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Search Engines |
Great Resources About Search Engines:
Search Engines (Sorted by my personal preference, then alphabetical):
- Google
- Current record for best success rate and largest search engine on the Web; even used by & a partner of Yahoo now
- Yahoo
- Directory compiled by humans - Currently the most popular search service
- AllTheWeb (aka FAST Search)
- Consistently has one of the largest indexes of the Web. Also offers large multimedia and mobile/wireless Web indexes available from its site.
- Open Directory
- Directory complied by volunteer human editors; Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, Hotbot, AOL, & Netscape use Open Directory in their results
- Electric Library
- searches using newspapers, magazines, 2 international newswires, classic books, maps, photos, literature & art
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Sponsored by the Library of California
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- Altavista
- Consistently among the largest search engines; also uses Ask Jeeves, LookSmart, & Open Directory
- Ask Jeeves
- human service with goals to find exact page with answers; used by AltaVista
- TeOma (Direct Hit)
- uses what people pick the most in its search results at Direct Hit, & HotBot as well as its other partner sites
- Excite
- One of the more popular search engines with a fairly large index; owns Magellan & WebCrawler
- Go
- Portal by Infoseek & Disney, along with directory compiled by humans
- HotBot
- Favored search engine for it's many power searching features; now owned by Lycos
- Lycos
- Switched from search engine to a human powered directory similar to Yahoo in April, 1999. Results from open directory, and Fast Search with some Direct Hits. Acquired HotBot which runs separately
- MSN Search
- Second most popular search service, closet to Yahoo in popularity
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- College Searches
- universities, financial aid, resources and tips for the college bound
- Google Groups
- Newsgroups
- FTP Sites
- Pointers To Monster FTP Sites... Deep Wells Of Run-Time Data
- Gateway to Library Catalogs
- Search Library of Congress Catalog and those at many other institutions
- Map Quest
- search for data, maps, and directions by Country, State, Town
- MedBot
- medical search engines
- OneKey
- KidSafe Search Engine
- Teachers Resources
- searches, lesson plans, tips, etc
- WWWomen
- search directory for women resources
- Yahooligans
- KidSafe Search Engine by Yahoo
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