If you get really curious about search engines and their differences, access one of the following sites.
1) Rollyo
“Rollyo is the fast, easy way to create personal search engines using only the sources you trust… You can explore and save searchrolls created by the community of Rollyo users and share your knowledge on a particular set of topics.”
http://www.rollyo.com/
2) Cha Cha
“ChaCha works with virtually every provider and allows people with any mobile phone device – from basic flip phones to advanced smart phones – to ask any question in conversational English and receive an accurate answer as a text message in just a few minutes.”
http://www.chacha.com/
3) Fact Bites
“Factbites – a new way to search the web.
Other search engines spew out meaningless site-names and mangled phrases.
Factbites offers you real, meaningful sentences that are right on topic.”
http://www.factbites.com/
4) Mamma
The mother of all search engines
http://mamma.com/
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September 10th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Ms. Dewey . . . hmm. At first I found it entertaining and amusing, but after using it I found it rather slow, the display window small and not very user friendly, and ultimately the comments a little annoying. It was fun to check out, but not a search engine I would probably use.
Laura
A/V #1
September 10th, 2008 at 8:07 pm
Cool search engine, something different. Provided list of resources. Scrolls down too fast. Her talking is distracting when one needs to concentrate. Nice and funny at first but a nuisance later. Hard to read. Looks like a modern Elvira.
Sites are informative though.
September 10th, 2008 at 9:35 pm
Hi Dr. Cyrus!
Just checked out the site and was able to “meet” Ms. Dewey. She is quite a character and you are right, it is more geared for males. Nevertheless, I requested info about Vision Impairment and she did deliver some good sites for references. Thanks for sharing the search engine with me. See you tomorrow
September 10th, 2008 at 10:44 pm
I enjoyed reading about new search engines. The descriptions about them were short, sweet and straight to the point. I thought Ms. dewey was pretty hilarious with her personality and her acting skills. It made me want to check out all these search engines most especially factbites. It was good seeing things about UOG and reading about Dr. Underwood interacting with the teachers and holding lunches once a month to interact and talk about our education on Guam.
September 11th, 2008 at 12:08 am
O my ! this search engines are fabulous. Thank you Dr. Cyrus this will help me a lot, Ms. Dewey is so cute specially when she pout and the background are so nice, very realistic.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:19 am
If I had a lot of time on my hands to do research, then I might use ms dewey’s search engine, only because it is entertaining. Her constant movement and changes in facial expressions may cause one to pause their searching just to see what she does next. Granted, the hits for searches are quite accurate, however, it seems that her “humanness” is what makes the web site, and not the site’s search capability.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:25 am
Fact Bites search engine is useful because it provides detailed descriptions of what the searcher will find in the website without opening it first. This comes in handy when we are in need of quick information, and do not have much time to spare.
September 11th, 2008 at 9:53 am
Ms. Dewey . . . at first I found it entertaining and amusing, but after using it I found it rather slow, the display window small and not very user friendly, and ultimately the comments a little annoying. It was fun to check out, but not a search engine I would probably use.
Laura J.
A/V #1
September 11th, 2008 at 10:37 am
msdewey was a fun little search engine….and she really gets you to keep looking because she gets bored so quickly. =) haha. I also liked the way we scroll down with our search results.
September 11th, 2008 at 11:06 am
I really enjoyed Ms. Dewey’s search engine! She really made me laugh with all her funny movements and gestures!!
September 11th, 2008 at 2:53 pm
She was kind of irritating, I perefer a blond to talk to. the number of websites viewed are very low per page and it took long to load and keep loaded.
September 12th, 2008 at 2:28 pm
I viewed Ms. Dewey search engine, and I was kind of supprised with this search engine when she mentioned the word condom…anyways it seems so alive, it is like having a real person in front of you who is checking you out, specially when she knocks and says “is anybody there?” It took me a while to download this search engine, It also took me awhile to decide on a topic to search for…I checked Ms. Dewey search engine last week, and it took me a while to download the search engine, today I tried to download it and I couldn’t, this is the reason I couldn’t post a comment.
Araceli
September 16th, 2008 at 11:00 am
A very interesting website. Is it real or memorex? A website for males.
April 17th, 2009 at 11:27 pm
Thanks, Dr. Cyrus, for this URL. It’s great having other search engines to choose from.