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100 Search Engines
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A9
A9.com
helps people find what they want on the world's
leading e-commerce sites.
Millions of customers discovering millions of
products. A9.com powers Product Search on Amazon and
other leading e-commerce sites worldwide.
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AAA Matilda
The
most popular search engine outside of North America.
Matilda is a very individual search engine from
Australia, and growing rapidly in popularity.
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Alba36.com
A human reviewed searchable directory to over 2700
specialty and regional search engines, vortals,
portals, topical guides, specialized directories and
the best web sites.
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ANZWERS
ANZWERS (Australian and New Zealand Web Enquiry and
Research System) offers visitors the ability to
quickly conduct region and domain specific searches.
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Alta Vista
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Alta Vista UK
An
awesome site from Digital, it maintains a HUGE index
with powerful and FAST search functions. Coverage is
excellent so it is good for broad searching and for
offbeat subjects but you can be overwhelmed by too
many hits. The Advanced Search is useful for finding
images, MP3/audio and video files, and there's the
useful
Babelfish Translator
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Ask Jeeves
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Jeeves
For Kids
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Ask Jeeves UK
Innovative online search service that processes
plain-language queries with surprising accuracy.
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BBC - Search The Web
The
BBC's "family friendly" search engine, based on
Google search technology. Results are clear,
uncluttered, relevant, and commercial free. "Our
results are the ones that best match your search
words - not the ones advertisers want you to see."
Excellent!
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BOTBOT.com
BOTBOT parallel search engine and Web Directory -
Get multiple results using advanced parallel search
technology. Search the Web, News, MP3, Images,
Audio, Video and more. Comes up with some good
results.
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BrightGate MetaSearch
Searches over 20 search engines using a parallel
metasearch.
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Britannica Internet Guide
This site strives to list only the highest quality
sites on the Net. It's now integrated into the
Britannicca.com website, so you get a high-quality
search engine and encyclopaedia at the same time.
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Direct Hit
This Popularity Engine tracks the sites that people
actually select from the search results list. By
analyzing the activity of millions of previous
Internet searchers, Direct Hit determines the most
popular and relevant sites for your search request.
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Dogpile
Sends a search to a customizable list of search
engines, directories and specialty search sites.
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FAST Search
One of the new generation of search services, armed
with next-generation technology. FAST aims to be
bigger, speedier and more accurate than the existing
major search engines.
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Feedster
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GigaBlast
Gigablast is a new search-engine that looks set to
challenge Google. It's been set up by a New Mexican
Software Engineer, and already producing great
search results.
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Global Online Directory (GOD)
UK based search engine.
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GO Network
Go is
the reincarnation of Infoseek, a newly designed site
claiming to have enhanced capabilities, with a 50%
larger search index and search results pages that
are 30% faster. It offers portal features such as
personalization and free e-mail.
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Google
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Google UK
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Google Image Search
Google
is a search engine that makes heavy use of link
popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Users
across the web have in essence voted for good sites
by linking to them.
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GoTo
GoTo is the only major search engine which sells
listings. Companies can pay money to be placed
higher in the search results, which GoTo feels
improves relevancy.
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HealthLinks
Massive directory listing over 4,600 health related
websites in 150 categories.
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HotBot
This
search engine has a great many loyal fans. It very
often comes up with the goods where other engines
fail.
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HuskySearch
The author of MetaCrawler continues research into
information retrieval with this University of
Washington-based metacrawler.
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Internet Sleuth
Allows you to search the standard search engine
choices or a huge number of specialty sites, all
from the same place.
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LookSmart
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Looksmart UK
LookSmart is the closest rival Yahoo has, in terms
of being a human-compiled directory of the web. The
high quality of the directory is thanks to a team of
nearly 200 full-time professional editors.
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Lycos
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Lycos UK
Lycos
has been around since the early days of the net and
is still one of the most popular search engines. The
service employs human editors for some of its
listings, complemented by crawler-based results. The
name Lycos comes from the Latin for "wolf spider."
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MSN (Microsoft)
Microsoft's MSN service features both directory
listings and search engine results. Powered by
Inktomi, this is now one of the most powerful search
engines.
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Multi Search
Multi
Search is a powerful tool which will search all the
top search engines with one click.
