Thing #19 Search Engines

As most people do, during my daily searches for esoteric information on the web, I just go to that little Google box in the upper right of my Internet Explorer screen.  It's easy to type in just about anything and get way more results than anyone needs.

For this my 23 Things ecercise, I was to use 2 search engines and one Meta Search engine to look up a topic on the internet. 

Because I am thinking about opening an ETSY shop for my collection of vintage aprons that have been languishing in a trunk since I moved to Florida three years ago, I searched for Vintage Apron images on Google, Yahoo and Metacrawler.  I wanted to look at ways people displayed their aprons in order to present them at their best.

I found that Google had 1,390,000 results - not all were really aprons.  Yahoo had 33,000 images, but when I used Metacrawler I found that all the images they gave said "Exclusively at Yahoo". 

Here are some of the aprons:

So many options!  I guess I'll wait until my daughter visits and helps me in setting up "Nancy's Aprons" as a shop on ETSY.  Meanwhile, if you need aprons, I've got 'em.

As far as the search engines go, The Meta engine would be good if you had a very esoteric or hard-to-find topic.  Using the Metacrawler did lead me to searching my name and wonder just what someone would get if they did the $49.95 background check on me.