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A9
Amazon books, Live results |
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Abcsearchengine Index based, fairly
small |
| About Lots of articles on lots of things |
| Accoona Excellent for news, good for focussed
searching |
| Acronymfinder Find acronyms |
| Aftervote Social search engine |
| Ajaxwhois Great for site statistics
searches |
| Alexa Good for background information on a
site |
| AllPlus Good meta engine, lots of
options |
| Alltheweb Part of the Yahoo family |
| Altavista Oldie, but still a goodie,
suprising enough |
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| Answers Good for factual information |
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| AOL Search Google in a different
guise |
| Archive, Internet Good for older versions of
a site |
| Ask One
of the big four |
| Azoos Painfully bright yellow index
engine |
| Beaucoup Index based, not impressed |
| Better Who Is Information about a
website owner etc |
| Blinkx
Multimedia search engine |
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| Brainboost Part of the Answers
family |
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| Buzzle Index based, not impressed |
| ChaCha Search with a human guide |
| Clusty
Good all rounder |
| Collarity Personalised search engine. Very
good. |
| Complete Planet Excellent for
hidden/invisible web |
| Country Search Engines 4,000
country search engines |
| Digital-librarian Collection of
links from a librarian |
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| DMOZ
(Open Directory Project) Good index/directory |
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| Dogpile Multisearch GYMA |
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| Draze Compare GYM on one screen |
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| Ebingbong Social search, lets users rate
results. |
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Eurekster Good for building your own
engine |
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ExaleadSuperb functionality, good advanced
options |
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ExciteDoes anyone still use that any
more? |
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Factbites Factual information |
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FaganFinder Superb collection of
engines |
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Fazzle Good all round meta search engine |
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Feedster |
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Findsounds Audio/sound search engine |
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FinQoo Multi search engine, doesn't say what
the sources are |
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Freesearch UK based engine, global
scope |
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Galaxy Index based |
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Google Do I need to say anything about this
one? |
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Google Blogsearch Best blog search
engine going |
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Google Directory Same as DMOZ |
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Google Groups Good for obscure
information |
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Google Images Yahoo image search is
superior |
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Google Local Local to the UK that
is. |
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Google
News Adequate. Good for email alerts |
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Google Personalised Tailor results to your
interests |
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Google Scholar Good(ish) for academic
stuff |
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Google Trends Who is looking for
what? |
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Healia Excellent medical
search engine |
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Hotbot Blast from the past! |
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IAF People
search Searches for people! US biased. |
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iBoogie Multi search engine, strong on
clustering |
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Icerocket Good for blog searching |
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Illumirate Index based |
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InfoMine For scholarly internet resource
collections |
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Infopeople People
search |
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Infoservice Index based, bizarre collection of
headings |
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Intute Superb directory, very
authoritative |
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Irazoo Social search engine, vote for
results |
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Ixquick Excellent meta search engine |
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Jayde Business to business |
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Jux2
Excellent meta search & compare results |
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Kartoo Visual search engine, good
reputation |
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Kazazz Free text search engine, not
particularly exciting |
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KidsclickChildren's search engine |
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Librarians
Internet Index Superb resource |
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Linkopedia Index based, not exciting |
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Live
Search One of the big 4 |
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Lycos Almost lost in the midst of
time, but still trying |
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Mahalo Social search engine, some like it, I
don't |
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MammaMulti meta search engine that's been
around for years |
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Mastersite Calls itself #1 though I can't
work out why |
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Metacrawler Meta search
engine |
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Monstercrawler Meta search
engine |
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Mooter Visual search engine |
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MsDewey Microsoft folly; annoying and
pointless |
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Oaister Emphasis on hidden
web academic material |
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Omnimedicalsearch Excellent medical
search engine |
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Peerbot Very unusual
engine, as it searches for favicons |
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Pepesearch Does not stand out |
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Pinakes Superb
collection of Virtual Libraries |
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Questfinder Selective web directory |
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Quintura First rate, uses clouds of terms.
Recommended |
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RedZee
Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent |
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Re-quest Index/Directory web search
engine |
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Scandoo accurately indicates a level of
trustworthiness |
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Scirus Scientific search of web and
selected journals |
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Scrubtheweb Nothing to
recommend it |
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Search-beat Uses Google's database |
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Searchbug Search for people and companies
in the US |
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Search.com Metasearch engine |
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Searchhippo Metasearch engine,
unimpressed |
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Searchy Personalised search |
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Searchmash Google test bed |
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Search Medica Excellent
medical search engine |
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Searchthe.net Meta search engine |
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Searchtheweb
Index/Directory |
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Selectsurf Selective web directory |
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Similicio.us Find similar sites |
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Silobreaker Superb news resource |
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Slider Full text search engine that searches
DMOZ |
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Smartlinks Index/Directory |
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SMEALSearch Academic
authoritative content |
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Sproose Social search engine |
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Sunsteam Index/Directory |
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Supercrawler Index/Directory |
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Technorati Excellent weblog search
engine |
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Thenet1 Index/Directory |
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Thunderstone
Index/Directory |
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Trooker Superb video search engine |
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Turbo
10 Great for hidden/invisible web |
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TurboScout Very good multi search
engine |
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Ujiko Visual search engine |
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Web
Brain Visual search engine |
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Webcrawler Meta search engine for
GYMA |
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Web-search Meta search engine, one at a
time |
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Webworldindex Index/Directory |
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Whatuseek Web/Index based, not worth the
trouble |
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Windseek Meta search engine |
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WWW Virtual
Library Second only to Pinakes |
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Yahoo! One of the big 4 |
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Yahoo
Buzz What's going on? |
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Yahoo
Directory Yahoo as it used to be |
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Yahooligans For children |
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Yahoo
Local Local information |
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Yahoo Mindset Emphasis research
or shopping |
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YouTube Video engine. Use Trooker
instead |
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Zapmeta Allows for various methods of
re-ranking |
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Zensearch Uses the Google database |
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