Web Search Engines
- A9
- Amazon books, Live results .
- Abbreviations
- For abbreviations .
- Abcsearchengine
- Index based, fairly small .
- About
- Lots of articles on lots of things .
- Accoona
- Excellent for news, good for focussed searching .
- Acronymfinder
- Find acronyms .
- Aftervote
- Social search engine .
- Ajaxwhois
- Great for site statistics searches .
- Alexa
- Good for background information on a site .
- AllPlus
- Good meta engine, lots of options .
- Alltheweb
- Part of the Yahoo family .
- Altavista
- Oldie, but still a goodie,suprising enough .
- Answers
- Good for factual information .
- AOL Search
- Google in a different guise .
- Archive, Internet
- Good for older versions of a site .
- Ask
- One of the big four .
- Azoos
- Painfully bright yellow index engine .
- Beaucoup
- Index based, not impressed .
- Better Who Is
- Information about a website owner etc .
- Blinkx
-Multimedia search engine .
- Brainboost
- Part of the Answers family .
- Buzzle
- Index based, not impressed .
- ChaCha
- Search with a human guide .
- Clusty
- Good all rounder .
- Collarity
- Personalised search engine. Very good. .
- Complete Planet
- Excellent for hidden/invisible web .
- Convert
- To convert from one to another .
- Country Search Engines
- 4,000 country search engines .
- Definitions
- Good for various definitions .
- Digital-librarian
- Collection of links from a librarian .
- DMOZ (Open Directory Project)
- Good index/directory .
- Dogpile
- Multisearch GYMA .
- Draze
- Compare GYM on one screen .
- Ebingbong
- Social search, lets users rate results. .
- Eurekster
- Good for building your own engine .
- Exalead
-Superb functionality, good advanced options .
- Excite
-Does anyone still use that any more? .
- Factbites
- Factual information .
- FaganFinder
- Superb collection of engines .
- Fazzle
- Good all round meta search engine .
- Findsounds
- Audio/sound search engine .
- FinQoo
- Multi search engine, doesn't say what the sources are .
- Freesearch
- UK based engine, global scope .
- Galaxy
- Index based .
- Google
- Do I need to say anything about this one? .
- Google Blogsearch
- Best blog search engine going .
- Google Directory
- Same as DMOZ .
- Google Groups
-Good for obscure information .
- Google Images
- Yahoo image search is superior .
- Google Local
- Local to the UK that is. .
- Google News
- Adequate. Good for email alerts .
- Google Personalised
- Tailor results to your interests .
- Google Scholar
- Good(ish) for academic stuff .
- Google Trends
- Who is looking for what? .
- Healia
- Excellent medical search engine .
- Hotbot
- Blast from the past! .
- IAF People search
- Searches for people! US biased. .
- iBoogie
- Multi search engine, strong on clustering .
- Icerocket
- Good for blog searching .
- Illumirate
- Index based .
- InfoMine
- For scholarly internet resource collections .
- Infopeople
- People search .
- Infoservice
- Index based, bizarre collection of headings .
- Intute
- Superb directory, very authoritative .
- Irazoo
- Social search engine, vote for results .
- Ixquick
- Excellent meta search engine .
- Jayde
- Business to business .
- Jux2
- Excellent meta search & compare results .
- Kartoo
- Visual search engine, good reputation .
- Kazazz
- Free text search engine, not particularly exciting .
- Kidsclick
-Children's search engine .
- Librarians Internet Index
- Superb resource .
- Linkopedia
- Index based, not exciting .
- Live Search
- One of the big 4 .
- Lycos
- Almost lost in the midst of time, but still trying .
- Mahalo
- Social search engine, some like it, I don't .
- Mamma
-Multi meta search engine that's been around for years .
- Mastersite
- Calls itself #1 though I can't work out why .
- Metacrawler
- Meta search engine .
- Monstercrawler
- Meta search engine .
- Mooter
- Visual search engine .
- MsDewey
- Microsoft folly; annoying and pointless .
- Oaister
- Emphasis on hidden web academic material .
- Omnimedicalsearch
- Excellent medical search engine .
- Peerbot
- Very unusual engine, as it searches for favicons .
- Pepesearch
- Does not stand out .
- Pinakes
- Superb collection of Virtual Libraries .
- Questfinder
- Selective web directory .
- Quotations
- for Quotations .
- Quintura
- First rate, uses clouds of terms. Recommended .
- RedZee
- Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent .
- References
- Good all round resource .
- Re-quest
- Index/Directory web search engine .
- Scandoo
- accurately indicates a level of rustworthiness .
- Scirus
- Scientific search of web and selected journals .
- Scrubtheweb
- Nothing to recommend it .
- Search-beat
- Uses Google's database .
- Searchbug
- Search for people and companies in the US .
- Search.com
- Metasearch engine .
- Searchhippo
- Metasearch engine, unimpressed .
- Searchy
- Personalised search .
- Searchmash
- Google test bed .
- Search Medica
- Excellent medical search engine .
- Searchthe.net
- Meta search engine .
- Searchtheweb
- Index/Directory .
- Selectsurf
- Selective web directory .
- Similicio.us
- Find similar sites .
- Silobreaker
- Superb news resource .
- Slider
- Full text search engine that searches DMOZ .
- Smartlinks
- Index/Directory .
- SMEALSearch
- Academic authoritative content .
- Sproose
- Social search engine .
- Sunsteam
- Index/Directory .
- Supercrawler
- Index/Directory .
- Synonyms
- Good reference resource .
- Technorati
- Excellent weblog search engine .
- Thenet1
- Index/Directory .
- Thunderstone
- Index/Directory .
- Trooker
- Superb video search engine .
- Turbo 10
- Great for hidden/invisible web .
- TurboScout
- Very good multi search engine .
- Ujiko
- Visual search engine .
- Zip codes
- Information about US zip code areas .
- Web Brain
- Visual search engine .
- Webcrawler
- Meta search engine for GYMA .
- Web-search
- Meta search engine, one at a time .
- Webworldindex
- Index/Directory .
- Whatuseek
- Web/Index based, not worth the trouble .
- Windseek
- Meta search engine .
- WWW Virtual Library
- Second only to Pinakes .
- Yahoo!
- One of the big 4 .
- Yahoo Buzz
- What's going on? .
- Yahoo Directory
- Yahoo as it used to be .
- Yahooligans
- For children .
- Yahoo Local
- Local information .
- Yahoo Mindset
- Emphasis research or shopping .
- YouTube
- Video engine. Use Trooker instead .
- Zapmeta
- Allows for various methods of re-ranking .
- Zensearch
- Uses the Google database .
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