Runet is a place where you can find almost everything. But only if you use the right search engine. There are already a dozen of the latter on the Russian part of the Internet today, but some of them are used by almost all users, while others are used by only a small percentage. This is due both to the characteristics of the search engines themselves and to the established opinion that Yandex and Goggle are cool, and the rest are just trying to keep up with them.
Do you know who invented Yandex and Goggle? Here .
What is a search engine
A search engine is a service that searches for information on the World Wide Web based on a given user search query. In order to find this very information, you need to open the search engine website and formulate a request. It is not necessary to write entire sentences in the search bar. Search engines today are already so “smart” that they can understand a user’s request literally at a glance.
In the modern world there is practically no person who has not searched for something on the World Wide Web at least once in his life. Search engines, with the help of which we carry out searches, have already become firmly established in our lives - we “Google” the titles of films and books, the names and addresses of people, culinary recipes and student works.
It’s hard to imagine how difficult it would have been for us if there were no Yandex, Google, Mail and other information retrieval systems. You would have to write down the names of sites or even select them from a set of characters. But despite the fact that search engines are an integral part Everyday life modern man, few people think about how they work and how they appeared.
History of search engines
Surprisingly, the history of search engines dates back to 1945. It was then that the American scientist Vaniver Bush first introduced the idea of hypertext in one of his articles. Subsequently, he also participated in the creation of the first prototype of the search engine, but the main work was still done by other people.
In 1969, scientists from one of the agencies working on research projects The United States created a concept that allows information to be transmitted using a computer network. They wanted to use this development for military purposes, but it turned out that the connection was too weak and information leakage could occur. Work on the concept stopped, but was resumed again in 1980. This time it was possible to unite the information library of US universities using computer networks.
The first real prototype of modern search engines appeared in the mid-1990s, when directories of sites were created that could be searched. There were also search engine bots, but they could no longer cope with their responsibilities after the development of the Internet and the emergence of a large number of sites.
Since 1995, modern search engines began their work on the World Wide Web - Yahoo, Google, Yandex and others.
How search engines work
The process of finding information on the Internet by a search engine consists of three stages:
- Studying all sites - scanning;
- Indexing;
- Ranging
At the first stage, the search engine wanders around the World Wide Web, studying the contents of each site. Considering how many sites are present on the Internet and how much information is presented on them, one can only guess at what speed the scanning occurs. After all, the result must be returned immediately after the user’s request.
Search engines are scanned by special robots. They are also called spiders. They go to every site on the Internet and enter information from them into their database. On old sites this is done periodically, but exactly how many times a month is decided by the search engines themselves. When a new site appears, robots quickly scan all its content and take all this information for themselves. Then everything happens exactly the same as on other sites.
At the second stage, the process of entering the found information into the database occurs. Here also every search system works in its own way. For example, Goggle takes all the information found on the site, and Yandex only takes the part that seems useful to it. Search engines then classify the data into topics to make it easier to work with later.
At the third stage, sites are arranged in order, depending on how much the information on them coincides with the user’s search query.
The number of search engine users is growing every day, which means the popularity of the search engines themselves is growing. Perhaps very soon the positions of services will change, they will begin to work in a different way or disappear altogether. A ordinary users All that remains is to adapt to them.
So, here are the most common Runet search engines.
Yandex: history of origin
How to use Google search
The work of Goggle is almost similar to the work of Yandex. Here, too, to find the necessary information, it is enough to enter a written request to required language into the search bar. You can also set a voice command. To do this, just click on the microphone icon and make a search request.
The search engine will help you find not only sites with text information, but also the necessary pictures, videos or news. To do this, you need to ask a query and then select the appropriate section at the bottom of the search bar.
Search engine Mail
– the largest Internet portal on the Runet, combining several services. One of them is the Mail search engine, which appeared relatively recently - in 2003. This project was launched with the intention of making it as successful as mail.ru, Odnoklassniki or Agent. For this, the developments of Google WebSearch were used, the service was integrated with List.mail.ru, but still the search engine did not become as popular as, for example, Yandex.
Despite this, mail.ru has its own characteristics that distinguish it from other similar services. Thus, the search is carried out not only throughout the Internet, but also in the Mail services themselves. The search system can also distinguish between the titles of films and books, remember previous user requests, and provide information on similar requests. In the future, we will create a special service for webmasters, where it will be possible to receive information about:
- queries of interest to search engine users;
- visited pages;
- downloaded files;
- cache of visited pages;
- ranking of sites by traffic.
Currently, the Mail search engine ranks 3rd in popularity on the RuNet and processes almost 6% of all Internet requests in the Russian Federation.
