Search Engines: Reviews

University of California, Berkeley Library: Librarians recommend Google as the best search engine for most purposes.

Network World.com: Google was handling 70 percent of the searches in the United States when this was written.

CrowdFlower.com: Bloggers tested Google in 2008, making this review a bit dated, but their results are consistent with more recent reviews.

Viewpoints.com: Most users consider Google the place to go for the quickest and most relevant search results.

Time magazine: Google strives to stay ahead its competition with new innovations, but Harry McCracken, a technology columnist and blogger, worries that the search engine could lose some of its simplicity.

ListOfSearchEngines.info: Google ranks number one in searches with 150 million users every month at the time of this report.

AppAppeal.com: Google gets a perfect 5 stars out of 5 and is the top search engine pick of an editor who says it can be used to find just about anything.

CNET: Reviewer Jay Greene tests the new Google Voice Search feature and is able to get relevant results searching the hard-to-pronounce name Zbigniew Brzezinski.

PC World: This slideshow compares searches and related services by Bing, Google and Yahoo!

The Daily Beast: In a comparative test against Blekko and Google, Bing wins in some areas, including recipe search, based on 100 real-world search queries.

Network World.com: In this comparative review, editors note that features like tabs and an answer box are helping Bing distinguish its search results from Google's.

About.com: This About.com page doesn't make a definitive pick, but it does provide useful descriptions of the top 10 search engines as chosen by readers.

Viewpoints.com: Viewpoints offers five user reviews for Bing and rates the search engine at 4.2 out of 5 stars.

Library Journal: Posted shortly after Bing's debut, this article describes Microsoft's effort to unseat Yahoo!

CNET: The article reports that Bing has taken a chunk of Google's market share in the last year, increasing its share by 75 percent between May 2010 and May 2011.

TechnologyReview.com: Continuing to look for an edge against Google, Bing now features social searching, which checks recommendations from a user's Facebook friends for more refined, personalized results.

PCMag.com: PCMag's lead software analyst Michael Muchmore gives Bing a positive review (4.5 out of 5 stars) for its "appealing design," and its ability to answer some queries without sending users to another website.

AppAppeal.com: Bing is useful for finding some information, like airline flight data, editors say, but Microsoft's search engine isn't likely to unseat Google at the top spot.

About.com: DuckDuckGo makes this list of About's 10 best search engines as chosen by readers, though the list is not ranked in any particular order.

BusinessWorld: Editor Tushar Kanwar likes DuckDuckGo because it looks like Google, but doesn't track history and has less spam in its results.

Wired: Ryan Singel states that DuckDuckGo leads the Web in privacy protection and tools for serious techies.

About.com: DuckDuckGo is the About.com Readers' Choice for the Best Search Engine of 2011 with 48 percent of the vote.

SearchEngineLand.com: Chris Sherman is skeptical of DuckDuckGo until he starts using it.

TimeTechland: DuckDuckGo reminds the reviewer of an older, more stripped down version of Google.

AppAppeal.com: This single-product review gives DuckDuckGo 4 stars out of 5 and discusses some of its features.