We all know the usual suspects: Google, Bing, and Yahoo. Is that it? Are those the only options?
Let’s try these unusual search engines for sourcing.
As shown on the footer of the home page. A submitted query goes through natural language understanding, pulls results from curated data and knowledge, and runs through a dynamic algorithmic computation; resulting in a computed visual presentation.
Didn’t get it? Let’s try an example.
Enter the query: python engineer.
The result has these sections:
Input interpretation:
Sub-specialties:
495,500$90170 per yearOther sections have this data:
SOC codeLet’s try another query. Start typing this: number of. It shows these suggestions:
Try the query: number of accountants in Chicago:
accountants and auditors, people employed, Chicago-Naperville-Joliet-13%$64560I had a hard time coming up with natural queries. The website has a page with examples. You can select a topic and get some ideas of queries that you can submit.
With this search engine, you can search in two languages at the same time. Why would you need this? I thought about it too.
I set the options to search pages written in English and Spanish.
Then I used the query: hadoop engineer.
It shows two columns of results. English on the left. Spanish on the right.
A lot of interesting results on the right:
In one of these results, I found a long list of users.
A search engine to crawl the deep web. Information not crawled by your typical search engine:
Let’s try this query: hedge fund manager
The results page has a variety of filters:
I clicked on the ‘Authors’ dropdown. It shows at least 100 authors. I selected one of these, and it showed my two results. One of them said IDC FutureScape: Worldwide Payments 2017 Predictions. I went to this result, and it opened a page describing an abstract from multiple authors. Some of their titles: Research Director Worldwide Blockchain, Research Director Consumer Banking, Associate VP Financial Insights.
Back on the full list of results. I filtered by, 2019, by Document type: Blog. The results now show only from Forbes. However, each result description contains a lot of information about hedge funds and managers.
It looks like Google and Bing aren’t the only options. Perhaps you can try something new.