The Major Search Engines
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Alta Vista
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Large, Comprehensive Index, finds obscure pages or topics
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Ask Jeeves
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Uses plain English questions
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Excite
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Incorporates news & sports scores into its answers
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FAST Search
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Formerly "All The Web", fastest growing engine
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Go/Infoseek!
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Consistent, quality responses to general and broad searches
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Hot Bot
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Popular with researchers due to consistent results
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iWon
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Gives away money
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Lycos
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Combines a directory with an index for interesting results
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Northern Light
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Groups results into related categories (folders)
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Raging Search
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Exactly the same as Altavista, but without the clutter
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Web Crawler
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Small, but less overwhelming for the beginner
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Web Top
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Incorporates news, sports and WAP information in results
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Directories
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About
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Human guides offer expert advice
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AOL Search
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Compiled by AOL Staffers for families
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King Arthur's Hall
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Directory of GLOW Region Businesses
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Look Smart
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Human-compiled sites with a good breakdown
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Open Directory
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Uses volunteers, each an expert in his/her area
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Snap
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Backed by NBC, uses paid humans to compile sites
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Yahoo
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The oldest and most popular directory online
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Pay-for-Placement Engines
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GoTo.com
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Very accurate for businesses or corporations
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Real Names
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Find official sites or corporations quickly
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Popularity Engines
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Direct Hit
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Based on link popularity, very accurate results
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Google!
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Also based on link popularity, good for general searches
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Who's Best?
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Search results are rated by visitors
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Meta Search Engines
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Dogpile
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User-customizable list of engines to search
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MetaCrawler
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Oldest meta search service, very fast response
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Mamma
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Sends request to all the majors
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ProFusion
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Customizable, with broken link detection
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Search.com
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Searches web-wide and also some technology search engines
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Surfwax
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Removes duplicates, provides context highlighting - great results
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Specialty Search Engines
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Deja
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Formerly Dejanews, good consumer information
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NewsLink
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Search newspapers, wires and other sources
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News Bot
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Search online news sources - good technology news
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Business Web
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Business News Search
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Internet Movie Database
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Search actors, directors, scripts
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Nerd World
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Get your techno-geek information
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Scour.Net
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Music & Multi-Media Downloads
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Tucows
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Free Software Downloads
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MESA Email
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Email Directory
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Canada.com
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If it's in Canada, find it here, eh?
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EuroSeek
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Search Europe and European Web Sites
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Big Yellow
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East Coast US White & Yellow Pages
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Switchboard
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Searchable US, Canada White Pages
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The Ultimates
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White, Yellow Pages plus Trip Planner
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Apartments
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Looking for an Apartment?
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Career Builder
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How about a Job?
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FindLaw
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Legal Search Engine - Case Law
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Other Search Engines
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1Blink.com
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All4One
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Frame Search
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Galaxy
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Infohiway
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Internet Public Library
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MetaGopher
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Prime Search
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REX
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Starting Point
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Use It!
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