BLOG—Thing 7—Going Deeper Search Engines

I got carried away with the different search engines listed in this thing. I looked for people I know and such.
In the real world students, and I, need to have a REASON to go beyond Google. A few years ago there was Ask Jeeves and Yahoo and Dogpile but Google has topped these. Going to a different search engine is hard to do as I am becoming more comfortable with Google, including images and calendar. I really like the calendar and have 5 different calendars going, involving my husband, multiple calendars, and me at school. Using a search engine other than Google reminds me of moving from the local lending library to a college’s daunting collection. The local library is something comfortable where you find what you’re looking for. The college has too much and you can get lost.
Once again, I need to not be scared away while seeing a reason to take the risk of learning something new. Especially now with the country making moves from local newspapers to conglomerates owning everything and no independent news. This could be reason enough to learn other search engines.

As always, I LOVE the Common Craft Show as a way to learn about things. I also went back and really revisited RSS (Really Simple Syndication)—but I had to look this up in Wikipedia. Now I see where the RSS symbol is at the end of the URL dialog box. I expected it to be orange always. Not so. And not all sites have RSS, some have a star. For instance, the forum for kitchens that I am somewhat addicted to does not have RSS. I don’t know what the star is for.
I spent time looking for things through the different search engines and looking at the sites that I like and seeing if they had the RSS system. Time flew.