How to use Mail search
Unlike Google and Yandex, the Mail search bar is located at the top of the main page. But the search algorithm is the same. To find information, just enter a query and click the magnifying glass icon. The Mail sections are similar to the main search engines of the Runet. Here you can also find pictures and videos, but in addition, “applications” and “answers” are available. By selecting the first section, you can use numerous service tools. The second will allow you to find information in Mail.Answers.
And in this article I wrote about services in great detail.
Search engine Rambler
Rambler- the very first search engine of the Runet and a huge information space. Its history began in 1991. At that time, the Internet as such was just beginning to emerge in Russia and was used only in large organizations. These organizations included institutes of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and one of them began to use a local network to transfer data between employees. Later the network was connected to the Internet.
After five years of successful network-based use under Russian programmer Dmitry Kryukov created a search engine called Rambler, which means “wanderer”. This name fully reflects the essence of not only this search engine, but also all others.
Now, 16 years later, Rambler exists as a system with a variety of tools - games, weather, news, goods, maps, etc. It accounts for 0.4% of Runet search queries.
The service underwent the most significant changes in 2012: the design changed, and news was displayed by default. But almost immediately after this, the management decided to enter into an agreement with Yandex and move on to searching for it. That is, now requests from Rambler are processed and issued by Yandex, and the service itself works on the basis of its other tools.
How to use Rambler search
Searching in Rambler is no different from searching in other similar services. The user enters a command in the search bar and after clicking “find” the results are displayed. In addition to text information, you can also find pictures here.
Other Runet search engines
Search engine Nigma
Nigma is the most intelligent search engine created by programmers Viktor Lavrenko and Vladimir Chernyshov in 2004. It differs from other similar services in that it uses not only its own search algorithm, but also data from other search engines. Nygma also allows you to use filters to quickly find the information you need.
Here you can separately search for movies, music, pictures, links, and even tools that help students with homework. The filtering function is called clustering. Initially, Nygma was conceived precisely as a smart search engine that saves time. This is why filters were created.
Despite all the features of Nigma, it is not as popular as Yandex, Google, Mail and even Rambler. It accounts for only 0.1% of all queries in search engines. Perhaps this is why the Nigma.rf website has become unavailable for use since September 2017, but there have been no official announcements about the closure of the project.
Search engine Sputnik
Satellite is the Russian official search engine that appeared on the market in 2014. Its creator is the Rostelecom company.
The history of Sputnik began back in 2010, when the Russian Government announced the need to create a national search system. The reason for this was the impossibility of controlling existing search engines, since they are not state-owned. In 2011, President Dmitry Medvedev supported the idea, and already in 2013 the project had a name and was preparing to launch. On May 22, it was launched in beta testing mode.
In addition to searching for information, Sputnik offers services such as “Weather”, “Medicine”, “TV program”, “Maps”, “Finance”, “Poster”, etc. But despite this, Internet users did not accept the search engine with much enthusiasm, and in 2017 the project was declared a failure.
How to use Sputnik search
Another Russian search engine, Sputnik, has a simple and user-friendly interface. To search for information in it, just enter a query in the search bar and click the “find” button. The only way this service differs fundamentally from similar ones is the quality of the result. That is, Sputnik will not provide as many search results as other, more popular ones.
Search engine Aport
I found a time when we were actively using it. I liked him. Aport as a search engine, it was created in 1996 by Agama, one of the leaders in software development. Initially, the service searched only one site, but over time there were more of them, and then the search became possible throughout the entire Runet.
Until 2000, Aport occupied high positions in the RuNet along with Yandex and Google. The developers changed the design several times, introduced other tools besides search, but still it began to lose ground.
In 2011, Aport entered into an agreement with Yandex and switched to its engine. Since that time, the search engine has ceased to exist as a familiar one to users. Now this is a service for searching prices for various goods and comparing them with those in other stores.
How to use Aport
Aport is a search engine, but it only finds products with prices. To do this, you need to select the desired product from the catalog, and the service will show prices for it in various stores. Then you can go to a store with a better price and buy the item you need.
The service features many sections with a wide variety of products. Thanks to it you can save a lot of money.
Bing search engine
Bing- a search engine from Microsoft, which became the company’s third such project and the most successful. Microsoft management has long dreamed of creating its own search system, and the dream first became a reality in 1998, when the MSN Search project appeared on the market. But the idea was not at all met with enthusiasm by Internet users. And it’s not surprising, since the search engine was nothing worthwhile.
In 2006, Windows Live Search appeared, a year later it was replaced by Live Search, but both were also not successful with users.
Finally, in 2009, Microsoft announced a new service – Bing. Despite the failures of its predecessors, the search engine earned itself fans in a short time. Within a year, it was equal to Yahoo in terms of the number of users, which is an amazing phenomenon in itself, and a little later it entered the list of the best search engines in the world.
