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About.com |
| "About.com, formerly the Mining Company, features hundreds of ""guides"" offering original content in various areas. While About.com isn't really a search service, the guides do have extensive links to other sites -- not to mention top-notch content of their own." |
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AllSearchEngines.com |
| The name says it all -- links to all search engines, or at least a whole lot! Browse categories to find search engines, don't search. Searching simply brings back general results from a paid listings search engine. |
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AllTheWeb.com (FAST) |
| An excellent crawler-based search engine, All The Web provides both comprehensive coverage of the web and outstanding relevancy. If you tried Google and didn't find it, All The Web should probably be next on your list. Indeed, it's a first stop search engine, for some. |
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AltaVista |
| "AltaVista is the oldest crawler-based search engine on the web. It opened in December 1995 and for several years was the ""Google"" of its day, in terms of providing relevant results and having a loyal group of users that loved the service." |
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ANZWERS |
| A New Zealand/Australia Search Engine |
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AOL Search |
| AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index. Indeed, the same search on Google and AOL Search will come up with very similar matches |
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Asiaco |
| Asia search engine |
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AsianDragons |
| General info/travel/lifestyle search engine for 20 Asian Nations |
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Ask Jeeves |
| "Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the ""natural language"" search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything. In reality, technology wasn't what made Ask Jeeves perform so well. Behind the scenes, the company at one point had about 100 editors who monitored search logs." |
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Britannica.com |
| Links to top web sites and content from the Encyclopedia Britannica, in one place. |
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Business.com |
| The leading business search engine and directory designed to help its users find the companies, products, services, and information they need to make the right business decisions |
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Direct Search |
| A large collection of specialized search tools that often contain info that is hidden to search engines. Lovingly compiled by search expert Gary Price. |
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Excite |
| Excite results are dominated by paid listings from Overture, with non-paid results from Inktomi. Before Dec. 2001, Excite was a crawler-based search engine that gathered its own results. Excite was originally launched in late 1995. It grew quickly in prominence and consumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, and WebCrawler in November 1996. Magellan was discontinued in April 2001. WebCrawler continues to operate as a separate service, but it provides the same results at the Excite.com site itself. In Nov. 2001, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace, which also operates meta search engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler. |
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Google |
| "Twice-voted ""Most Outstanding Search Engine"" by Search Engine Watch readers, Google has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web. The crawler-based service provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy. It's highly recommended as a first stop in your hunt for whatever you are looking for." |
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HotBot |
| When HotBot debuted in May 1996, it gained a strong following among serious searchers for the quality and comprehensiveness of its crawler-based results, which were provided by Inktomi, at the time. It also caught the attention of experienced web users and techies, especially for the unusual colors and interface it continues to sport today. |
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Itools |
| Itools is an all-in-one search page that you can use to find Web sites, phone numbers, discussion groups, addresses, word definitions, translations, the latest news, quotations, encyclopedia entries, and more. |
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LookSmart |
| LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. The company does operate its own web site, but this really isn't intended for the public to use. Instead, similar to Inktomi, LookSmart provides its results to other search engines that need listings. |
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Lycos |
| Lycos is one of the oldest search engines on the web, launched in 1994. It ceased crawling the web for its own listings in April 1999 and instead uses crawler-based results provided by FAST (see above). So why bother with Lycos rather than using FAST's own AllTheWeb.com site? You might like some of the features that Lycos provides. |
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MSN Search |
| "Microsoft is known for constantly reworking its software products until they get them right, and MSN Search is a shining example of the company putting that same effort into an online product. In particular, the company has its own team of editors that monitors the most popular searches being performed and then hand-picks sites that are believed to be the most relevant. After performing a search, ""Popular Topics"" shown below the search box on the results page are also suggestions built largely by editors to guide you into making a more refined search. When appropriate, search results may also feature links to encyclopedia content from Microsoft Encarta or news headlines, at the top of the page." |
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Overture |
| Formerly called GoTo until late 2001, Overture is an extremely popular paid placement search engine that provides ads to many of the search engines listed above. |
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Scholar Google |
| Find academic articles fast! |
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Search Engine Colossus |
| Lists search engines worldwide. |
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Search Engine Directory - by Country |
| Find country-specific search-engines fast with this site! |
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SearchEngineGuide: Search Engine Directory |
| Guide to search engines, portals, and directories. |
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Teoma |
| "Teoma is a crawler-based search engine owned by Ask Jeeves. It has an extremely small index of the web, only about 1/10th the size of crawler-competitors Google, AllTheWeb.com, Inktomi and AltaVista. However, being large doesn't make much of a difference when it comes to popular queries, and Teoma's won praise for its relevancy since it appeared in 2000. Some people also like its ""Refine"" feature, which offers suggested topics to explore after you do a search. The ""Resources"" section of results is also unique, pointing users to page that specifically serve as link resources about various topics. Teoma was purchased by Ask Jeeves in September 2001 and also provides some results to that web site." |
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The Business Search Engine |
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Web Wombat |
| Search engine which lists pages from sites within the .au (Australia) and .nz (New Zealand) domains. It also provides global coverage. |
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WebCrawler |
| WebCrawler is essentially a copy of the Excite service, above. WebCrawler was originally a completely independent service, opened to the public on April 20, 1994. It was started as a research project at the University of Washington. America Online purchased it in March 1995 and was the online service's preferred search engine until Nov. 1996. That was when Excite, a WebCrawler competitor, acquired the service. |
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WiseNut |
| Like Teoma, WiseNut is a crawler-based search engine that attracted attention when it appeared on the scene in 2001. Like Teoma, WiseNut features good relevancy. Unlike Teoma, WiseNut has a large database, making it nearly as comprehensive as Google, AllTheWeb.com and Inktomi. However, the WiseNut database has not been refreshed since June 2001. This incredible staleness should be corrected in late 2002, when WiseNut's owner LookSmart is promising to revamp the engine. LookSmart bought WiseNut in April 2002. If the revamp happens, then WiseNut may deliver on its initial promise. |
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Worldwide Web Research Tools |
| Comprehensive list of search engines, web directories, and on-line databases |
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Yahoo |
| "Launched in 1994, Yahoo is the web's oldest ""directory,"" a place where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to using Google's crawler-based listings for its main results." |
