Computer Science trivia
Name a search engine
105 answers count for this computer science prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Bing
- Yahoo
- DuckDuckGo
- Ask Jeeves
- Baidu
- Yandex
- Ecosia
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- AltaVista
- Lycos
- Excite
- AOL Search
- Dogpile
- Infoseek
- HotBot
- WebCrawler
- Brave Search
- Startpage
- Qwant
- Naver
- Perplexity
- MSN Search
- Wolfram Alpha
The iceberg for “Name a search engine”
- The Tip8 answers · 10 ptsGoogle · Bing · Yahoo
- Below the Surface15 answers · 25 ptsAltaVista · Lycos · Excite …
- The Deep34 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss47 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 34 answers starting with A, B, C, G, I, K, L, M, N, P, R, S, T, W and Y. The Abyss has 47 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 105 answers in total, 20 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “A9”. Longest: “World Wide Web Worm”.
- A, M and S are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
- 9 answers can be typed more than one way: “Windows Live Search” counts as Live Search.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with A than with any other letter (10). Run through it first.
- Skip Google, Bing and Yahoo; everybody says them.
- Standards and their organisations hide many deep answers.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a search engine”?
- Most people start with Google, Bing, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo and Ask Jeeves. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a search engine”?
- 105 in all: 8 on The Tip, 15 Below the Surface, 34 in The Deep, 47 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a search engine”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “A9” and the longest is “World Wide Web Worm”.
- Is “Name a search engine” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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