Bing is much less popular on the RuNet than on the entire World Wide Web. The main reason for this is that the search engine displays very few Russian-language sites. In addition, in RuNet it is almost impossible to move those search engines that have become established.
In addition to the most popular, there are also a large number of search engines that are little known, but are still used by some users. Thus, in China, more than 60% of search queries are processed by the Baidu search engine.
Bing has a good panel for webmasters. Be sure to add your site there.
How to use Bing
Searching in Bing is as convenient as searching in most other search engines. To find a site with text information, an image, video or news here, just enter the corresponding query in the search bar. The search engine finds information both on Russian and foreign sites.
The main difference between Bing and other services with similar functionality is its beautifully designed interface. Unlike Google, a colorful background is installed by default.
Comparison of popular Runet search engines: where to look for what
Search engines are better the more accurate information they can provide in response to a user's request. Today the most popular system on the Internet is Google, and on the RuNet - Yandex. If we judge by the quality of the results, then they have approximately the same quality, but still it is easier to find about something in Goggle, about something in Yandex. The same goes for other search engines. Each of them is focused on a specific category of users and requests.
The task of all search engines is to find information, but each of them does it in its own way. Everyone has their own search algorithm and their own characteristics. Let's take Yandex for example. You can find almost everything here, but it is more focused on Russian-language sites. That is, if you are looking for information in Russian about a Russian writer, you definitely don’t need another source. But if you need an article in English, you should turn to Goggle or Bing. The same can be said about foreign videos and news. There are plenty of them in the sections of these search engines with the same name.
The satellite is also aimed at Russian-speaking users and here you are unlikely to find much information in foreign languages. Most likely, the results will contain something similar to the information you are looking for, but in Russian.
Mail and Rambler are similar in terms of results on Yandex, but it will be possible to find here something that is not in the main Runet search engine in very rare cases. At the same time, Mail can be used to search in the Answers service, where the necessary information is often found.
Aport is a specific search engine and is designed to search for goods. Therefore, if you intend to go shopping and are looking for great deals, this service will definitely help you. By comparing prices in popular online stores, you can find the best options.
What search engine do you use?
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Most of the time a user spends on the Internet is spent searching for information that interests him. At the same time, there are many ways to obtain this data - you can look into an online encyclopedia and try to find the answer there, you can subscribe to a newsletter on a topic of interest and carefully study incoming correspondence, or you can consult with competent people on the forum by asking them a question. But the most universal way to find something on the Internet is to use one of the many search engines. Services for searching millions and millions of websites are, perhaps, the fundamental link of the World Wide Web. Without Google, Yahoo, Yandex and many other search engines familiar today, a user’s stay on the Internet would be more like a blind man walking through the forest. The importance of search engines for working on the Internet can hardly be overestimated - for many users, start pages the addresses of search engines are indicated, and it is from them that for many people an endless journey through various network resources begins. However, the effectiveness of Internet excavations is different for everyone - one person finds information instantly, another takes a lot of time, and a third may not find anything useful for himself at all. What is the reason? The answer is simple: searching on the Internet is akin to fishing - you need to know where to fish and what to fish for, i.e. where to look and how to look. In today's article we will talk about the best way to search on the Internet, and tell you what search engines exist for this, besides those that are “on everyone’s lips.”
However, we will start with those systems that you know. If a user knows the address of a search engine, this does not mean that he knows how to use it. Let's check how well you understand search query technology. How accurate the results you will get, first of all, depends on how skillfully you formed the search query. For example, if you are looking for information to write course work, there is no need to introduce its topic verbatim, especially if the work has a narrow specialization. You will find much more valuable information if you try to select keywords, that is, those words that will definitely appear in your work. If you are looking for a lost manual for a car radio, then by entering the model number, you will probably get a huge number of sites offering to purchase it. To weed out unnecessary links, you can use the search function in the found or exclude some words from the search. In almost every search engine you will find an advanced search function. This is another good way to filter out unnecessary results. Among such functions, it may be useful to search for pages that have been recently updated, search for pages only on specific language or on sites located in the domain zone you specified. The time spent searching can be significantly saved if you know and use the query language syntax. Each search engine has its own characteristics. For example, when you are looking for something on Yandex, it would be a good idea to use the following techniques:
- To search for words that should appear on the page in one sentence, put the & symbol between them
- To exclude a specific word from search results, add it to your query by prefixing it with ~~
- To find pages that contain at least one of the words specified in the search query, separate them with |
- To search for a word in the specified form, put an exclamation mark in front of it
- To search for information on a specific site (and only on it), enter its address in the query field, preceded by the word site and a colon (for example, site:http://www.site)
- To search for a phrase that should appear on the page in its entirety, put it in quotation marks
- To exclude pages that contain a specific word from search results, add it to your query by placing a minus sign in front of it
FindSounds.com - searches for sounds
This resource is intended for those users who are in creative search. The resource allows you to search for sound files of different formats - wav, mp3, aiff, au. The resource database contains a wide variety of sounds - animal screams, grinding cars, ringing, knocking, sirens, buzzing insects, the roar of explosions and gunfire, splashing water, etc. Sound files can be searched by various criteria, for example, by size, the presence of two or one sound channels (stereo/mono), sampling frequency and sound bit depth. In the search results, the resource shows not only links to the found files, but also their main characteristics, and also shows a graph of the sound amplitude, which can be used to judge the nature of the sound of a given sample.The FindSounds sound effects database can be used in a variety of areas - from the development of computer games and other applications, to the creation of presentations and all kinds of clips. The search engine can be useful, for example, for those who create interactive web graphics and want to add variety to the site by accompanying the clicking of page navigation elements with different sounds.
