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General
Search Engines
- Acoon - a new player, not
glitzy, but claims 86 million entries
- Ah-ha.com - claims "Only
the Good Stuff - with clean, fast, relevant results"
- Alltheweb.com - new, powered by FAST and Dell, aims
to have the biggest index
- AltaVista - the search engine with the largest database
worldwide. Transforming to portal now.
- Anzwers.com - Specializing
in web information retrieval mainly related to Australia and New Zealand
- AOL Netfind - AOL search engine. Results are determined
from listings in the Open Directory Project (www.DMOZ.org)
- Ask2k.com - New search
engine that is growing in popularity. Claims "Only the Best Sites in
the World"
- Britanica.com - advanced
topical search from britanica.com
- Canada.com - comprehensive
portal powered by Inktomi
- ColorStamps -
actually pays you to search their site
- Direct Hit - See what other Web searchers thought were
most important resuls. Excite uses this feature now, too.
- Excite - still one of the top search engines of the
Internet.
- Ezresult.com - new one
- Funkycat - one of the fastest growing URL resources
on the net. Claims to be "the new breed of search engine"
- Galaxy - claims to be the oldest searchable internet
directory, also called Trade Wave Galaxy
- Google - gives you side-by-side scores for search term
relevance and link popularity
- Go - already very popular,
started January 1999. Formerly known as Infoseek. Shows matching GO Guides,
RealNames and pages part of the GO network first. After that follow results
from the web.
- Goto.com - you have to
pay to get listed here.
- GoToWorld.com - Try the
World’s First Language Translation Search Engine
- HotBot - one of the veterans, some people`s favorite.
I guess a matter of design.
- HotRate.com - "search
made simple"
- Infoseek - is now GO Network
- Info Hiway - One of
the not so well known seach engines
- iWon.com - get your news,
sports, weather, etc. along with a chance to win their daily #10,000 giveaways
- Infomak - search engine & directory
- Jayde - search engine
with a fairly large web directory
- Kanoodle - searches
Open Directory
- Lycos - now owned by USA
Networks. Lycos owns Wired.
- Magellan - for good quality sites.
- MSN Search - powered
by Inktomi
- Netscape - popular
Gateway. Their search engine uses the Open Directory Project
- Northern Light - well categoriezed, often a good choice.
- Oingo - meaning based
search technology
- Pathfinder - Powered by Alta Vista.
- QuestFinder - Searching
the Web Search Engines, Web Directories, and Site Submissions.
- RagingSearch
- a new engine from altavista, with some new features
- Scrub the web - A new search engine.
- Searchalot
- they search a lot so you don't have to
- SearchKing - Search engine using searchers input to
determine relevancy and placement and has instant indexing.
- SimpleSearch
- Website owners pay for a high ranking for specified search queries. The
results are complemented by websites which are ranked by popularity
- Snap! - new Search Engine,
powered by Inktomi.
- Starting Point - well
designed www starting point
- WebCrawler - One of the bigger search engines.
- WebTop - search over
500 million pages
- Yep - A surf engine that
lists your site based on quality
- Zen Search - A strange
search engine.
MetaSearch and Parallel Search engines
- 1Blink.com - searches
Infoseek, Altavista, Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Thunderstone, Northern Light, and
NBCi.
- 7in1Search
- multi-search 7 top engines at once, 27 to choose from, plus specialty engines
for Mp3's, games, software, more
- 7Search.com - (also called 7MetaSearch)
searches the major search engines, awards Web sites in the top 10.
- All4One
- metasearch 4 engines in your choice of 5 catagories - uses frames to display
4 pages on one page
- Ask
Archie - Internet meta search engine.
- Ask Jeeves -ask Questions ! Inteligent
approach . . . popular for it's layout
- Baldey.com - good
metasearch
- BeSeeker - searches 6 engines for
The Web, also has catagories for Mp3, UseNet, Shareware, and Jobs
- Better Brain - searches Alta Vista,
Excite, GoTo, Google, Go, LookSmart, Lycos, MSN, NBCi, Yahoo, and Deja.
- ByteDog - searches 7 engines
- ByteHound - Same engine as Bytedog
but with lots of configuration options, and harder to read interface.
- C4 - C4 is the improved
version of the already excellent Cyber411 meta search engine - Personalize
everything from the way you search to the content displayed on the page -
This gets a 130 IQ rating from ZDNET.
