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Search Engine and Directory Lists Last Updated: 21 November 2005
This is not an exhaustive list of Search Engines - of which there are thousands - but it's a useful snapshot of what's out there and frequently used. A handful of sites
provide comprehensive lists of search engines and directories, but Search Engine Colossus
is probably the best in this regard, with search functions and links to Search Engines in 259 countries and territories around the world. Other sites present Search Engine lists
for specific regions; if you're searching for engines in a particular region, try typing the region name + search engine, as in: "Middle East search engine".
There are books and several sites listed at right that provide informative tutorials on Search Engine operations, site optimization, and submission
procedures.
Major engines now charge a fee to index commercial sites or to ensure placement in query results, and there is much debate about whether this
will have negative impact on "real results". For an inciteful article on that subject, see The straight story on search engines, by Laurianne McLaughlin, or read it in the July 2002
issue of PC World (pp.115-124) - the specialized search list at right is partially culled from McLaughlin's article.
Metasearch Engines
Top Rated
Dogpile
Queries top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, Teoma, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more,
to fetch the best results from the combined pool of search engines.
KartOO
Aggregates search results from several sources and presents results in a visual map or list interface.
Mamma
Simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database,
eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance.
SurfWax
Targeted multi-source search using only sources (e.g., any Web site, database, intranet files, etc.), specific to a domain or topic. This improves search precision and saves time (results from sources outside the are not included).
Vivisimo
Organizes search engine results from any of dozens of searchable repositories, including the open Web
and document collections of several thousand items; sends search query to multiple sources, removes duplicates, collates
results and clusters them.
Vroosh Canadian site: metasearches news, online auctions, MP3s, books & FTP; Ask-a-Question in 7 languages.
WindSeek
HALMSTAD, SWEDEN 25 March 2004
Pulls results from many of the major search engines simultaneously with lightning speed and accuracy. Currently WindSeek.com in beta-test mode and will improve
continuously during the next weeks when more features will be added.
FindArticles* A vast archive of published articles you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals.
Itools Search, translation, research, financial, map & Internet tools.
Ixquick Web, MP3, news and picture metasearches in your choice of 12 SE's and 13 languages.
Lasoo Search 25M business and Web sites world-wide by keyword, city, state, country, postal code, or address and see a map of the locale.
MagPortal.com Search vast magazine archive for specific articles.
Pandia Search Central Metasearch, news, radio search, people search, many more tools and tutorials on SEs.
Researchville Choose one or all of 8 SE's to find news from wire services and newspapers; metasearches; health & medicine, government, education, dictionaries, encyclopedias & how-to guides.
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