Gnod.net - will select music, books and films to suit your tastes
When a person has a desire to read a new book, listen to some new music or watch a movie, he usually turns to his friend or acquaintance for advice, who has authority in his eyes. However, finding someone who would agree to express their opinion on this issue is not so easy. Firstly, not everyone likes to give advice, because when recommending something to another, a person takes on a share of responsibility, and many are stopped by the question “What if he doesn’t like the film that I recommend?” Secondly, the person who gives advice must understand what exactly the interlocutor will like, and what will be completely uninteresting. After all, the color and taste, as they say... But there is an easier way to get good advice- use a special search engine that is made specifically for this purpose. So you wanted to listen new group, but there is no time and desire to look for good music. The gnod.net resource will ask you for several names of musical artists that you like, analyze the results and offer your own version of a singer or group that you should also like. The service has several databases - on music artists, films, books and people. Thus, the resource includes four services: Gnod Music, Gnod Books, Gnod Movies and Flork. Latest service, Flork is social experiment by discovering people who are interested in communicating with each other. We were happy to test the music section of this service and introduced three artists - Gerry and the Pacemakers, The Beatles and Hollies. Our selection was not random - these three groups belong to the era of the sixties, to interesting phenomenon, which is called the British Invasion. All these bands played a beat, and the search engine had to suggest a band or artist in the same style. And so it happened. The result offered to us is the group Archies, which in the late sixties was on the lips of all Americans with their cheerful song Sugar Sugar. After playing with the search engine for some time, we came to the conclusion that gnod.net often gives correct advice and is not mistaken very often. For clarity, the search engine can provide the results of its “advice” in the form of an animated cloud with the names of groups, authors or films. The database can be replenished independently by having “conversations” with the search engine and answering its questions in the style of “I like this” or “I don’t like this.”Alldll.net - finds library files
We recommend that you immediately bookmark this search engine, as sooner or later it will definitely come in handy. Probably everyone has at least once encountered the problem of a missing dll library in their system. This usually results in programs or games refusing to launch, and the message “Couldn't find *****.dll” appear on the screen." There can be many reasons for this, for example, the absence of a file may be caused by incorrect removal of a previously installed application , accidental file corruption, etc. In addition, the developer could simply not include this library in the distribution of his product.Correcting the situation is very simple - just find the missing file on the Internet, download it and copy it to the directory of the program that refuses to start, or to the ..WINDOWSsystem32... folder. You can find and download the missing file easily and quickly using this service. The resource www.alldll.net is a search database for the most popular libraries dll. The files are sorted alphabetically and there is a search function. You can search for the file you are looking for even if you only know the approximate name of the library. It is enough to start entering text in the request field, and at the bottom of the page a huge list of files will appear that begin with the letters that were typed.
