Thing 12: Other Search Engines

Here are the results of checking out some "other search engines". . .I searched for information concerning the new satire on privatized war titled "War, Inc.". . ."War, Inc." is a film starring Joun Cusack, Hillary Duff, Marisa Tomei, Ben Kingsley, Dan Ackroyd et al, produced by Cusack and directed by Joshua Seftel (a documentarian making his feature film directorial debut), that satirizes a future conflict in the fictional Turaqistan, where all the fighting is done by private corporations. . .Enough of the plot summary--My first experiment was using the visual search engine "kart00". . .This engine utilizes Flash and features a genie that provides you with a lot of results for the search. . .Unfortunately, as nice as it looks, it was not something I would recommend to anyone else, as it has way too many flaws, and is definitely not friendly for the casual user. . .One would need a seminar to use "kart00". . .My next attempt, "Qunitura" led to a "Not Found--Error 404" page. . .When I tried to search "War, Inc." on "Music Plasma" (it does have a movie option), I received a lot of information about a 2001 movie called "Monsters, Inc."--a movie which has no connection of any type to my search. . .A total bust. . .Next, I tried "Dog Pile". . .Success!. . .A Meta Search engine, Dog Pile presented a comprehensive list of results--the first result was the official site for the movie, followed by International Movie Database (imdb.com) which is the #1 movie site on the web--Dog Pile is highly recommended. . .As for the other Meta Search engine--"Clusty"--the results were adequate, but not as successful as "Dog Pile". . .Too many results not pertaining to the movie, were "clustered" (lol) in with the movie results. . .In summary, avoid visual search engines, and check out "dogpile.com"--an outstanding Meta Search engine. . .drfaust