| An
alphabetical listing of some of the most popular and effective
search engines, with links and a brief description of
each. |
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| AlltheWeb
- http://www.alltheweb.com/ |
| A combination commercial
and general search engine. |
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| AltaVista
- http://www.altavista.com/ |
| Now owned by Overture,
AltaVista is one of the largest and oldest search
engines on the web, this search engine has listed categories
as well as general searching capabilities. |
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| AOL
(America Online) - http://search.aol.com/ |
| One of the largest internet
conglomerations, AOL allows for standard searches
based on keywords. |
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| Ask
Jeeves - http://www.ask.com/ |
| A natural text search engine,
this search engine allows a user to type in a sentence
and produces results according to the keywords in that
sentence. |
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| Biography.com
- http://www.biography.com/search/index.html |
| Run by the cable channel
of the same name, users can search over 25,000 of the
greatest lives, past and present. |
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| dmoz
- http://www.dmoz.org/ |
| Open Directory Project.
Currently has "over 3.8 million sites - 55,317 editors
- over 460,000 categories". |
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| Dogpile
- http://www.dogpile.com/ |
| An InfoSpace
company, Dogpile returns results from the following
search engines: Google,
Yahoo!,
AltaVista, Ask
Jeeves, About
(http://www.about.com/),
LookSmart
(http://www.looksmart.com/),
Overture, Teoma,
and FindWhat
(http://www.findwhat.com/). |
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| Excite
- http://www.excite.com/ |
| Excite is a destination
site that offers world-class content and functionality
from over 75 leading sources. Excite has over
14 million monthly unique users and is the leading personalization
portal on the Internet. |
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| Go2Net
- http://www.go2net.com/ |
| An InfoSpace
powered site, so results will be similar to other InfoSpace
controlled search engines. |
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| Google
- http://www.google.com/ |
| The most popular search
engine on the Internet today. Since they don't include
pay-for-placement results in the main search results listing
(instead placing them in a clearly defined area), Google
provides very relevant matches to your keywords. |
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| InfoSpace
- http://www.infospace.com/ |
| Primarily a provider of
wireless and Internet software and application services
for other companies, the InfoSpace homepage is
a Yellow and White pages search, though they also have
a Web
search. |
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| Ixquick
- http://www.ixquick.com/ |
| Ixquick searches
many popular search engines all at once and provides fairly
good results. |
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| Lycos
- http://www.lycos.com/ |
| Terra Lycos's mission
is to become the world's leading online destination. Through
a unique platform that combines the benefits of the convergence
of Internet services and next-generation communication
technologies with the broadest, most comprehensive array
of popular products and services, Terra Lycos
provides users a compelling network of Web brands and
gives advertisers access to a vast and diverse audience. |
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| Mamma
- http://www.mamma.com/ |
| Claims to be the "Mother
of All Search Engines". Mamma.com is recognized
as one of the top Meta Search Engines on the Internet
today. Mamma.com, through the Mamma.com
site and its vast network, presently services over 7.9
million unique users per month. |
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| Metacrawler
- http://www.metacrawler.com/ |
| An InfoSpace
powered site. The "MetaSpy" feature allows you
to see what other people are searching for at the same
time. |
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| MSN
Search - http://search.msn.com/ |
| Microsoft's search
engine, and part of the MSN package, they proudly
proclaim "More people use MSN Search than any other
search service", citing Jupiter Media Metrix
U.S., July, 2002 as the source for that claim. |
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| NBCi
- http://www.nbci.com/ |
| An InfoSpace/NBC
collaboration. News, sports and more compose this general
homepage and search engine. |
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| Northern
Light - http://www.northernlight.com/ |
| Northern Light (by divine,
inc.) uses patented classification intelligence and
precision relevancy ranking to deliver accurate, relevant
results from their Special Collection of over 7100 respected
full-text publications, which are organized into Custom
Search Folders so that users don't have to waste time
weeding through useless information. |
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| Overture
- http://www.overture.com/ |
A search engine that ranks
according to how much advertisers pay to have their site
listed higher than others. Overture search listings
appear on MSN, Yahoo!,
Lycos, AltaVista,
and InfoSpace.
(NOTE:
In a
press release, dated July 14, 2003, Yahoo!
announced they had signed a definitive agreement with
Overture to acquire the pay-for-placement based
search engine company. The acquisition is expected to
be completed by the fourth quarter of 2003. According
to a statement by Terry Semel, chairman and chief executive
officer, Yahoo! Inc., "The combined assets position
Yahoo! as the largest global player in the rapidly growing
Internet advertising sector.") |
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| Teoma
- http://www.teoma.com/ |
| Also known as Direct
Hit (http://www.directhit.com/)
and part of the Ask Jeeves
family, Teoma organizes sites into naturally
occurring communities that are about the subject of each
search query. Next, after identifying these communities,
Teoma analyzes the relationship of sites within
a community, ranking a site based on the number of same-subject
pages that reference it, among hundreds of other criteria.
Teoma recently received a relevance grade of
"A" by the industry publication Search Engine
Watch. Google, Yahoo!,
and MSN were the only other
engines to receive this score. |
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| WebCrawler
- http://www.webcrawler.com/ |
| A text indexed site powered
by Excite. |
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| Yahoo!
- http://www.yahoo.com/ |
A general search engine,
Yahoo! is one of the oldest on the web. Yahoo!
Inc. is a global Internet communications, commerce
and media company that offers a comprehensive branded
network of services.
(NOTE: In a press
release, dated July 14, 2003, Yahoo! announced
they had signed a definitive agreement with Overture
to acquire the pay-for-placement based search engine company.
The acquisition is expected to be completed by the fourth
quarter of 2003. According to a statement by Terry Semel,
chairman and chief executive officer, Yahoo! Inc., "The
combined assets position Yahoo! as the largest global
player in the rapidly growing Internet advertising sector.") |
