Search Engines

I have played around with Rollyo in the past. I can see how it would be useful to put in an online pathfinder about a specific topic, or for a teacher to use to have her students find information for a lesson. Really, though, I prefer to use google when searching online.

Today I tried searching the terms "harry potter" (my default search terms when ever I have to use an example or evaluate a search engine.) I am familiar with many of the Harry Potter sites out there, so I can quickly evaluate the results. Both Google and Dogpile listed the office WB site, JK Rowling's site and other big Harry Potter sites near the top of the search. However, on Mamma, the first search result was from a site called "parenting teens" and J.K. Rowling's site didn't even appear on the first page of results. In terms of the two metasearch engines, Dogpile had better results, but I think I will stick to google when doing internet searches.