Some search engines ...
aka crawlers, spiders, bots, and in some cases, directories
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
- About.com - offers
"guides" to original content in various areas
- AllTheWeb - good
comprehensive/relevant results; try after Google
- AltaVista - web's
oldest crawler; now 3rd after Google and AllTheWeb
- AOL search - commercial;
part of AOL online services - results based on Google
- Ask Jeeves (aka Ask.com)
- known for "plain English" question format
- Dogpile - metasearch;
compiles results from other search engines
- Excite - current
focus is more portal than search engine
- Go - formerly Infoseek;
powered by Google
- Google
- web's most popular, leading search engine; many others use
for results
- HotBot - provides
"opinions" based on Google, AllTheWeb/FAST, Inktomi and Teoma
- Inktomi - second-oldest
web crawler; now owned by Yahoo
- Kanoodle - an
advertising site; results are by paid placement
- LookSmart - human-compiled
for relevancy of results
- Lycos - around since
1994; results now based on AllTheWeb
- Mamma - metasearch;
compiles results from other search engines
- MSN search - suggests
"popular topics" related to your search
- Netscape search
- results based on Google; owned by AOL
- Open Directory (formerly NewHoo)
- volunteer-based relevancy results; recommend using Google's Directory
instead
- Overture (formerly
GoTo) - contains paid-placement results and ads
- Search 123 -
a "pay-per-click" engine that compiles results based on usage
- Search.com - compiles
results from other search engines, inc. Google, Ask, LookSmart
- Search Internet - multiple
options for relevancy categorization
- Teoma - by Ask Jeeves;
suggests ways to narrow your search
- Vivisimo - uses "clustering"
to categorize results
- Webcrawler -
provides results from other crawlers
- Wisenut - crawler-based
search
- Yahoo - web's oldest
"directory," originally compiled by humans; now a crawler
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