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Popular Search Engines

Google

Finds relevant results by combining query words with its PageRank� system: sites with the most links from other relevant sites appear at the top of results lists. One of the largest and fastest search engines; new features (groups, news, image search, scholar search) added regularly.

   

AllTheWeb

Large and fast enough to compete with Google. Searches web pages, news, pictures, videos, MP3s and FTP files.

   

Teoma

Ranks a page using a variation of the Google method, called Subject-Specific Popularity� by counting the number of same-subject pages that link to it. Results subdivided into results, refine (suggestions how to narrow your search), and resources (collections of related links, i.e., directory topics).

   

Multi-Search Engines

Hotbot

Simultaneously searches any or all of Fast, Google, Inktomi and Teoma. User can customize preferences for searching and results display.

Vivisimo

Categorizes ("clusters") web search results. Results sites can be previewed.

Dogpile

Searches several of the web's most popular search engines at once and brings back top results from each.

Directories

Yahoo

Online guide to the World Wide Web created by editors who visit and evaluate web sites, and then organize them into subject-based categories and sub-categories.

Google

The Web organized into categories, with sites ranked according to Google's PageRank� system.

Invisible Web

Complete Planet

Browsable or searchable guide to the "deep web"--searchable databases that other search engines cannot find.

ProFusion

Directory of over 10,000 databases, archives, and search engines that contain information that traditional search engines are unable to access.

Clearinghouses for Reviewed Sites

Librarians' Index to the Internet

A searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 11,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.

Internet Scout Project

Includes weekly updates and archives of critical annotations of carefully selected Internet sites, mailing lists, and other online resources.

Information on Search Engines

Search Engine Showdown

"The User's Guide to Web Searching," by Greg R. Notess

Search Engine Watch

Includes guides to search engines, tips, tutorial, and other resources.