Medpoisk.ru - search for medical information
Despite the fact that this search engine uses the search engine from Google, this in no way reduces its value. Medpoisk.ru is a universal search engine that is designed to search exclusively on medical sites. This site is an excellent tool for every physician and anyone who wants to get an answer to any question in the field of medicine. How to treat this or that disease, what are the contraindications for this or that medicine, which doctor to see - all this and much more can be found out by “asking” a search engine. The search engine includes a labor exchange and can be used to search for work among medical professionals. The resource also contains a catalog of medical institutions sorted by region. Among these institutions are the addresses of clinics, medical centers various areas, maternity hospitals, diagnostic centers, beauty salons, etc. We sincerely wish you to use this search service solely out of curiosity, and not out of necessity.Taggalaxy.de - search for images and photos
Perhaps you have heard about the popular image sharing service Flickr.com? This is the same service that was blocked by the Chinese authorities in 2007 after photographs of the sad events of 1989 in Tiananmen Square, located in the Chinese capital Beijing, appeared on its pages. Flickr.com is one of the first Web 2.0 services, and the number of images uploaded by users is in the billions. The number of pictures uploaded to the servers of this service is so large that in order to find a specific image in this ocean of photographs and paintings, a separate search engine is needed. The service offers an image search service, but there is a more interesting way to search for images - using the unusual search engine taggalaxy.de. This search service is a tool for searching images on Flickr.com, with previews. What makes it unusual is the search interface, which is completely three-dimensional. The process of searching by keyword is reminiscent of some kind of computer game - different celestial bodies fly in outer space, between which you can move in the virtual world.After the keyword query is completed, a system of the sun and planets that revolve around the star will appear on the screen. Each celestial body has its own purpose and is “signed” with a word. In the center of the galaxy is the sun, the key query, all other bodies are auxiliary words, clarifications. If you click on the sun, this object will come closer, and photographs will fly towards it from all sides and surround it, the content of which is determined by the search query. This three-dimensional model with photographs can be rotated in virtual space, examining in detail and searching for the image of interest. After this, just click on the picture to enlarge it in size, and then you can better examine it and read the description.
While working with this search engine, you can use the scrolling function - it allows you to zoom in or out of three-dimensional planets. The remaining planets that are visible in the search engine interface after the request are auxiliary words that allow you to clarify the request. For example, if you enter “Sky” into the search field, then among the qualifying words-planets there will be the words “clouds”, “sunset”, “blue” and other tags of similar meaning that users specified when using the Flickr.com service. The disadvantage of the search engine is that taggalaxy.de does not support the Russian language, so queries can only be entered in Latin.
Nigma.ru - filters results from other search engines
Among all the search engines that can be found on the Internet, there is special group search engines. It differs from all others in that they implement a multi-search function, that is, simultaneous search in several search engines. One of these multi-search systems is the Russian service Nigma.ru.Nigma contains its own resource base, but in addition it allows you to search immediately across all the most popular search engines, including Google, MSN, Yandex, Rambler, AltaVista, Yahoo and Aport. The mechanism for selecting results in this search engine differs from most accepted methods of site discovery. The fact is that the engine of this service uses clustering of results. What does this mean? Imagine that you decide to find out for yourself what “rendering” is. Having compared the results in different search engines, the Nigma.ru engine selected the most likely results and, at the same time, on the left side of the window, next to the list of search results, displayed the so-called clusters - “visualization”, “creation”, “system”, “rendering”, “process”, “studio max”, “computer graphics” and other words and phrases. These clusters represent a thematic group of found documents. This way, you can quickly narrow your search or specify your search query. In Nigma.ru, you can also use categories to limit the area from which results will be selected - for example, perform a search only taking into account music resources, or display results only for images. Another opportunity of this service may be of interest to schoolchildren and students. Nigma.ru offers the services Nigma-mathematics and Nigma-chemistry. The first is designed for quickly solving simple equations and various arithmetic operations, the second allows you to work with formulas chemical reactions. The search service recognizes more than a thousand physical, mathematical constants and units of measurement, allowing you to quickly convert from one dimension to another.
Searchme.com - search engine with preview
Everyone knows that in order to find specific information on the Internet, you need to spend a lot of time. When viewing search results, the user basically opens resources at random, not knowing for sure whether he will find what interests him on the new page, or whether it will be a waste of time. The creators of the search service searchme.com thought about this problem and came up with an original solution. The essence of this solution was to create a search engine in which the user could look at a rough thumbnail of the page before it loaded. This would allow us to form an additional opinion about the seriousness of the resource and its content.The implementation of this idea was simply magnificent - the created search engine has a beautiful animated three-dimensional interface and shows search results in the form of an animated ribbon of thumbnails, thumbnail screenshots of web pages that include the search keyword. The tape with the results, like a film with old negatives, can be scrolled in the browser window using a special slider located under the string of images. The sketches are loaded instantly, so there are no delays in drawing the results. It is especially convenient to work with search results in full screen mode- then it is quite possible to make out even the text of the articles on the sketches of the results. To appreciate the convenience of this system, just try browsing news resources. Photos for the main news on the title page of the web publication will immediately make it clear which news on this resource is considered the most important.
The solution is a specialized torrent search engine. There are a lot of sites on the Internet that search for torrent resources. However, torrent-finder.com has an undeniable advantage over other search engines - this service allows you to search for files on a huge number of trackers simultaneously.
The best Internet search engines. Internet search engine – These are special search programs installed on a whole range of specialized machines. In simple terms, it’s the same website with a set of programs, only on a special search engine (server). It is with the help of search engines that you find all the information you need. There are a lot of search engines.
