Search Engines

Most Frequently Used

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Human powered search service, directs to exact page to answer question.

Google

Google's index, comprised of more than 1 billion URLs, represents the most comprehensive collection of the most useful web pages on the Internet. It only produces results that match all of your search terms, either in the text of the page or in the text of the links pointing to the page.

Yahoo

Will default to simple AltaVista if no hits in Yahoo, ratings of Web sites, subject directory.

Other

All the Web

World's biggest search engine covering 200 million web pages, search results within 1 second. Updates and purges out of date web pages producing a high rate of relevancy.

DMOZ: Open Directory

Multitude of quality links, uses volunteer editors to catalog the web.

Excite

Keywords of 50 million web pages using 10 spiders, conceptual searching, subject directory.

GO.com

Allows field searches and allows you to refine your search.

HotBot

Full text of Web pages including most archived mailing lists.

INFOMINE

Scholarly Internet resource collections, 23,000+ sites.

Ixquick

Powerful metasearch engine, over 1,193,000 pages.

Lycos

Keywords, titles, headings and links of Web pages, subject directory.

MetaCrawler

Multi-threaded search engines search multiple search engines simultaneously.

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