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Search Engines
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Description
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Google www.google.com/
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Search engine that ranks web sites by its popularity of other sites
linking to them. Excellent for general searches. Graphic, PDF, in
site and other advanced feature searching available.
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Yahoo www.yahoo.com/ or
search.yahoo.com/
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Yahoo! is one of the best known and most popular Internet
portals. Originally just a subject directory, it now is a search
engine, directory, and portal. Includes the Inktomi database which
previously included Alta Vista and All The Web search engines.
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Ask Jeeves www.askjeeves.com
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Ask Jeeves uses crawler-based technology. These results come from
the Teoma search engine that it owns. Ask Jeeves is doing innovative
things with invisible tabs and with what it calls Smart Search.
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MSN http://search.msn.com/
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One of the largest of the Web search engines. The basic search
screen only shows a few options, but the Advanced Search link has
a full range of search features displayed.
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Exalead
www.exalead.com/search/
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Exalead is a new beta search engine from France, it has an
interesting and different approach to presenting results. Key
search features include truncation, proximity, and some nice
sorting of results.
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Gigablast www.gigablast.com/
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Gigablast has one single database of indexed Web pages including
PDF, Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, PostScript, and Excel files. No
additional databases or portal features are available at this time.
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AllTheWeb.com alltheweb.com
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Powered by Yahoo, you may find AllTheWeb a lighter, more
customizable and pleasant "pure search" experience than you get at
Yahoo itself. The focus is on web search, but news, picture,
video, MP3 and FTP search are also offered.
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HotBot www.hotbot.com/
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HotBot provides access to the web's three major crawler-based search
engines: Yahoo, Google and Teoma.It's a fast, way to get different
web search "opinions" in one place.It has power searching features
such as date limit, media type, location, person, the URL.
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Lycos
www.lycos.com/
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Oldest search service with a directory. Features custom searches,
community guides, image and sound gallery...
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Wise Nut
www.wisenut.com/
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This search engine has its own database. It features some
automatically-generated, related searches, known as WiseGuide
categories. It lacks full Boolean and most advanced search features.
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Global Searching
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Description
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Search Engine Watch
Links
searchenginewatch.com/links/
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Search Engine Watch lists some top choices in various categories.
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Search Engine
Colossus www.searchenginecolossus.com/
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Search Engine Colossus offers links to search engines from countries
around the world. An international directory of search engines, this
site is searchable by country or category (Academic, Business,
Christian, For Women, Youth, etc.). Each search engine listing
provides a link to the site, a short description including what
languages are used, and a point of origin.
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European
Search Engines www.netmasters.co.uk/european
_search_engines/
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European Search Engines Focuses on Europe, often providing more
resources in a country than others. Also includes handy links to
national newspapers.
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Ask Jeeves for Kids
www.ajkids.com/
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First searches a database of selected sites arranged as questions;
then conducts a parallel search of encyclopedias, Yahooligans and
Education World.
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Kid's Tools for
Searching the Internet http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Kid's Search Tools
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Puts the best children's search engines and directories onto a
single page.( KidsClick!, Yahooligans!, Education World, Awesome
Library, StudyWEB, Ask Jeeves for Kids, Searchopolis, Berit's Best
Sites,...)
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