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Open Directory
NetScape's Open Directory Project aims to build the
most comprehensive human-reviewed directory of the
web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
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SavvySearch
Metacrawler type engine.
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Teoma Search
Teoma,
which means "expert" in Gaelic, determines the
authority or quality of a site's content, by using
Subject-Specific Popularity. Subject-Specific
Popularity ranks a site based on the number of
same-subject pages that reference it, not just
general popularity.
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UK Index
Lists sites based in the UK or that are UK-relevant.
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UKMax
UKMax allows users to search only pages within the .uk
domain or perform a worldwide search. It also offers
some directory listings, regional news content,
weather reports, and portal features such as
portfolio tracking.
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UK Plus
UK Plus features reviews of UK-relevant sites,
prepared by a team of journalists. Reviews are
grouped into various channels, covering everything
from Arts and Business to Travel and Work. They are
also searchable.
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Webcrawler
One of the first and biggest
search engines, and it still produces highly
relevant results.
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Yahoo!
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Yahoo UK
Yahoo
is the web's most popular search service and has a
well-deserved reputation for helping people find
information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is
human beings. It is the largest human-compiled guide
to the web, employing 80 or more editors in an
effort to categorize the web. Yahoo has at least 1
million sites listed.
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yoono
Yoono
is an easy to use sidebar for your browser that
allows you to connect to all your social networks
and instant messaging services - in one place. Get
all your friend updates, update your own status, and
easily share stuff with your friends.
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yoople
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Your WebScout
A popular index of the Net's best Web sites,
discussion groups and archives.
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ZABASEARCH
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ZEBO
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Zillow.com
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Zippy
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ZOO.COM ZUULA
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SelectSurf
An excellent website directory, that doesn't
overwhelm with too many sites.
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Search Spaniel
This dog sniffs out several of major search engines
at the same time, or you can choose to do the same
with an extensive list of specialty search services,
such as for entertainment or employment information.
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SearchUK
Lists UK-related domains.
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Go2Net
This is a metacrawler, in other words it searches
several other search engines in order to obtain its
results. Rapidly gaining in popularity as a web
portal.
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WhosBest.com
A search engine that gives ratings for each site.
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Northern Light
A professional researchers' favourite, because it
organises material so well by topic. Based in
Canada.
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NewsBot
HotBot's news-only search service.
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REX
This
is a VERY nice site - a little sense of humour, very
professionally done.
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HandiLinks
This is a great
directory. HandiLinks listings are all organized
into a hierarchical index and it's fast and
easy-to-use. It has extensive categorization, and
uses a frame design that aids rather than getting in
the way of searches.
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Snap.com
Snap.com
is a
human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented
by search results. It aims to challenge Yahoo as the
champion of categorizing the web.
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Scour.Net
A useful multimedia search engine. Use it to find
audio, video, images and animation Scour.Net takes
you directly to the multimedia you are searching
for, quickly and easily.
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Mamma
Sends search requests to seven major search engines.
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NewsTrawler
Allows you to send a query to one or more news sites
from one location. Hundreds of sites are listed, by
country and by category.
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EuroSeek
EuroSeek is distinguished from other such engines by
a multi-lingual interface.
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Metafind
Similar to Dogpile, except that searches only go to
search engines.
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Mirago
UK directory and search engine.
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Other Search Engine related sites:
Excite Search Voyeur
See what other users are searching for on the Excite
search engine. Updates every few seconds, and you
can click on each query to see the results.
McKinley Search Voyeur
Similar to the Excite Search Voyeur.
Search Engine Watch
Contains listings of general-purpose search engines,
meta search engines and specialty search engines,
along with detailed searching tips, a newsletter,
and reviews and tests to keep you up to date with
what is hot and what is not.
Traffick
This Guide to Portals offers regular coverage of the
major web portals: Comparison chart, feature
reviews, regular analysis, and daily web portal
news.
What-U-Seek
With What-U-Seek you can add a professional-level
search engine to your web site in five minutes or
less.
Other Search Engines:
PureSearch
Enter
a query, select a search engine from those listed,
and results pop up in a new window.
ProFusion
University of Kansas metacrawler that allows
searches of up to six major search engines and also
provides broken link detection.
Inference Find
InFind
is "The Intelligent Massively Fast Parallel Web
Search", which will search all the major search
engines in the blink of an eyelid, then categorize
the results under useful headings. Excellent!
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