Guest ellas Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 A few search engine links (with descriptions) please keep adding to listAbout.com formerly the Mining Company, features hundreds of "guides" offering original content in various areas. While About.com isn't really a search service, the guides do have extensive links to other sites -- not to mention top-notch content of their own. http://www.about.com/ Aeiwi Not your normal search engine, Aeiwi has you click on words to build your search. Reading the instructions is a must, but they aren't long. http://www.aeiwi.com/ AllSearchEngines.com The name says it all -- links to all search engines, or at least a whole lot! Browse categories to find search engines, don't search. Searching simply brings back general results from a paid listings search engine. http://www.allsearchengines.com/ AllTheWeb.com An excellent crawler-based search engine; AllTheWeb.com provides the ability to search for news stories, pictures, video clips, MP3s and FTP files. http://www.alltheweb.com AltaVista is the oldest crawler-based search engine on the web. Sadly, an attempt to turn AltaVista into a portal site in 1998 saw the company lose track of the importance of search. Over time, relevancy dropped, as did the freshness of AltaVista's listings and the crawler's coverage of the web. Today, AltaVista is once again focused on search. Improvements have been made, but crawlers such as Google and AllTheWeb provide more comprehensive results. http://www.altavista.com Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves instead depends on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma search engine that it owns. http://www.askjeeves.com Big Search Engine Index Hundreds of search engines organized into categories. http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/ Britannica.com Links to top web sites and content from the Encyclopedia Britannica, in one place. http://www.britannica.com/ DirectoryGuide Hundreds of search engines and directories, organized into categories. Use the guide to find a likely service for your search, or follow links to post information about your web site. http://www.siteowner.com/dgdefault.cfm Direct Search A large collection of specialized search tools that often contain info that is hidden to search engines. http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm Dogpile Primarily known as one of the most popular meta search services, querying 13 major engines including Google, FAST, Ask Jeeves and Inktomi. http://www.dogpile.com/ Excite Results are dominated by paid listings from Overture, with non-paid results from Inktomi. In Nov. 2001, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace, which also operates meta search engines Dogpile and MetaCrawler. http://www.excite.com Google Has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web. The crawler-based service provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy. Http://www.google.com HotBot Provides easy access to the web's four major crawler-based search engines: AllTheWeb.com/FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma http://www.hotbot.com HotLinks Uses bookmarks contributed by its members to allow users to search for sites of interest. http://www.hotlinks.com/ Indicateur Directory of search engines, written in French. (Which some us no doubt do speak!) http://www.indicateur.com InfoGrid In a compact format it provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered. http://www.infogrid.com Inktomi Among the major search engines it the second-oldest crawler. The company had been left behind by rivals Google and AllTheWeb.com in terms of comprehensiveness, but changes made in the summer of 2002 made it much more competitive. It was purchased by Yahoo in March 2003. Nevertheless, Yahoo-owned Inktomi still continues to provide results to Yahoo-rival MSN Search (listed below). http://www.inktomi.com iWon iWon's results come from both Overture & Inktomi. http://www.iwon.com Links2Go A directory-style search engine that uses artificial intelligence techniques to cluster related topics and URLs together. http://www.links2go.com/ LookSmart LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. Similar to Inktomi, LookSmart provides its results to other search engines that need listings. http://www.looksmart.com Lycos Lycos is one of the oldest search engines on the web, launched in 1994. It ceased crawling the web for its own listings in April 1999 and instead uses crawler-based results provided by AllTheWeb. http://www.lycos.com MSN Search Microsoft has its own team of editors that monitors the most popular searches being performed and then hand-picks sites that are believed to be the most relevant. Of course, humans editors can't do everything, so MSN Search also relies on search providers for answers to many of its queries. Usually, it will be human-powered results from the LookSmart directory that dominate the page. http://search.msn.com My Octopus Allows anyone to create collections of information around different topics that are called "views." Views are extremely powerful. In addition to links to web pages, a view can contain parts of web pages, images, "informational elements" that pull data such as sports scores into a view, and more. It's also possible to search through the entire collection of contributed public view. http://my.octopus.com Netscape Search Owned by AOL Time Warner, Netscape Search uses Google for its main listings, just as does AOL's other major search site, AOL Search. http://search.netscape.com Open Directory Uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. It was acquired by AOL Time Warner-owned Netscape in November 1998, and the company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license arrangement. http://dmoz.org/ Open Directory Search Engines A multitude of links to quality resources about search engines and to search engines themselves. http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Searching/Search_Engines/ PepeSearch Uses search results from FAST. http://www.pepesearch.com/ Qango.com Directory of web sites. http://www.qango.com/ SearchBug.com Collection of search and reference sites, ranging from reverse phone number searches to package tracking, as well as covering the major search engines. http://www.searchbug.com Teoma Teoma is a crawler-based search engine owned by Ask Jeeves. It has a smaller index of the web than its rival crawler-competitors Google, AllTheWeb.com, Inktomi and AltaVista. http://www.teoma.com Search Engine Colossus Lists search engines worldwide. http://www.searchenginecolossus.com SearchKing A searchable directory of web sites that offers instant indexing of submitted web sites. http://www.searchking.com WiseNut Like Teoma, WiseNut is a crawler-based search engine. Unlike Teoma, WiseNut has a large database, making it nearly as comprehensive as Google, AllTheWeb and Inktomi. However, the WiseNut database has consistently been months out of date. http://www.wisenut.com WebCrawler Essentially a copy of the Excite service. http://www.webcrawler.com/ Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory," a place where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to using Google's crawler-based listings for its main results. If Yahoo is now powered by Google, then why bother using it? For one thing, you might find that the way Yahoo "enhances" Google's listings with information from its own directory may make search results more readable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Radfordin Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 What ya mean when google doesn't work?Another 1: K9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Besty Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Good link thanks ellas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ellas Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 yeah I know its hard to believe google not working :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
artist Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 yeah I know its hard to believe google not working :DBlimey Ellas - you've been busy!Will try some though.................. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Agent Smith Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 Blimey Ellas - you've been busy!Will try some though.................. :)Bet he just did a search for them on GOOGLE :P :D :lol: Mr. M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted April 17, 2004 Report Share Posted April 17, 2004 I use copernic Its another meta searcher (free) but it has the option of searching 13 UK based searchers , which sometimes gives more relevant results than google ...You have to download the programme , and the free version searches less engines than the purchased one ....but its good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ash Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 http://www.gigablast.comhttp://www.mozdex.com (BETA) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndySD Posted April 18, 2004 Report Share Posted April 18, 2004 Turbo10 http://turbo10.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddogmatilda Posted May 17, 2004 Report Share Posted May 17, 2004 Try this great looking Search Engine.... http://www.kartoo.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I cant believe that none of you have not added probably one of the biggest search engines in the worldhttp://www.dogpile.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maddogmatilda Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 http://www.dogpile.com/This is already listed but another good one is www.info.co.uk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madboy33 Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Once again I do apologise :blush: :blush: :blush: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 I use copernic Its another meta searcher (free) but it has the option of searching 13 UK based searchers , which sometimes gives more relevant results than google ...You have to download the programme , and the free version searches less engines than the purchased one ....but its goodJust to check - does the free version include any adware/spyware? I think at one point things were bundled are they still? Thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tankus Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 not noticed any ....I run Ad aware spy-bot and spywareblaster .... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redhat Posted May 24, 2004 Report Share Posted May 24, 2004 Thank you tankus :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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