All search engines are not alike! The comparison below was done as a homework assignment for a NJCU graduate course. I found the Kartoo site to be the most unique as it utilized a concept map or web technique to differentiate the search hits.
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Search: Summer camp jobs in NJ
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Yahoo
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Kartoo
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Snap
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Google
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Ask
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Devilfinder
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Clusty
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How long did it take?
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.23s
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<1s
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<1s
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.14 s
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<1s
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<1s
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<1s
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How many hits?
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7,340,000
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54,700
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622,000
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274,000
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146,100
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24 pages at 8 per page
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2,645,230
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How many hits on page one had relevant information?
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5/12
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3/12
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5/8
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6/10
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3 till I hit the malignant link
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Tmi—did not bother trying to look at the links
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5/10
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How many links worked on the first page of hits?
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All (10)
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All (12)
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all
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all
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3—see above
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Bailed out—see above
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all
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How current was the info?
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current
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current
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current
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current
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current
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dkdc
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current
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How accurate were the descriptions about the site?
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Ok
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accurate
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accurate
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accurate
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Accurate
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Did not check
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accurate
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What was your overall rating (1-10) of this search engine
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5 too much redundancy
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8—was confused by layout but figured it out quickly
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8—liked the snapshots-saved time
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7 some redundancy
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1—one of the top ten hits was a redirect to a bogus spyware site
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1
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7
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www.cuil.com
www.Google.com
www.ask.com
Meta Search engines (they pull results from many search engines)
www.dogpile.com
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