Search Engines
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- Specialized Search Engines (Awesome Library)
Provides search engines, by topic. 6-99
Papers
- AOL NetFind
- About.com
Provides a subject directory, the site's strongest contribution. Also provides an alphabetical index of topics and a search engine. (Formerly called the Miningco.com). 2-01
- All-in-One Internet Search (AllOneSearch.com)
Provides a listing of search engines, with searches made directly from the site. 2-01
- Ask Jeeves
Ask a short question in your own words and Jeeves will quickly look for an Internet answer.
- CAG Enterprises
Provides search boxes for the most popular search engines and some specialized search engines, such as in education.
- Copernic 2000
Provides free software for searches of multiple search engines simultaneously.
- Direct Hit
Provides 10 relevant sites and links to categories for finding more relevant sites. 6-99
- FAST
Provides a search engine with one of the largest databases. 12-99
- Free.com
Provides a comprehensive listing of search engines. 12-99
Provides results by popularity and number of links to the site. Also provides a cached version of each page, in case the server is down at the time.
- Highway 61(The Virtual Mirror)
Searches Yahoo, Alta Vista, WebCrawler, Excite and Infoseek libraries of resources.
- Inference Search Engine
Search for resources by several search engines at once, with duplicates removed. Displays results by type of site, such as commercial or nonprofit.
- InstantSeek.com
Provides a search engine and a directory. Search engine is composed of over 1,000,000 entries that have been reviewed, according to the authors. 3-00
- InvisibleWeb.com
Provides over 2 million links, reviewed and annotated by volunteers. 8-00
- Lacombe Index of Search Engines
- Learning@Web.Sites - Indexes & Host Search Engines (Levin)
- Lorenc
Go and Find provides almost 100 search engines.
- Magellan Search Engine
- Netscape Search Engine
- Open Directory
Provides over 2 million links in over 200,000 categories. Rated as the best directory on the Web by PC World magazine (September 2000). 8-00
- Patents Search (United States Patent and Trademark Office)
Provides "full text of all US patents issued since January 1, 1976, and full-page images of each page of every US patent issued since 1790."
- Pictures Search (North Central Regional Educational Laboratory)
Provides a search engine for child-safe pictures. 1-02
- Profusion
Search up to three search engines at once, with duplicate findings removed. Search using the fastest engines or the most accurate engines or a combination of both.
- Sherlockhound
Provides searches from a choice of search engines, all at the same time. 5-00
- Submitwolf
Provides over two dozen databases.
- UK Search Engine (Mirago)
Provides a family friendly search engine for the regions of the UK or the entire UK. 11-01
- Unified Universal Search Engines and Tools Gateway
- WebCrawler Search Engine
- WebPlaces.com
Provides over 100 search engines by general type. 7-00
- Advanced Search Tips (Smith)
Provides assistance with advanced searches using seven different Web libraries or "search engines."
- Children's Search Engines (Ivy's Kid Search)
Provides search engines that have child-safe resources. 5-02
- Invisible Web (About.com - Sherman)
Provides a listing of sources of databases that do not show up well on search engines but may have very well selected content.. 3-01
- Search Engine Design (Macmillan Publishers - Nature)
Provides a discussion on the next steps in the development of search engines, with an emphasis on the Google search engine. 5-00
- Search Engine Features (Search Engine Watch - Sullivan)
Provides descriptions of how each major search engine operates.
- Search Engine Rating Systems (Search Engine Watch - Sullivan)
Provides descriptions of how each major search engine rates sites.
- SurfSafely.com - Family Safe Searches (SurSafely.com)
Provides resources that have been rated for child safety. 10-01