1. What is an Internet search engine
2. Popular search engines in our country
3. Popular search engines abroad
4. Unusual search engines
5. How to properly search for information on the Internet
The most best psearch systems in our country:
http://www.yandex.ru
http://www.google.com
http://www.aport.ru
http://www.rambler.ru/
http://go.mail.ru
http://www.webalta.ru/
The most unloved and intrusive search engine by all.
Popular search engines abroad
http://www.altavista.com
http://www.alltheweb.com
http://www. bing.com
http://www.google.com
http://www.excite.com
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.mamma.com
http://www.yahoo.com
http://www.dmoz.com
http://www.hotbot.com
http://www.dogpile.com
http://www.netscape.com
http://www.msn.com
http://www.webcrawler.com
http://www.jayde.com
http://www.aol.com
http://www.euroseek.com
http://www.teoma.com
http://www.about.com
http://www.ixquick.com
http://www.lookle.com
http://www.metaeureka.com
http://www.searchspot.com
http://www.slider.com
http://www.allthesites.com
http://www.clickey.com
http://www.galaxy.com
http://brainysearch.com
http://www.orura.com
Each country has its own popular search engines.
Unusual search engines
- DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com/) - a hybrid search engine with a privacy policy for the user and his search queries.
- TinEye (http://tineye.com/) is a search engine specializing in searching images on the Internet. It has recently lost its relevance after Google introduced the same function in its image search.
- Guenon (http://www.genon.ru/) is a search engine that collects and creates content on its website.
In almost every search engine, in addition to the search box, there are links to the most popular news sites, and sites of certain subjects.
How to properly search for information on the Internet
Each search engine has its own algorithms (rules) for searching for information.
In order to find some information on the Internet through a search engine, you need to enter in the search field request. If you enter one word, then this request will give you thousands of links to sites where this word is mentioned.
Therefore, it is necessary to enter as specific a query as possible, consisting of two, three or more phrases.
Let's look at an example of a search engine query Yandex.
Let's say you want to find information on buying a computer. If you write one word in the search box “ Computer", then you will get 133 million answers
You need to ask a more specific request. It is better to indicate which computer you want to buy and where (in which city).
Then the search engine will give you much fewer answers to your query.
The search engine doesn’t care at all whether you enter your query in capital or small letters.
Yandex distinguishes between nouns and adjectives, but completely ignores endings.
Also, he is completely indifferent to cases, plural etc.
To make the search more accurate, you need to put the query in quotation marks or put an exclamation point in front of the word.
Now look at the same query, but without the exclamation marks.
Do you see the difference? With exclamation marks, the number of responses is not 2 million, but 186 thousand.
If you put an exclamation point before the word with capital letter, then you will be given answers in which this particular word appears with a capital letter.
If the word is in nominative case, and you need information on exactly this word, and exactly the way you wrote it, then put two exclamation marks in front of this word. For example: !!Ball .
The search will give you answers for exactly this word " Ball" the way you wrote it. Not " ball", Not " balls", and with a capital letter.
If you write a phrase with the word " on", then Yandex will ignore " on" For example: " on the shelf" The search will only be performed using the word " shelf ».
In order for him to take it into account and not ignore it, it is necessary before the word “ on» put a plus sign – « +on ».
Each search engine has its own search algorithm, so if you use a specific search engine and want to learn how to correctly compose queries, then you just need to type “ search rules inGoogle " or " search rules in Yandex ", follow the link to the response to your request and read the necessary information.
A search engine is a database of specific information on the Internet. Many users believe that as soon as they enter a query into a search engine, the entire Internet is immediately crawled, but this is not at all true. The Internet is scanned constantly, by many programs, data about sites is entered into a database, where, according to certain criteria, all sites and all their pages are distributed into various types of lists and databases. That is, it is a kind of file cabinet of data, and the search takes place not on the Internet, but on this file cabinet.
Google is the most popular search engine in the world.
In addition to the search engine, Google offers many additional services, programs and hardware, including an email service, Google Chrome browser, the largest YouTube video library and many other projects. Google is confidently buying up many projects that bring large profits. Most of the services are not aimed at the direct user, but at making money on the Internet and are integrated with a focus on the interests of European and American users.
Mail is a search engine that is popular mainly because of its email service.
There are many additional services, the key of which is Mail, at the moment the Mail company owns the social network Odnoklassniki, its own network “My World”, the Money-mail service, many online games, three almost identical browsers with different names. All applications and services contain a lot of advertising content. The social network VKonatkte blocks direct transitions to Mail services, justifying them with a large number of viruses.
