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Search Engines

Here’s a small sample of the thousands of search engines/directories and metacrawlers available.  A number of the search engines listed are not ‘true’ search engines but are more accurately termed “directories” and are compiled by humans.

For searches specific to countries/regions, try ‘Search Engines Worldwide’ (there’s a link toward the foot of this page).
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MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES:

NAME

Comment (if any)

URL (Click on the URLs below)

AllTheWeb.com (FAST Search)

Its index is one of the Web’s largest.

http://www.alltheweb.com/

AltaVista

Crawler-based search engine; opened in 1995.

http://uk.altavista.com

Ask Jeeves

Search service compiled by humans - ask it a question.

http://www.askjeeves.com/

Google

Largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based search engine. Superb.

http://www.google.com/

HotBot

Owned by Lycos.

http://hotbot.lycos.com/

Inktomi

Inktomi index powers several other services.

http://www.inktomi.com/

LookSmart

Directory compiled by humans.

http://www.looksmart.com/

Lycos

Web directory, similar to Yahoo.

http://www.lycos.com/

MSN Search

Powered by LookSmart.

http://search.msn.com/

Netscape Search

Does a good job at listing “official websites”.

http://search.netscape.com/

Open Directory

Uses volunteer editors to catalogue the Web.

http://dmoz.org/

Yahoo

Largest human-compiled guide to the Web.

http://www.yahoo.com/

OTHER GLOBAL SEARCH ENGINES:

NAME

Comment (if any)

URL (Click on the URLs below)

About.com

Features hundreds of ‘guides’.

http://www.about.com/

Aeiwi

Here, you click on words to build your search - read the instructions.

http://www.aeiwi.com/

Britannica.com

Encyclopaedia Britannica content and links to top web sites.

http://www.britannica.com/

Dogpile

Meta search engine.

http://www.dogpile.com/

Excite

Dominated by paid listings.

http://www.excite.com/

iWon

 

http://home.iwon.com/

Links2Go

Uses artificial intelligence techniques to gather information.

http://www.links2go.com/

Northern Light

 

http://www.northernlight.com/

Searchalot

 

http://www.searchalot.com/

Search King

Searchable directory of web sites.

http://www.searchking.com/

WebWombat

Anzac page-lister plus global.

http://www.webwombat.com.au/

WebCrawler

First opened to the public in April, 1994.

http://www.webcrawler.com/

CHILD-FRIENDLY SEARCH ENGINES

NAME

Comment (if any)

URL (Click on the URLs below)

CyberSleuth Kids

Seach guide for what the Americans refer to as the “K-12 student”.

http://cybersleuth-kids.com/

Family Friendly Search

Searches Yahooligans, AOL Kids, Kids Click and Saluki Search.

http://familyfriendlysearch.com/

ithaki 4 Kids

Powerful metasearch engine - 8 kids’ search engines.

http://www.ithaki.net/kids/

KidsClick!

Web search for kids by librarians.

http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsC lick!/

MSN.Encarta

Encarta encyclopaedia.

http://encarta.msn.com/

SurfMonkey

Tools for protecting children while they are online

http://www.surfmonkey.com/

Yahooligans

Web guide for kids.

http://www.yahooligans.com/

 

 

 

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