The goal of people who need health information is to get the best information as fast as possible.

While health information is not mentioned in this review, there are some features of these five alternates which are, shall we say, “adjacent” to those who are staying on top of health care news and issues.

Since the writer, Harry McCracken, has an impressive number of Google searches to his credit, his comments are interesting.

Fox News

“How much do I love Google? Thanks to the stats provided by Google Web History, it’s easy to quantify: Over the past four and a half years, I’ve Googled for information 43,295 times. That works out to about one search per hour, 24/7/365. If that doesn’t indicate passion for the world’s most popular search engine, I don’t know what does.

“But I’d never argue that Google is always the fastest, most effective way to find facts, seek advice, take actions, or simply satisfy your curiosity about the world around you. Actually, there are more viable Google alternatives than ever. For the most part, they don’t compete by trying to out-Google Google at basic Web searching. Instead, they do useful things that Google doesn’t.

“I’m nowhere near as dependent on any of these five free services as I am on Google — but I use and recommend them all.”

Source: Fox News, February 9, 2010