Which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?

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Today the topic of our poll is on - (Which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?) Today we will analyze this poll and find out which search engine will user choose other then Google search engine. Today we have received total of 17 votes from our poll collected from last week. Below is an image of the total vote collected.
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Our poll question is - "which search engine will user choose when Google search engine server is down?"

1. Dogpile (3 votes out of 18 votes)
2. Yahoo (8 votes out of 18 votes)
3. Bing (3 votes out of 18 votes)
4. Ask.com (4 votes out of 18 votes)

This poll result shows that many users vote for Yahoo. The reason is because Yahoo is also a popular search engine for users. Yahoo search engine is a large, unique search engine database that is similar to Google search engine. Other than that, Yahoo also support full Boolean operation which consists of AND, OR, and NOT operator. This Boolean is made to help users to find a specific search result from the key-word entered. This search engine also provides non-case sensitive searching. Either lower or upper or mixed case will gives the same result.

The second most votes voted by users goes to Ask.com. Ask.com have the function called Binoculars that can save time by quickly previewing a search result before clicking it. Ask.com Toolbar is free Internet browser toolbar . The toolbar is optional to the users and always requires end user consent (in the form of an "Opt-Out" check box). Ask.com also provide users to erase search queries. This erase the needs of users to completely delete search queries and associated cookie information from Ask.com. This including IP addresses, user IDs, session IDs and the text of queries made.

The total vote for Dogpile and Bing are same which are 3 out of the total - 17 votes. Dogpile used metasearch for searching. Dogpile search engine have the most recent search feature that displays at the right hand side of the webpage. This is to let users to navigate back to the recent searches. Other than that Dogpile search engine also provide the advanced search which refine the search. Advanced search give the option to narrow the search by exact word phrases, language filters, date, domain filters, or adult filters. This also have the option to set the search preferences with the ability to customize the Dogpile default search setting.

Bing on the other hand have an interactive interface features which includes a daily changing of the background image. Some of the background image contains information about the element shown in the image. Bing also provide a navigation panel. The navigation include and, on results pages, related searches and prior searches. For media, Bing provide the video thumbnail Preview where hovering over a video thumbnail, the video will start playing automatically

reference

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http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/features/yahoo/review.html
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/140491/askcom_allows_users_to_erase_search_queries.html

Metamend Software & Design Ltd, [online], 2010
http://www.metamend.com/dogpile-search-engine.html