I used Google, Bing, and Yometa, and searched for news articles on the Occupy movement.
On Google, my first results were Wikipedia articles, and then Google News results came up, and then there were several websites for specific Occupy protests and then separate results for news articles from the UK--The Guardian and The Telegraph.
On Bing, the first results were for separate news articles, then a separate result for all Bing News results, then Wikipedia articles, and then videos about the movement and recording the clashes between police and protesters. After that, there are a bunch of news results for US news outlets and some separate occupy websites mixed in.
On Yometa, which searches Google, Yahoo, and Bing, provides results in a Venn Diagram so that you can see which results come from each separate search engine and which come from two or all three of the search engines. I think that Yometa could be useful after getting used to it, but for me it was kind of confusing to decipher what it was telling me. I think a results list with an icon for each of the search engines (to let the user know which search engine each result comes up on) would be much more straightforward to the user.
What search engine do you use the most? Which have you found to be the most effective? And have you ever used meta search engines (that search more than one at once)?
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