Internet Search Engines
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Google - One of the largest
search engines, the top choice when searching the web. Comprehensive
coverage of the web with good relevance. http://www.google.com |
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Other
Search Engines in Alphabetical Order |
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All-the-Web - One of the largest
search engines. The focus is on web search, but news, picture, video,
MP3 and FTP search are also offered. http://www.alltheweb.com/ |
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AltaVista - Use for obscure words and
subjects. Has images, MP3/Audio, video, human category listings and news
results. http://www.altavista.com |
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Ask.com
- Ask questions in everyday language http://www.ask.com |
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Dogpile
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Searches many engines and directories at once http://www.dogpile.com/ |
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Excite - One of
the smaller search engine but provides relevant results for popular
topics http://www.excite.com |
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Google Scholar - Use for scholarly literature,
abstracts and technical reports. http://www.scholar.google.com |
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HotBot
- Provides easy access to the web's three major
crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and Ask.com. http://www.hotbot.com |
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LookSmart - The best feature of
LookSmart is found via its Articles tab. Provides access to content from
thousands of periodicals. http://www.looksmart.com/ |
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Lycos - limit search to certain areas, has
advanced searching http://lycos.com/ |
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Mamma - Searches 8 engines at once http://www.mamma.com |
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Metacrawler - allows searching by geographic region or type of
site, search many engines and directories at once http://www.metacrawler.com |
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Yahoo - The web's oldest "directory". http://www.yahoo.com |
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