Spirit of Inquiry Help Page

Metasearch engines search across multiple platforms, and can sometime cull the best results the web has to offer. Try:

• Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and groups similar results together into groups or clusters.

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And these search engines that are NOT Google might provide you with just the different kind of result you didn't know you were looking for!

• Bing is the nearest competitor to Google. A search engine owned and operated by Microsoft, Bing returns well-organized and image-rich results.

• DuckDuckGo does not track your searches, so it protects your privacy AND returns results outside of your personal "filter bubble."

• The Internet Archive is a digital library and also provides access to the Wayback Machine which can show you what a webpage looked like in the past! The Wayback Machine will also allow you to save a webpage as it exists in any moment.

• WolframAlpha is a "computational knowledge engine" rather than a search engine, and responds to search terms with data instead of webpages.