The Best Search Engines - A valuable guide provided by UC Berkeley.
Search Engine Guide - A
resource for identifying which search engines use which strategies.
SearchEngineGuide.com
SearchEngineWatch.com
All The Web - Claims to be one of the most up to date search
engines.
Altavista - Indexes every word in
millions of Web pages and 14,000 Usenet newsgroups.
Quotation marks are critical if searching a phrase, e.g. ("________").
Ask.com - Allows one to search by asking a question. Also,
allows one to preview selected sites in results without having to click on them. Try it!
Boolistic - Generates a unique search diagram.
Dogpile
- Searches 11 different Search Engines, Usenet, FTP addresses and search
engine news wires. Compiles results into one list. Links to most-used sites
such as Amazon, CBS Sportsline, WinZip, etc.
Excite - Conceptual searching
of the Web, finds not only your keyword, but concepts related to it.
Google - a popular search engine. To many it is the
pre-eminent Web search engine.
Google Scholar - Google Scholar enables you to search
specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints,
abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find
articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint
repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.
HotBot - Fast. Searches
entire Web. Ability to limit searches to Web pages that contain specific
technologies sucha as JavaScript or Shockware.
Kartoo - Shows size and relationship between sites.
Lycos - Simple searches on
common topics. Includes "Top 5% Sites" list.
Metacrawler - Searches
several major search engines and subject directories; collates results into
a single relevance-ranked list.
Mamma.com - Claims to be among the top three meta-search
engines.
Omni Medical Search - A metasearch
engine that searches other search engines, databases and websites to present the top results
for your medical topic.
ProFusion - Searches 9 search engines
or the 3 best that support a query. Results are presented in relevance-ranked
order.
Switchboard.com - An engine that
searches for people, businesses and information like directory assistance.
Webcrawler - Searches
subjects in an orderly and logical manner. Rates the results. Slower than
most other Search Engines.
Wise Nut - A LookSmart search engine.
Yahoo - A directory of
the Internet. Organized by topics, lists 80,000+ Web sites divided among 14
top catagories, e.g., art, computers, health, recreation, etc.
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