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How to use Dunbeacon.net

Dunbeacon.net offers two kinds of pages: reviews of the strengths and weaknesses of various popular search engines; and a set of search pages in which those search engines feature and can be used to find what you need. In addition, our search offers a way to find what any search engine can offer for any subject at all.

The overall intention of dunbeacon.net is to open up the world of internet searching, and suggest various resources which you may not have considered. Though Google is an excellent search engine, it does not and cannot cover the whole web, and the way it presents its results is not the only way it can be done.

1. Reviews and user input

From our main page you can access our reviews of the most popular engines, and see what those engines have to offer you, the searcher. More search engines will be added here over time. If you have an opinion or a useful experience with some search engine to share, you can add your comments to the page, at the bottom.

2. Search pages

Also from the main page you can access search pages for various popular terms. On these pages, you can browse through various links offering direct access to each engine's search results for that term, in search engines, news sources, blogs, rss feeds, commercial (product or servuce based) search engines and metasearch engines.

The general search options will also include other links which have refinements to the search which will give a smaller number of more specific results.

For example, in the screenshot below, the page deals with lamps for your home, but there are also links within the Wisenut, Mamma, Google and Beaucoup entries to 'home in' on specific types of lamp search results. We may refine this feature depending on user feedback.

3. Searching

Using the search box at the top of each dunbeacon page allows you to find the results for any term in any search engine.