Wikipedia.
Wikipedia is a search reference system.
The non-profit search engine, which operates on private donations, therefore does not fill its pages with advertising. A multilingual project whose goal is to create a complete reference encyclopedia in all languages of the world. It has no specific authors and is populated and run by volunteers from all over the world. Each user can both write and edit an article.
Official page - www.wikipedia.org.
Youtube is the largest library of video files.
Video hosting with elements of a social network, where each user can add a video. Since their acquisition by Google Ink, separate registration for YouTube is not required, just register in the Google email service.
Official page - youtube.com.
Yahoo! is the second most important search engine in the world.
There are additional services, the most famous of which is Yahoo mail. As part of improving the quality of the search engine, Yahoo transfers data about users and their queries to Microsoft. From this data, an idea of the interests of users is formed, and a market for advertising content is formed. The Yahoo search engine, like , is engaged in the acquisition of other companies, for example, Yahoo owns the Altavista search service and the e-commerce site Alibaba.
Official page - www.yahoo.com.
WDL is a digital library.
The library collects books that provide cultural value in digital form. The main goal is to increase the level of cultural content of the Internet. Access to the library is free.
Official page - www.wdl.org/ru/.
Bing is a search engine from Microsoft.
Official page - www.baidu.com.
Search engines in Russia
Rambler is a “pro-American” search engine.
Initially it was created as an Internet media portal. Like many other search engines, it has search services for images, video files, maps, weather forecasts, a news section and much more. Publishers also offer a free browser, Rambler-Nichrome.
Official page - www.rambler.ru.
Nigma is an intelligent search engine.
A more convenient search engine due to the presence of many filters and settings. The interface allows you to include or exclude suggested similar values in the search to obtain better results. Also, when receiving a search result, it allows you to use information from other major search engines.
Official page - www.nigma.ru.
Aport - online product catalog.
In the past, a search engine, but after development and innovation were stopped, it quickly lost ground and . Currently, Aport is a trading platform where the products of more than 1,500 companies are presented.
Official page - www.aport.ru.
Sputnik is a national search engine and Internet portal.
Created by Rostelecom. Currently in testing stage.
Official page - www.sputnik.ru.
Metabot is a growing search engine.
Metabot's tasks are to create a search engine for all other search engines, creating results positions taking into account data from the entire list of search engines. That is, it is a search engine for search engines.
Official page - www.metabot.ru.
The search engine has been suspended.
Official page - www.turtle.ru.
KM is a multiportal.
Initially, the site was a multiportal with the subsequent introduction of a search engine. The search can be carried out both within the site and across all monitored RuNet sites.
Official page - www.km.ru.
Gogo - does not work, redirects to a search engine.
Official page - www.gogo.ru.
The Russian multiportal, not very popular, requires improvement. The search engine includes news, television, games, and a map.
Official page - www.zoneru.org.
The search engine does not work, the developers suggest using the search engine.
What is this
DuckDuckGo is a fairly well-known open source search engine. Servers are located in the USA. In addition to its own robot, the search engine uses results from other sources: Yahoo, Bing, Wikipedia.
The better
DuckDuckGo positions itself as a search engine that provides maximum privacy and confidentiality. The system does not collect any data about the user, does not store logs (no search history), use cookies as limited as possible.
DuckDuckGo does not collect or share personal information from users. This is our privacy policy.
Gabriel Weinberg, founder of DuckDuckGo
Why do you need this
All major search engines are trying to personalize search results based on data about the person in front of the monitor. This phenomenon is called the “filter bubble”: the user sees only those results that are consistent with his preferences or that the system deems as such.
Forms an objective picture that does not depend on your past behavior on the Internet, and eliminates thematic Google advertising and Yandex, based on your requests. With DuckDuckGo it is easy to search for information in foreign languages, while Google and Yandex by default give preference to Russian-language sites, even if the query is entered in another language.
What is this
not Evil is a system that searches the anonymous Tor network. To use it, you need to go to this network, for example by launching a specialized .
not Evil is not the only search engine of its kind. There is LOOK (the default search in the Tor browser, accessible from the regular Internet) or TORCH (one of the oldest search engines on the Tor network) and others. We settled on not Evil because of the clear hint from Google (just look at the start page).
The better
It searches where Google, Yandex and other search engines are generally closed.
Why do you need this
The Tor network contains many resources that cannot be found on the law-abiding Internet. And their number will grow as government control over the content of the Internet tightens. Tor is a kind of network within the Internet with its own social networks, torrent trackers, media, trading platforms, blogs, libraries and so on.
3. YaCy
What is this
YaCy is a decentralized search engine that works on the principle of P2P networks. Each computer on which the main software module is installed scans the Internet independently, that is, it is analogous to a search robot. The results obtained are collected into a common database that is used by all YaCy participants.