- CentraPoint - this meta search
eliminates duplicate listings and ranks sites based on their popularity.
- DataHit - searches
7 engines
- Debriefing
- Debriefing is a meta search engine written entirely with Java servlets,
available in French and English.
- Dogpile - popular -
searches the Web, Usenet, FTP, weather, stock quotes, business news, and other
news wires
- FindWhat - very effective
metasearch, able to filter offensive material
- Go2net - powered by Metacrawler
- GoHip - metasearches
4 engines
- GoToWorld - Competent meta search
engine providing on target listings with a minimum of redundant pages. Providing
online language translation of Web pages.
- Highway 61 - A metasearch
site.
- Hulabaloo - Meta
search engine. Also has MP3 search, site submit and virtual cards.
- HuskySearch
- University of Washingtons' metasearch engine
- Ielectric.com
- New Metasearch that seems quite promising, using combined results from Dmoz,
MSN, All the Web, and more.
- Ignifuge - metasearch and directory
- InFind -
searches 6 engines, but doesn't give detailed results
- InfiniSearch
- metasearches 4 engines
- Infospace.com -
searches 10 engines, also has directories for Finance, Yellow pages and city
guides.
- InfoZoid - Easy to use meta search
engine - ranked 130 IQ by ZDNET
- IOport - Meta search
engine.
- IQSeek - includes the ability to control
which of 15 search engines are used
- Ixquick - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their
highest rating)
- Karnak - You must Register to use Karnak.
Queries take 8-20 minutes and the results page is emailed to you. Regularly
updates its findings and keeps the information for you at the site. Findings
are comprehensive and ranked by relevancy. In internet time this is a slooww
search tool, but its ability to dig deep over time can't be beat. For ongoing
research projects, this may be the search tool to try.
- Mamma - a popular metasearch
- MegaSpider - nice
fast metasearch
- MegaWeb - searches
4 engines . . . rather slow
- MetaCrawler -
powered by InfoSeek - searches 8 main portals to bring the most relevant sites
- MetaGopher - 10
engines to choose from
- Meta IQ - 14 engines plus
links to specialty engines
- MetaSpider - a
cute meta search engine
- Metor - Fast and comprehensive metasearch
engine - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
- MoChanni
- fast metasearch
- MonsterCrawler
- metasearches 7 engines in your choice of 5 categories
- MultiMeta - Searches
10 engines at once . . . too bad about the annoying pop-up ads
- MyGo - good metasearch,
quick directories to "best of the web"
- OneSearch - very
fast metasearch of 8 engines
- ProFusion - lesser
known metasearch, has good search options
- QueryServer - Nice - 10
engines are queried, and the results are combined and categorized according
to the options you choose - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET (their highest rating)
- Redesearch - Fast comprehensive
search of ten popular search engines. The new Google of meta search engines.
- Savvy Seach - now owned
by Cnet, is the same as Search.com
- Search.com - Great
for searching for Specialty Search Engines (It's at Top of Page) - also queries
search engines and databases at one time. Falls short in relevance, but excels
in the area of specialty meta searching. Gets a 130 IQ rating from ZDNET
- SecondPower - fast and effective
- Subjex.com - metasearch
that accepts human dialogue
- TurcoCrawler
- Turkish meta-search is multiligual
- Use It
- offers some different options for your search
- Vivisimo - brings results
up in Folders that can be expanded for more results - ranked 140 IQ by ZDNET
(their highest rating)
- WhatUseek - let
"Chubba" find whatUseek
Specialized
Search Engines
- 3Dup.com - catering
to 3D graphics and design, multimedia, news, technology
- Acclaim - Limited to businesses with internet presence.
- AllBusiness.com - search
for dot com businesses
- Alpha
Search - The primary purpose of AlphaSearch is to access the finest Internet
"gateway" sites. The authors of these "gateway" sites have spent significant
time gathering into one place all relevant sites related to a discipline,
subject, or idea.
- Amnesi - Name Search Engine, has also a very good listing
of all the different countries in URLS.
- Askme.com - get answers to your questions
from real people
- Astalavista - "computer security" related search engine.
- AtRus - Russian
search engine and portal (English and Russian versions)
- Babelfish - Systran Translation service by Alta Vista.
