Google under 'dog' is www.dog.com
Google has had some bad press over the last couple of weeks, so they are up to some damage control. The latest in news about this (in their own words) 'technology giant' visit www.tech.monstersandcritics.com/news/article_1305740_php/Google_reinvents_search_with_universal_launch
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