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Specialist Search Engines vs. the Big Box: A 2026 Field Test

Specialist Search Engines vs. the Big Box: A 2026 Field Test

For five workdays I routed every lookup through a rotating cast of niche engines — federal records, medical literature, patents, local businesses, product labs, and archived web pages. The big search box lost more often than I expected, but only when I matched the tool to the question. Here is the scorecard and the shortcuts worth keeping.