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Individual Search Engines
Web Search - Returns
results from its own index accompanied by additional information including traffic
ranking, number of links to page, ownership and links to related pages of interest
AllTheWeb - Returns results quickly from
an extremely large database gathered by the Yahoo crawler; offers multimedia and
news searches; has a good advanced search interface
AltaVista - Searches Web sites and Usenet
newsgroups with advanced Boolean and field search options. With
Babel Fish, the AltaVista translation service.
AOL Search - Engine that defaults to AND
logic and offers an Options template for easy search construction; has an option
to view results by popularity
Ask.com - General search engine enhanced by a number
of specialty searches including a dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia,
maps, news
BananaSlug - Uses the Google search
mechanism and seeds your search with a random word from the category of your choice
to return unusual results
Brainboost - Ask questions in plain
English and retrieve pages with the relevant answer
ChaCha - Search engine that offers live
human guides to help answer queries
Exalead - Offers concept clustering
of results, thumbnail images of retrieved sites, and customization options such
as organization of results by file type, geography or modification date
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Factbites
- Beta engine that searches for full topic matches and returns meaningful, full
sentence excerpts of sites in its results list
Google -Rranks pages by tracking the links
links from pages ranked high by the service. Google offers a number of Services
that are worth exploring, including:
Google Blog Search, For searching
blog entries
Google Book Search, For searching the full
text of books from most publishers in the U.S.
Google Directory, For searching the
Google version of the Open Directory
Google Scholar, Offers the full text,
abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly materials including books, journal articles,
documents in academic repositories and the free Web. This link will allow you
to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Libraries subscribe
when you are off campus.
Google U.S. Government Search, a
searchable database of U.S. government Web sites ranked by link popularity
Searchmash Google's experimental general
search tool
Hakia - Accepts plain English queries; derives
results from the Ask.com index
IceRocket - Offers thumbnail images of
retrieved sites; also saves a search history, creates an RSS feed of search results,
and offers a free RSS builder
KoolTorch
- Returns results organized by graphical icons into general category clusters
that, in turn, generate results within that category
Live Search - Microsoft's search engine that
offers searches of the general Web as well as some deep Web sources and focused
search including health, local, and questions/answers
Lycos - General search engine that also offers
searches of a few deep Web content sources including people look-up, yellow pages
and multimedia
Quintura - Displays a type of tag cloud
with keywords related to your search that can be selected to generate new results
SearchEdu.com - Service that limits results
to the .edu, domain; also offers to search well-known dictionaries, encyclopedias,
almanacs, etc. See also:
SearchGov.com - Only to .gov domain
SearchMil.com - Only to .mil domain
Ujiko - Features a
number of results customization tools in a visual environment that also offers
topic classification for subsequent searches
Webbrain - Offers results in visual layout
of related terms for subsequent searching
Yahoo! - Portal with a general Web search
and many other content services
Meta Search Engines
Cacti Search
- Search Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, and retrive a collated results list with
an option to view results from each engine separately
Chubba - Search the Web, a dictionary/thesaurus
and encyclopedia
Clusty - Tool from the creators of Vivisimo
that clusters results from a variety of surface and deep Web sources and organizes
them into clusters by topic, site or URL; also offers a variety of customization
options, including the creation of a Clusty
Cloud
Copernic - Client software that searches
multiple engines and directories, removes duplicates and dead links, highlights
search terms in your results, and offers a variety of search and retrieval options
Don Busca - Searches the Web, blogs, news
and software and offers a variety of options with each result including concept
clusters, a visual thumbnail of the site, a cached version, a link to the site
archive in the Wayback Machine, site info from a variety of sources and various
bookmark management options
Dogpile - Search 20+ search engines and
retrieve results by relevance or separate source engine; also presents concept
clusters for viewing results organized by keywords or topics
ez2Find - Searches eight search engines and
a number of deep Web sources and clusters the results into concepts
Fazzle - Searches several search services
on the Web, and also offers specialty searches of downloads, images, video and
other topics on the deep Web
Findelio - Searches a handful of popular engines
and includes a list of related searches along with each set of results
FindForward - Searches multiple sources
and offers numerous search options including chat search, tags, wildcard and grow
word search
iBoogie - Offers searches of the Web and
multimedia, and supplies real-time concept clustering of results
InfoGrid - Offers meta and news searching;
portal interface also features the Open Directory, topical InfoGrids, with additional
customization of topics available in a free download
Intelways - Offers a search of multiple search
engines, content providers and media types with access to results sets from the
individual sources
Ixquick - Ranks results based on top ten rankings
from the source sites; allows any type of search syntax and will translate and
direct your search accordingly
Kartoo - Categorizes content into relevant
concepts and sites and displays results on a graphical map; requires Flash or
offers an HTML version
Keotag - Type a keyword or phrase and retrieve
results from the past 30 days of blog postings from numerous blog aggregators;
you can subscribe to an RSS feed to track this search
KillerInfo - Retrieves information from
the general Web and various topic-specific sources and organizes results into
concept clusters based on Vivisimo's technology
Mamma - Retrieve results in relevancy ranked
order; power search offers a user-friendly template for building a query
MetaCrawler - Retrieve results in relevancy
ranked order; useful power search available with a template of search options
metaEUREKA - Sorts results by relevancy
and offers a "Site info" link that returns information on the server, date last
modified, size, and descriptive information if available; also links to site history
via the Wayback Machine and popularity ratings from Alexa
Mnemomap - provides results in a graphical
format that provides search refinements and draws results from Yahoo!, Flickr
and YouTube
Monster Crawler - Simultaneously searches
Google, Yahoo!, LiveSearch and Ask
Mooter - meta engine that presents initial
search results in graphical format and organizes results into concept clusters
Pandia Search Central - Searches multiple
engines and directories and also offers searches of news, books, music, videos
and other specialty databases; includes a searchable version of the Open
Directory
Slurk - Searches Google, Yahoo and MSN, and
gives keyword search suglestions and immediate results as you type
Sproose - allows users to comment on and
vote on its search results
SurfWax - Offers options to see a quick
view of sites in the search results list to determine relevancy and choose alternative
search terms for a subsequent search from a thesaurus; offers personalization
options; offers SurfWax
LookAhead with "Dynamic Search Navigation" that retrieves results from RSS
feeds as you type various kinds of queries
Trexy - Tracks "trails" of the Web pages visited
and therefore valued by other searchers; users can Add
Engine to extend the range of the search engines that Trexy uses
URL.com - returns the top ten results from
Google, Yahoo! and MSN, and allows users to comment on and vote on the results
Virtual Learning Resources Center -
Searches several high quality directories; also offers its own directory
WhoNu - Semantic tool that searches a large
number of resource types, including deep Web sources, and suglests alterate topics
Yooci - Metasearch tool that retrieves no
more than 250 results for any search
ZapMeta - Organizes results by relevance,
popularity, title, source or domain, allows users to set preferences, and features
a useful advanced search interface
Zuula - Searches the Web, images, news, blogs
and jobs postings, and returns results from multiple search tools in configurable
separate tabs
Search Engine Collections
SearchBug.com
- Offers searches organized by topic, and searching of single or multiple search
services
Search Engine Colossus - Directory
of hundreds of search tools from more than 200 countries around the world
Search Engine Guide - Topical
collection of 3000+ engines, directories and portals
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