Most Popular Engines
- excite
- is a global media company offering consumers and advertisers
comprehensive Internet navigation services with extensive
personalization capabilities. Search services include the Excite and
WebCrawler brands.
- AltaVista
- web and newsgroup search engine.
- Google
- uses text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important
and relevant to your search.
- Netscape
Search - combines results from the Netcenter, Open Directory, and
the Web.
- Lycos
- develops and provides online guides to locate and filter information
on the Internet. Products enable users to accurately identify and
select information of interest to them.
- HotBot
- offers users a point-and-click interface, pulldown menus, and the
ability to use plain English terminology for constructing searches.
- MSN
Internet Search
- Direct
Hit - ranks search results according to what other people have
selected as the most relevant and popular sites for your search
request.
- Inference
Find - the intelligent massively fast parallel web search.
- Search
By Media - search the Web for sites, audio, images, and video.
- Other important Engines
- All
Academic - provides free academic searches of the internet.
Authors can index academic work as well.
- AltaVista
- web and newsgroup search engine.
- AOL
Search - search engine and directory.
- Aqueous
- dedicated to sites that have water related content.
- Clever
Project - publications and ongoing work at IBM Almaden Research
Center to develop algorithms and systems for solving the problem of
information overload.
- Clickey
- keyword based search enigne of registered domain names.
- Community-based
Navigation - We are testing an enhanced version of Mosaic that
supports fast Likert scale rating and automatically pools item-ratings
in a community server that can recommend and evaluate URLs.
- CompuServe@
- Direct
Hit - ranks search results according to what other people have
selected as the most relevant and popular sites for your search
request.
- EgoSurf
- search tool finds web pages that include your name, or any name you
provide.
- Electric
Monk - allows users to perform natural language web searches in
plain English.
- Espotting.com
- European search engine where consumers - or 'spotters' - get
rewarded for searching.
- excite
- is a global media company offering consumers and advertisers
comprehensive Internet navigation services with extensive
personalization capabilities. Search services include the Excite and
WebCrawler brands.
- Fast
Search
- FindSame
- searches on blocks of text rather than keywords. Can be used to see
if content has been reproduced or even plagiarized at other web
locations.
- FindWhat.com
- provides a real-time system for advertisers to ‘pay for
position’ in results rankings.
- Fish4It
- from Urban Desires; limits results to just one "damn near
perfect" URL. Discover the other fish in cyberspace.
- G-Spot
- Philipine search engine.
- GenDoor
- search engine dedicated solely to genealogy.
- GeoIndex
- search tool for geo-environmental professionals.
- Global
Online Directory - search engine with unique search facilities and
free classified ads.
- Google
- uses text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important
and relevant to your search.
- GoTo.com@
- Guidebeam
- returns search results grouped into browsable, related topics.
- Heuréka
- search engine for the Hungarian Webspace.
- HotBot
- offers users a point-and-click interface, pulldown menus, and the
ability to use plain English terminology for constructing searches.
- iAtlas
- focus searches by industry categories, geographic location, site
popularity, and other specialty filters.
- Ibeau
- search and navigational directory of sites featuring Asian
celebrities.
- ICQ
iT!
- ImproveMySearch.com
- meta-search engine ranks results according to popularity.
- Inference
Find - the intelligent massively fast parallel web search.
- InfoBASIC
- Infohiway
- Point-n-go access to the Infohiway. GeoSurfer reveals the web
geographically, Plus... FTP, Gopherspace and more.
- Informant
Server, The - personal search agent; will send email when your
favorite urls are updated.
- InfoTiger
Search Engine - Intelligent search - COOL ranking!
- Irena
- Web Connections Finder - glean from a target page of this Web
server all relevant hypertext links and their annotations. Irena is is
especially useful for locating links to resources referenced in long,
complex and densly written HTML documents.
- Kanoodle.com
- bid-for-location search engine with a focus on music. Also offers
email, chat, a Love & Advice section, and more.
- keyword.com
- LinkMaster
- LuXPoint
- internet directory and search for Luxembourg.
- Lycos
- develops and provides online guides to locate and filter information
on the Internet. Products enable users to accurately identify and
select information of interest to them.
- MOSHIx2
- Japanese and English search engine. Also has a browseable directory
of sites.
- MSN
Internet Search
- NationalDirectory
- Netscape
Search - combines results from the Netcenter, Open Directory, and
the Web.
- Netword
- a word or short phrase that provides free access to an Internet
destination. People & companies are creating Networds so you can
find their information easily.
- Northern
Light@
- Oingo
- offering a meaning-based search service.
- OneKey
- a child-safe search engine.
- Poke!
- search assistant that uses javascript and frames. It is always with
you, an alt + tab away.
- Raging
Search - employs text relevance, link analysis, and other factors
when performing a search.
- Scour
- guide to multimedia on the Internet. Use it to find audio, video,
images, and animation.
- Scrub
The Web - includes searching, user submissions, and a meta tag
analyzer.
- Search
Adobe PDF Online - search engine for PDF documents that allows you
to view the summaries before viewing the actual documents.
- Search
By Media - search the Web for sites, audio, images, and video.
- Search
King - engine that relies on web surfing for quality searching
results. Searchers vote on sites, assuring relevant internet results.
- SimpleSearch.com
- search engine targeted for the novice computer user. Features easy
to read results.
- Sitexplorer
- in English, German, Italian, and Spanish.
- Spider's
Apprentice, The - a public service site that offers help on
searching the Web. We also analyze and rate the major search engines.
- TheLinks
- includes major search engines, plus 800 numbers, zip codes, usp,
yellow pages and medical databases.
- Thunderstone
- an index of sites, not pages.
- United
States of America Web Resource
- Voila
- search the web or browse through categories.
- WebTop
- allows searches to be made across a hand-picked selection of sites.
- WebTop.com
- uses probability theory to rank keywords and suggest additional
related terms.
- What-U-Seek
- uses Chubba to search the Web
- Yam
Web Navigator@
- Yep
- surf engine based on quality and popularity.
- ZenSearch
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The Top 15
The Biggest, Fastest, Best of the Best
- WebCrawler Usually pretty
fast and thorough. Has become my first choice
- Alta Vista Definitely
one of the NEW PowerHouse search Engines
- SNAP A VERY good, comprehensive
and quite new search site. Could move to #1 !
- HotBot Another powerful one in
the top 12 group
- Excite Search Engine, Links to
over 11 million pages
- Yahoo One of
My favorite starting Point. Usually productive, available & fast
- InfoSeek
Searches Web pages full text and NewsGroups
- Ask
Jeeves answers questions submitted in any form. Quite a good site.
- Aliweb
A Public Service provided by NEXOR, UK
- The
Front Page / LinkStar Search Engine Getting Faster & Better
all the time
- Lycos Pretty thorough BUT
also Pretty Busy during the day - Best used @ Nite
- Web Wombat - well done
Australian Search Engine that been around since the beginning
- Matilda Large,
well organized and responsive Australian Search Engine
- Open Text Livelink Pinstripe.
Search site designed specifically for the business community
- MultiMeta Bilingual
simultaneous search in English/Deutsch/Español/Francais/Italiano
The Top 15-30
The Best of the Rest
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