- Bay9 - shopping search
engine
- BizWeb - a web business
guide to 44140 companies listed in 202 categories
- BotSpot
- Search for robot spider search engines
- Britannica
- an Encyclopedia at your fingertips
- Buyer's Index
- Search 18,000 Web shopping sites and North American mail order catalogs
with over 153 million products
- Designer Index - Search for
Web Designers, Consultants, Programmers, and related Jobs
- Devsearch - For webdevelopers.
- Direct search - Confusing interface, but lot of links
to databases.
- DisInformation - (not really a common searchengine,
but worth a visit), subculture, propaganda, revolutionaries, censorship, counterculture,
counterintelligence, newspeak.
- Dot com Directory -
search businessess, startups, from Network Solutions vast database
- Earth Cam - locates
live images from indoor and outdoor Internet cameras.
- Environmental Web
Directory - comprehensive search engine specific to global environment,
organizations, causes, news
- Epicurious - search
for recipes
- Euro-investment.com - nice multilingual approach to
important finance facts like international share markets.
- Euronaut - seeks Europe,
powered by AltaVista.
- European Journalism Centre - Media News archive, searchable
index, also daily news per mail.
- Euroseek - Multilingual Europe Search Engine.
- FAST FTP Search v4.0
- The World's Largest File Search Engine
- Financewise - global and local financial SE. Every topic,
from risk management to syndicated finance and equities is indexed in depth,
with the contents of each site evaluated by editorial staff before sites are
allowed into FinanceWise's search index.
- FindLaw - internet
legal resources, but also a good general metasearch
- FindLink - small,
but growing search engine. Searches only in the category you select.
- Frequent Finders - Search for words in the actual URLs.
- Gee-Wiz! - shoppers
guide in the mold of Yahoo!, but not quite ready for prime time
- Global Business Information
Directory - also for small companies, has the option to search by region.
- Government Information Locator Service - (GILS), by
USA, has also own meta tags.
- HealthAtoZ - searches
Medical and Health related sites
- iAtlas - An advanced
search engine which allows users to obtain more relevant search results through
the use of geographic, demographic, and internet specific filters. Uses Inktomi
and InfoUSA.
- Infoplease Kids - Facts, Fun & Free Homework Help.
A safe & easy to use site for kids to find information from an encyclopedia,
almanacs, and dictionary.
- Information Please
- Almanac, encyclopedia and dictionary search.
- Job search engine - The Job-Search-Engine queries job
boards, in parallel and in real time, and returns a composite list of employment
opportunities available on the Internet.
- Jumbo - Files, games and
shareware, over 300.000.
- Keen.com - lists websites
of people that can answer your questions by phone
- Kids
Search - A portal designed exclusively for kids is fun, a safe place to
learn the net. Links to fun, educational websites.
- Linkmaster - media
search
- Logos
- multilingual dictionary
- Matilda - specializes in new websites - has geographicaly
localized versions of their portal
- MSN Encarta - Encarta Online specializes in connecting
information-seekers with relevant, high-quality knowledge. Whether it's
a school report or simply a personal interest to be explored, Encarta opens
the door to comprehensive information.
- My Simon Compares prices
of an item at a plethora of online merchants and deliver them up to you on
one page.
- Nerdworld - tries
to be the "Nerd Portal"
- News.com - technology
search engine run by Cnet
- Newsbot - a news search engine, powered by Hotbot.
- Newsbreaker - a news search engine powered by Excite.
- One Stop Internet Shop - European Community trade info
centre, 11 languages available, 500.000 companies, all European funds, laws,
translation service, exhibitions, public TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) all
for free.
- Orientation - for outside US and W-Europe.
- Pathway Services - The Pathway Indexer is designed for
locating Federal government information on the Internet.
- Peekaboo - information
and travel directory and search for States around the New England area. Lodging,
dining, etc.
- Présence Web - The domain name search engine
- Rambler.ru - Russian search engines.
- Research it - Great for finding reference material,
phone #s, addresses, encyclopedia, dictionary, thesarus, all one one page
- Richsurf - A Chinese search engine.
- Rock Yahoo - Music Yahoo
category.
- SearchHound -
Child-Safe Search Engine. Blocks out adult content. Search for websites, stocks,
people, entertainment, software, and more all at once.
