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Internet Search Engines
Click the 
to go to the help page for each search engine. Browsable Subject Directories
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Galaxy |
http://www.galaxy.com |
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Looksmart |
http://www.looksmart.com |
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Open Directory
Project |
http://dmoz.org/ |
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W3 Virtual Library |
http://www.vlib.org/Home.html |
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Yahoo! |
http://www.yahoo.com |
Comprehensive Search Engines
| Alltheweb |
http://www.alltheweb.com |
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Alta
Vista |
http://www.altavista.com |
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Excite |
http://www.excite.com |
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Google |
http://www.google.com |
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HotBot |
http://www.hotbot.com |
| Lycos |
http://www.lycos.com |
| MSNSearch
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http://search.msn.com |
| NBCi |
http://nbci.msnbc.com/nbci.asp |
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Overture |
http://www.overture.com/ |
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Teoma |
http://www.teoma.com/ |
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Webcrawler |
http://www.webcrawler.com |
Selective/Evaluative sites
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Britannica.com |
http://www.britannica.com |
Multi-engine search sites
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Dogpile |
http://www.dogpile.com/ |
| Fazzle |
http://www.fazzle.com/ |
| Kart00 |
http://www.kartoo.com/ |
| Mamma |
http://www.mamma.com |
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MetaCrawler |
http://www.metacrawler.com/ |
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ProFusion |
http://www.profusion.com/ |
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Search.com |
http://www.search.com/ |
| SurfWax |
http://www.surfwax.com |
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Vivisimo
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http://vivisimo.com/ |
Discussion List Search Engines
| CataList |
http://www.lsoft.com/catalist.html |
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Tile.Net |
http://www.tile.net |
Search Engine Comparison Sites
| Search Engine
Watch |
http://www.searchenginewatch.com |
| Summary
of Search Engine Features |
http://daphne.palomar.edu/TGSEARCH/ |
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Web search tool features |
http://www.unn.ac.uk/central/isd/features.htm |
What is a search engine anyway?
"A program that searches documents for specified keywords and returns a
list of the documents where the keywords were found. Although search
engine is really a general class of programs, the term is often used
to specifically describe systems like Alta Vista and Excite that
enable users to search for documents on the World Wide Web and USENET
newsgroups."
The PC Webopaedia
(http://www.pcwebopaedia.com/search_engine.htm)
"An Internet Search Engine is a remotely accessible program that performs
keyword and/or concept searches for information on the Internet. The
search engine itself is usually a powerful workstation-class machine that
searches a database of information collected from the Internet. This
information is gathered primarily by software programs called robots or
spiders that "crawl" through all of the files on the Internet, and
download them into a searchable database."
MediaWest Definitions
(http://www.mediawest.com/ver2/def/mwstdf27.html)
Last Update: 01.23.2004
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