The better
It’s difficult to say whether this is better or worse, since YaCy is a completely different approach to organizing search. The absence of a single server and owner company makes the results completely independent of anyone's preferences. The autonomy of each node eliminates censorship. YaCy is capable of searching the deep web and non-indexed public networks.
Why do you need this
If you are a supporter of open source software and a free internet, not subject to influence government agencies And large corporations, then YaCy is your choice. It can also be used to organize a search within a corporate or other autonomous network. And even though YaCy is not very useful in everyday life, it is a worthy alternative to Google in terms of the search process.
4. Pipl
What is this
Pipl is a system designed to search for information about a specific person.
The better
The authors of Pipl claim that their specialized algorithms search more efficiently than “regular” search engines. In particular, profiles are given priority social networks, comments, lists of participants and various databases where information about people is published, for example databases court decisions. Pipl's leadership in this area is confirmed by assessments from Lifehacker.com, TechCrunch and other publications.
Why do you need this
If you need to find information about a person living in the US, then Pipl will be much more effective than Google. Database Russian ships, apparently, are inaccessible to the search engine. Therefore, he does not cope so well with Russian citizens.
What is this
FindSounds is another specialized search engine. Searches various sounds in open sources: house, nature, cars, people, and so on. The service does not support queries in Russian, but there is an impressive list of Russian-language tags that you can use to search.
The better
The output contains only sounds and nothing extra. In the settings you can set the desired format and sound quality. All sounds found are available for download. There is a search by pattern.
Why do you need this
If you need to quickly find the sound of a musket shot, the blows of a suckling woodpecker, or the cry of Homer Simpson, then this service is for you. And we chose this only from the available Russian-language queries. In English the spectrum is even wider.
Seriously, a specialized service requires a specialized audience. But what if it comes in handy for you too?
What is this
Wolfram|Alpha is a computational search engine. Instead of links to articles containing keywords, it provides a ready-made answer to the user's request. For example, if you enter “compare the populations of New York and San Francisco” into the search form in English, Wolfram|Alpha will immediately display tables and graphs with the comparison.
The better
This service is better than others for finding facts and calculating data. Wolfram|Alpha collects and organizes knowledge available on the Web from a variety of fields, including science, culture and entertainment. If this database contains a ready-made answer to a search query, the system displays it; if not, it calculates and displays the result. In this case, the user sees only nothing superfluous.
Why do you need this
If you're a student, analyst, journalist, or researcher, for example, you can use Wolfram|Alpha to find and calculate data related to your work. The service does not understand all requests, but it is constantly developing and becoming smarter.
What is this
The Dogpile metasearch engine displays a combined list of results from search results from Google, Yahoo and other popular systems.
The better
First, Dogpile displays fewer ads. Secondly, the service uses a special algorithm to find and show the best results from different search engines. According to the Dogpile developers, their systems generate the most complete search results on the entire Internet.
Why do you need this
If you can't find information on Google or another standard search engine, look for it in several search engines at once using Dogpile.
What is this
BoardReader is a system for text search in forums, question and answer services and other communities.
The better
The service allows you to narrow your search field to social platforms. Thanks to special filters, you can quickly find posts and comments that match your criteria: language, publication date and site name.
Why do you need this
BoardReader can be useful for PR specialists and other media specialists who are interested in the opinion of the masses on certain issues.
Finally
The life of alternative search engines is often fleeting. Lifehacker asked the former general director of the Ukrainian branch of Yandex, Sergei Petrenko, about the long-term prospects of such projects.
Sergey Petrenko
Former CEO"Yandex.Ukraine".
As for the fate of alternative search engines, it is simple: to be very niche projects with a small audience, therefore without clear commercial prospects or, conversely, with complete clarity of their absence.
If you look at the examples in the article, you can see that such search engines either specialize in a narrow but popular niche, which, perhaps, has not yet grown enough to be noticeable on the radars of Google or Yandex, or they are testing an original hypothesis in ranking, which is not yet applicable in regular search.
For example, if a search on Tor suddenly turns out to be in demand, that is, at least a percentage will need the results from there Google audience, then, of course, ordinary search engines will begin to solve the problem of how to find them and show them to the user. If the behavior of the audience shows that for a significant proportion of users in a significant number of queries, results given without taking into account factors depending on the user seem more relevant, then Yandex or Google will begin to produce such results.
“Be better” in the context of this article does not mean “be better at everything.” Yes, in many aspects our heroes are far from Yandex (even far from Bing). But each of these services gives the user something that the search industry giants cannot offer. Surely you also know similar projects. Share with us - let's discuss.
