centime - 5:30 pm on Jun 22, 2007 (gmt 0)

Hi All

I just want to invite views on the reasons why you would choose one or the other component of the search market.

For example, my use

Search engines:
I use search engines where I dont exactly know what i am looking for,
I use search engines to find code samples,
I use search engines to find stories where I only have a small part of the story,
I use search engines for reading up on history,
I use search engines to find alternative articles to wiki

Wikipedia
Increasingly, where I require an article that is clearly defined, i simple go straight to wikipedia, and I am thinking of geting a paid encyclopedia service too.

Directories
I always prefer directories where I am looking for a business firm, I.e. wholesalers, plumbers, estate agents, printers, manufacturers, etc etc, However, this usually means using paper or web versions of established yellowpages an other phone directories. web directories, I 've actually only discovered within the last 1 year.

So , ,,,