Google

Google is the number one most used search engine. Much more than a search engine, Google has spawned a whole culture unto it's self. Googlism have been coined. Also Google Stalking, where you use Google to keep tabs on old flames or find old friends you haven't heard from in a while. Recently the idea that Google has been stalking everyone else has come up. Do you think your privacy has been compromised by search engine data being stored?

Google also has many useful features. You can also look for the links that a site has by adding link: then the web site address.

Google also has the Advanced Search page which allows for a very powerful search definition method. Google also supports Advanced Operators like link: which are query words with special meaning to Google. The most useful of the operators is the site: operator. By adding site: to your search you can have Google check a whole domain for information you are looking for. As an example, search site: ewebdesigns.ca Google .

BING

BING is currently the number 2 hit site on the web. Content is much like Yahoo except it is supplied by Microsoft. One of the nice things about BING is that the user base is mostly inexperienced web users who have not changed their default browser from when they installed Windows. Like Yahoo, BING has free email, the famous Hotmail, like Yahoo, BING has Video, Maps etc. The big difference is that Bing does not get it's search content from Google, it spiders the web on it's won and has it's own search content, a refreshing change from the other big two, Yahoo and Google.

Yahoo

Yahoo is consistently in the top 10 sites on the web. Currently Yahoo's search results are provided by the Google engine, though this may someday change. As far as content sites go, Yahoo has a huge amount of content on the web, from personals offered by Match.com to a movie database, current news as well as news content and Yahoo also offers free email.

There are two ways of getting onto the Yahoo search engine. One is to do well at Google searches by applying proper White Hat SEO or by getting a Yahoo Business listing.