- SearchUK - A grouping feature also allows results to
be reorganized by or grouped by domain class, such as commercial, academic
or governmental. Clustering options appear at the top of results pages, while
grouping options appear at the bottom.
- Shareware.com
- Cnet's search engine for software
- Sprinks.com - powered by Direct Hit and
Inktomi, directory links are all from paid advertisers
- Study the web - a learning
search engine features lots of content in a searchable directory for students.
- Suite101 - a Vancouver-based search engine where members
can post topics, and others can respond.
- Sympatico-Lycos - Canadian
search engine powered by Lycos
- TechWeb - technology
search engine by Internet.com
- Thunderstone
- This is an index of sites not pages. It is very good at finding companies
and organizations by purpose, product, subject matter, or location. This engine
attempts to focus on the quality of answers, not the quantity.
- UKMax - powered by Inktomi,
with Direct Hit for the UK.
- USA Online - search
for businesses by State, or Category.
- U.S. Business Advisor Search of GovBot Database - The
GovBot has gathered over 535,000 web pages from government sites around the
American country.
- Webdata - Searches multiple Web databases.
- WebSitez - Search engine for domain name addresses
- What`s new - new pages on the net.
- WhatsNu - search engine
filters web site listings by date/category
- What`s new too - new pages on the net.
- WhoWere?
- directory for Personal Homepages from the Lycos network. Able to search
other online communities too!
- WholeNetDirectory
- search for directories of popular categories . . . good but annoying pop-up
windows
- World Pages - search for businesses, people
- Yack - Internet Program
Guide, find upcoming web events, Worldwide IRC Chat searchengine
- YellowPages - You are supposed to find what you seek.
- ZdNet - search for software,
technology
Directories
and Indexes
- 7in1 Web Directories
- 700 Best websites - find great web sites in 28 popular categories
- About.com - and excellent directory
- Aeiwi - good searchable
web Index
- All-in-One - list of over 500
search engines, directories and indexes that can be used (one at a time)
- AllySubmit - Family friendly web
directory.
- Beaucoup - a search
engine directory, over 2,500 listed!
- Click Here to Find - categorized
links and a search engine
- ComStart Network - Internet
directory of sites geared to entertainment, sports, finance, music and schools.
Looking for editors to review and maintain the database and host chats
- Gimpsy - searchable directory using
activity words . . . such as "buy books", "build houses",
"meet people", etc.
- Go Guides - Infoseek user-contributed
directory.
- Hotrate.com - Pays editors for site
contributions.
- LookSmart - Smart directory, searchable
- MavicaNet - Multilingual catalogue
of Internet resources, edited by volunteer browsers.
- NationalDirectory
- a good searchable directory
- Netbreach - A family friendly web
directory.
- OneKey - A database of kid safe sites
with sites in over 500 categories.
- OneMission.com - One of the first
NewHoo-inspired sites.
- Open Directory Project
- also referred to as "DMOZ" supplies catagorical website listings
that are used by many search engines such as AOL Netfind, Netscape, IOport
(to name a few) to find listings in a more explicit fashion.
- Pengs.com - Kid safe directory and search
engine -24hr weather and news, Free email accounts, webpage counters, more
- PlanetClick - User contributed
sites and ratings.
- Quiver - Human powered directory. Also
includes a browser plug-in called the Qbar.
- Rex - Directories.
- Saluki Search - Family friendly
directory for families, teachers, schools, and kids.
- Searchlite - A family-friendly
directory and a separate section with links to news sites.
- Searchport - Family friendly
directory, searchable. Many links to sites for talk and chat.
- Sites2Surf - Family safe web directory.
- Snap LiveDirectory - User-contributed
front end to Snap's directory.
- Splat Search - Web directory.
There's an "family safe" option for searches.
- Spyweb - a new search engine, new concept for websearchers,
but framed and slow.
- SurfSafely - Family
friendly web directory - child safe - An index open only to PICS rated sites
enabling informed content selection using free parental controls already built
into most major browsers.
- The Net 1 - a searchable
directory
- WWW Virtual Library - The oldest catalog
of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and the Web itself.
Run by a loose confederation of volunteers, who compile pages of key links
for particular areas in which they are expert.
- Wherewithal - Pays editors for
site contributions.
