3rd posting- Search Engines

Brief summary on 4 search engines
1. Google Scholar
This is a freely-accessible Web search engine. It includes most peer-reviewed online journals of the world’s largest scientific publishers. It also comprises the metadata required for identifying specific articles in explicit issues. It allows effortless access to published articles without the difficulties that are encountered in some of the most expensive commercial databases.

2. Yahoo!
It provides Internet services worldwide. It is best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news and social media websites and services. It is the second most visited website in the U.S., and in the world. Yahoo! formed partnerships with telecommunications and Internet providers to create content-rich broadband services.

3. Mamma.com
Mamma.com Inc. was renamed Copernic Inc. Along with the name change came a new stock symbol (CNIC)(June 14, 2007) and a new corporate website. Prior to the name change, its slogan was "The Mother Of All Search Engines".

4. ERIC Digests.org
It offers a large variety of topics covered including teaching, learning, libraries, charter schools, special education, higher education, home schooling, and many more. It is specifically for teachers, administrators, policymakers, and other practitioners, but generally useful to the broad educational community. It is designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, plus references to items providing more detailed information.