| Meta Search Engines | Last changed 7th October 2007 |
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Uses page ranking, where a high rank is obtainded by being referenced from many other pages | |
| Searches are NOT case sensitive | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also OR |
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Clusty | Uses velocity search engine, then groups similar results together into clusters. |
| Restrict by "Language" and "file type" | ||
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Cha Cha | Lets you do a GUIDED search where a real person asks you questions to identify the results you need. |
| Search Web, News, Images, Video, Audio | ||
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Dog Pile | Queries about 12 other search engines |
| Search using "Any", "All", or "Exact phrase" | ||
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Ask Jeeves | Uses the "Teoma" search engine |
| Uses "Natural Language Technology" to guess the context and so determin relevancy | ||
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Beaucoup | |
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Excite | Uses editors to review sites |
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND OR NOT |
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ix Quick | Queries about 10 other search engines |
| Searches are case sensitive, but allows "*" as a wildcard | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND, OR, NOT, NEAR |
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kartoo | A Visual Meta Search Engine |
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") | ||
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KillerInfo | Meta Search with over 260 data sources |
| Provideds a results guide | ||
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Mamma | |
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Yureka | Uses the MetaCrawler search engine |
| Search by <Word or Phrase> , <Match or Begin with> and <Include or Exclude> | ||
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C/Net | Queries about 4 other search engines |
| Search using "web pages", "prices", "headlines" or "Advice and Answers" | ||
| Other Search Engines | Last changed 10th January 2005 |
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About | Returns summary |
| Searches Contents | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND OR NOT |
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After Vote | Search Web, Images, Video |
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All the Web | Search for News, Video, Images and Sound |
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Alta Vista | Offers Language Translation ( 36 languages ) |
| Searches Contents by default but also Domain:, Host:, link:, Title: and URL: Also select Web, Images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory and News |
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| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND, OR, NOT, NEAR and by Language |
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Altavista UK | As Above |
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Ditto | A visual search engine |
| Search by <Web> , <Image> or <Shopping> | ||
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Dmoz | The Open Directory Project |
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Euro Pages | A European Business Directory |
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Find Info | U.S. Based |
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IPL | Internet Public Library - Run by the University of Michigan |
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Lycos | Returns summary |
| Searches Contents ( or Title or URL from a seletion page ) | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND, OR, NOT, ADJ, NEAR, FAR, & LANGUAGE |
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Mirago | Geographically Relevant Search |
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND, OR, NOT, ADJ, NEAR, FAR, & LANGUAGE |
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MSN | U.S. Based |
| Search by Region and File type | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") | ||
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Northern Light | Searches Text (default), Title (title:) or URL (url:) |
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") | ||
| AND OR NOT ADJ, and Wild cards single letter(%) many letters(*) | ||
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Overture | A Subsiduary of Yahoo |
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Search UK | Returns abstract |
| Searches by Commercial | Academic | Government | Non-profit | All | ||
| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") also AND OR NOT |
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UK Plus | Uses the Infoseek search engine |
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Technorati | Searches web blogs |
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WebCrawler | Returns summary |
| Searches about 12 other search engines | ||
| Search using "Any", "All", or "Exact phrase" | ||
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Yahoo UK | Returns description |
| Searches Contents (default), Title (t:), or URL (u:) |
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| Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") Wildcard (*) | ||
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More Search Engines |
| Duplicated Search Methods | Last changed 10th January 2005 |
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Geona | Powered by Dmoz |
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Go | Powered by Yahoo |
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Hotbot | Powered by Lycos |
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Search AOL | Powered by Google |
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Searchuno | A UK Web directory with no banners. Powered by Dmoz |
| Other Related Sites | Last changed 23rd August 2003 |