- WordScapes
- has a nice list of search engines and directories
- Yahoo - the Granddaddy of the web directories, seach
is powered by Google
- Zeal.com - Web directory and search engine
built by Internet users. Find ratings, reviews, and websites.
- Zerx - You can view sites
related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site.
- zipee.com
- their directory is alright, but don't waste your time with their home page
Education
Search Engines
- StudyWeb - A collection of over
128,000 Research Quality URLs.
- SearchEdu.com - Over 20 million
university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity.
- Education Planet - The K-12
Education Web Guide and portal helps teachers, students and parents find
quality educational resources, including top Web sites and 16,000 lesson
plans. Search from over 300,000 quality educational resources .
- Education World - Education World
(R) Search Engine. Where Educators Go to Learn. The surfing is over. Here
you will find the best education links and original content the Net has
to offer.
- Furbello.com - Furbello.Com provides
an interactive online learning index for Internet users seeking guidance
and information about online learning resources.
- ERIC - Eric
is the world's largest source of education information, with more than 1
million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research
and practice.
- Federal Resources for Educational
Excellence - Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across
the U.S. Federal government .
- Bigchalk - K-12 education site
offers resources for teachers, library media specialists, parents and students
with online periodicals, state standards, homework help, lesson plans, test
practice and school technology guides.
Encyclopedia
Search Engines
- Britanica.com - The world's
best Web sites, plus magazines, books, and the complete Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Encyclopedia.com - More than
14,000 articles from The Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Third
Edition have been assembled to provide free, quick and useful information
on almost any topic.
- Encyclopedia Mythica
- A on-line encyclopedia on mythology, folklore, and legend.
- MSN Encarta Online -
Home for the Encarta Concise Encyclopedia, the Encarta Schoolhouse educational
site and Encarta Explore, an ever-changing resource for exploration and
discovery.
Entertainment
Search Engines
- 123cam.com -123cam.com is a search engine
directory about web cams and live video from the entire world Geographical
research or by themes: sea, mountain, city, strange, traffic, weather report.
- webcam-list.com - Another web cam
search engine from all over the world
- Chat Seek - Chat Seek! The chat only
search engine. All topic areas. Add your chat site instantly!.
- Celebhoo - Celebrity search engine
with thousands of reviewed links to official and unofficial celebrity fan
pages.
- Internet Movie Database - The IMDb is
the ultimate online movie database covering over 200,000 titles and 750,000
people with facts, trivia, reviews plus multimedia links from the earliest
films to the latest releases.
- Gamebot - All web game search engine
for game demos, cheats, reviews, news, patches, and other important info at
Gamebot.com.
- Musicseek - The Online MP3 & Music
Online Search Engine. The easiest way to find MP3s on the Internet.
- MusicTracer.com - The Internet's
Collection of Music Links. Find a link to any band you are looking for instantly!
- Scour - Scour is a broadband entertainment
portal on the Internet. That means it helps you find (almost) every kind of
music (including streaming radio stations), movies and videos from all over
the Web.
Health Search Engines
- MedExplorer - Search peer reviewed
health and medical websites.The best medical searh engine on the net.
- HealthAtoZ - Search over 50,000
professionally reviewed health & medical Internet resources.
- Health Finder - A gateway consumer
health and human services information web site (basically a health search
engine), created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
- Health on the Net -Search for healthcare
websites, hospitals.
- StayHealthy.com - Your premier
health and wellness portal, offers diverse and comprehensive Internet health
and wellness resources.
- AllHealth.com - Top quality health
search engine.
- Med 411 - Search engine of sites
for medical professionals.
- MedSeek: Directory
of Hospitals - The largest directory of American hospitals on the net
(if you don't no the full hospital name, entering part name is alright).
- MedHelp International
- Search the largest patient library on the Net comprising: articles, patient
support groups, glossary, Q&A.
- Combined Health Information
Database - CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of
the Federal Government. This database provides titles, abstracts, and availability
information for health information and health education resources.
- On-line Medical Dictionary
- A searchable dictionary of terms from medicine and related fields.
- Health Guide - Health site covering
mental health, senior health and family health.
- Healthtouch
- Search enables you to find information about more than 10,000 prescription
and over-the-counter medications.
- OnHealth - A personal guide to
health, offering local health guides, discussion groups, live broadcasts
and disease information.