When I am serving as a job counselor at the North Dallas Shared
Ministries (http://www.ndsm.org), many
clients that I see are seeking work through staffing agencies. My initial search, not surprising, found
agencies listed by location. My
suggestion for individuals searching for temporary jobs is to use a search
engine with the following search argument: “staffing agencies your city”.
Below is list of the top search engines:
The 10 Best Search Engines of 2013
Most people don't want 290 search
engines, especially people who are internet beginners. Most users want a single search engine that delivers three key features:
1.
Relevant results (results you are actually interested in)
2.
Uncluttered, easy to read interface
3.
Helpful options to broaden or tighten a search
With this criteria, 10 Reader
Favorite Search Engines come to mind. These
10 search sites should meet 99% of the searching needs of a regular everyday
user.
At first,
DuckDuckGo.com looks like Google. But there are many subtleties that make this
spartan search engine different. DuckDuckGo has some slick features, like
'zero-click' information (all your answers are found on the first results
page). DuckDuckgo offers disambiguation prompts (helps to clarify what question
you are really asking). And the ad spam is much less than Google. Give DuckDuckGo.com
a try... you might really like this clean and simple search engine.
Years ago,
Dogpile was the fast and efficient choice before Google. Things changed,
Dogpile faded into obscurity, and Google became king. But today, Dogpile is
coming back, with a growing index and a clean and quick presentation that is
testimony to its halcyon days. If you want to try a search tool with pleasant
presentation and helpful crosslink results, definitely try Dogpile.
The Ask/AJ/Ask
Jeeves search engine is a longtime name in the World Wide Web. The super-clean
interface rivals the other major search engines, and the search options are as
good as Google or Bing or DuckDuckGo. The results groupings are what really
make Ask.com stand out. The presentation is arguably cleaner and easier to read
than Google or Yahoo! or Bing, and the results groups seem to be more relevant.
Decide for yourself if you agree... give Ask.com a whirl, and compare it to the
other search engines you like.
Yippy is a
Deep Web engine that searches other search engines for you. Unlike the regular
Web, which is indexed by robot spider programs, Deep Web pages are usually
harder to locate by conventional search. That's where Yippy becomes very
useful. If you are searching for obscure hobby interest blogs, obscure
government information, tough-to-find obscure news, academic research and
otherwise-obscure content, then Yippy is your tool.
Bing is
Microsoft's attempt at unseating Google. Bing used to be MSN search until it
was updated in summer of 2009. Touted as a 'decision engine', Bing tries to
support your researching by offering suggestions in the leftmost column, while
also giving you various search options across the top of the screen. Things like
'wiki' suggestions, 'visual search', and 'related searches' might be very
useful to you. Bing is not dethroning Google in the near future, no. But Bing
is definitely worth trying.
The Internet
Archive is a favorite destination for longtime Web lovers. The Archive has been
taking snapshots of the entire World Wide Web for years now, allowing you and
me to travel back in time to see what a web page looked like in 1999, or what
the news was like around Hurricane Katrina in 2005. You won't visit the Archive
daily, like you would Google or Yahoo or Bing, but when you do have need to
travel back in time, use this search site.
Webopedia is
one of the most useful websites on the World Wide Web. Webopedia is an
encyclopedic resource dedicated to searching techno terminology and computer
definitions. Teach yourself what 'domain name system' is, or teach yourself
what 'DDRAM' means on your computer. Webopedia is absolutely a perfect resource
for non-technical people to make more sense of the computers around them.
Mahalo is
the one 'human-powered' search site in this list, employing a committee of
editors to manually sift and vet thousands of pieces of content. This means
that you'll get fewer Mahalo hit results than you will get at Bing or Google.
But it also means that most Mahalo results have a higher quality of content and
relevance (as best as human editors can judge).
Mahalo also
offers regular web searching in addition to asking questions. Depending on
which of the two search boxes you use at Mahalo, you will either get direct
content topic hits or suggested answers to your question.
Try Mahalo.
You might like it enough to even become a editor there.
Yahoo! is
several things: it is a search engine, a news aggregator, a shopping center, an
emailbox, a travel directory, a horoscope and games center, and more. This 'web
portal' breadth of choice makes this a very helpful site for Internet beginners.
Searching the Web should also be about discovery and exploration, and Yahoo!
delivers that in wholesale quantities.
Google is the
undisputed king of 'spartan searching'. While it doesn't offer all the shopping
center features of Yahoo!, Google is fast, relevant, and the largest single
catalogue of Web pages available today. Make sure you try the Google 'images',
'maps' and 'news' features... they are outstanding services for locating
photos, geographic directions, and news headlines.
If you find this list of Internet search engines helpful to your
job search, please post a comment or email me at glynjordan@gmail.com or simply
pass the links along to someone in need of employment.
Thanks, Glyn
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