| Search Engines |
Website Description |
Ah-ha.com |
Billed as a kid-safe service powered by FAST Search, though some adult content does slip through. Also allows paid listings to appear at the top of its results. |
AllTheWeb |
AllTheWeb is the leading provider of the real-time search and filter technology solutions that are behind the scenes at some of the world's best known companies with the most demanding search problems. |
AltaVista |
Portal featuring web and newsgroup search engine as well as paid submission services. |
AOL Search |
The AOL Search site noted above searches the Web and is open to all users. It has a separate search mechanism for AOL members with access to its own content. It draws most of its directory listings from the Open Directory while Inktomi provides crawler-based results to support the directory listings. |
Ask Jeeves |
ASKJ allows users to search by question, phrase, or term. |
Coppernic |
Coppernic is a powerful meta search engine that draws results from over 100 search engines. It does not operate through an ordinary browser but requires its own software to be downloaded. The basic software is available as a freedownload whereas they also offer a "professional" version for a fee. |
Dogpile |
Dogpile is a multi-engine semi-parallel search interface. It searches logically through several search engines until 10 matches are found. It also allows use of boolean and proximity operators. |
Espotting.com |
Major paid placement service targeting users in the United Kingdom and Europe. Has wide distribution on UK and European search engines, such as Yahoo Europe web sites, Lycos Europe web sites, Ask Jeeves UK and AltaVista France. |
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Excite |
Excite results are dominated by paid listings from Overture, with non-paid results from Inktomi. |
FindWhat.com |
FindWhat is an important paid placement service because the company has distribution on many major metacrawlers. |
Go (Infoseek) |
Go is the former portal site that emerged in 1999 from the old Infoseek search engine. Owned by Disney, the company abandoned further development of Go in March 2001. Searching is still available at Go but the results are paid listings provided by Overture. |
Godado |
Paid placement search engine targeting countries in Europe. Select your particular country of interest from links at the bottom of the home page. |
Google |
Google is currently the leading search engine. Google search engine employs text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and relevant to a user's search. |
Google Adwords |
Google runs a program that places paid listings on its own web site, as well as on some other sites that carry its results, such as Earthlink. |
HotBot |
HotBot search engine that offers custom filters, skins, and access various other engines. |
InfoGrid |
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct link to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered. |
Infonetware RealTerm Search |
This site primarily designed to demonstrate classification technology from Infogistics. It's a meta search engine, and it does topicla classification of results, like Vivisimo. However, it is unique in that you can select several different topics, then "drill down" to see results from all of them, rather than being restricted to the results from only one topic. |
InfoSpace |
InfoSpace develops software technologies that allow customers to offer a broad array of network-based services under their own brand. |
Inktomi |
The Inktomi index is not accessible directly but is accessed through other services. It was first used to power Hotbot and now powers several other services in addition. All of the services use the same index but results may be slightly different as partners have the ability to use the index in different ways in order to distinguish themselves primarily by the use of filtering and ranking techniques. |
IWon |
iWon's, launched in 1999 draw results from Overture and Inktomi. |
Ixquick |
Metasearch engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines. |
Kartoo |
As an aid to visualizing ones results, this meta search engine shows results with sites being interconnected by keywords. |
Lycos |
Lycos is an online destination site combining elements of navigation, community, and commerce. |
Mamma |
The mother of all search engine. |
MetaCrawler |
MetaCrawler is a search service that relies on the databases of other search engines |
MetaEureka |
MetaEureka offers option to see Alexa info about pages that are listed. |
MSN Internet Search |
Micrsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart-powered directory of websites, with secondary results that come from Inktomi. Direct Hit data is also made available. |
NBCi |
NBCi (formerly SNAP) provides listings from Dogpile, a meta search engine that is dominated by paid listing services. It was formerly a human-compiled directory of web sites. |
Netscape Search |
Netscape Search's result come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own Smartsearch database, which does an excellent job of listing "official" web sites. Secondary results come from Google. At the Netscape Netcenter portal site, other search engines are also featured. |
Overture |
Overture is the oldest and the most important paid placement search engine because it distributes its listings to a wide-range of major search engines, including AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot and Netscape Search. |
ProFusion |
Retrieves listings from several major search engine as well as "Invisible Web" resources. |
qbSearch |
Want to get multiple pages of results from a search engine combined into one single page? QB-Search will quickly join up to 200 pages of listings from major search engines. |
Search.com |
Search.com searches Google, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and dozens of other leading search engines to bring you the best results. |
Search Engine Watch |
Search Engine Watch provides tracking search engine news, important changes, and providing quality information about these important tools. |
Sprinks |
Paid placement service that post links to appropriate areas within the About.com network of subject sites. Listings are also available by searching at the Sprinks site itself. They are also distributed to some meta search engines. |
SurfWax |
Searches against major engines or provides those who open free accounts the ability to chose from a list of hundreds. Using the "SiteSnaps" feature, you can preview any page in the results and see where your terms appear in the document. Allows results or documents to be saved for future use. |
Teoma |
Teoma compares links of sites that are subject relevant. |
Vivísimo |
Vivísimo offers organized search results with document clustering. Enter a search term, and Vivisimo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize pages into categories. Slick and easy to use. |
WebCrawler |
WebCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as AltaVista, Direct Hit, Looksmart and About. |
WebWombat |
Search engine which lists pages from sites within the .au (Australia) and .nz (New Zealand) domains. It also provides global coverage. |
WiseNut |
WiseNut employs a context-sensitive ranking algorithm to return search results by degrees of relevance. |
Yahoo |
Yahoo provides a comprehensive online products and services to consumers and businesses worldwide. |
