Popular Search Engines and Directories
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A Web of On-Line Dictionaries | Multilingual dictionaries, Thesauri and other vocabulary aids, language identifiers, dictionary indices, more. |
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About.com | Web directory for the Internet offers reviews from web editors in over 500 categories. |
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AltaVista | Web and Usenet News searcher, indexing over 100 million pages. One of the original engines. |
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Ask.com | Ask a question to Jeeves the butler, he'll help you find what you're looking for and possible alternatives. |
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Bigfoot | One of the most accurate global email and white pages on the Net, with over 100 million listings. |
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Direct Hit | Owned by Ask Jeeves. Search for web sites or by category. |
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Dogpile | Search the web, for images, audio/MP3, auctions, news, FTP, discussions, multimedia. |
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Euroseek | EuroSeek, a multilingual search engine, lets users search for Web sites by nationality, language, and keyword. |
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An increasingly popular search engine, with good reason. My personal favorite. | |
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GoSnoop | Headline news search engine. |
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Highway 61 | This meta search site allows users to search the Web using five different search engines simultaneously. |
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HotBot | HotBot is HotWired's Internet search engine. |
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Husky Search | The University of Washington's search engine. Another good alternative to how the big boys do searches. |
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Infoseek | Infoseek provides users with a Web search engine and directory service at their site. |
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Infozoid | A meta search engine. If you are serious about researching a topic. This is one of the best. |
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ixquick | Comprehensive results, fast response, advanced syntax support. Web, news, picture, and MP3 searches. |
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IWon | Search the web, shop, and a number of other features. You could win money. |
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InfoSpace | InfoSpace is an Internet directory featuring white and yellow pages, and lots more. |
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LookSmart | LookSmart is a multi-tiered Internet directory that allows users to refine searches to specific categories. |
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Lycos | Go get it boy! Another valuable search engine. |
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Magellan | Magellan offers a search engine for Internet sites as well as site reviews. |
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Mamma | This meta search site runs searches against several other popular engines and returns results. |
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MetaCrawler | This search engine queries other search services, including Lycos, Yahoo! and Infoseek. |
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MetaGopher | Search the web fast. Another meta search engine. |
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MSN Web Search | Basic and advanced searching along with links to a number of services. |
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NetGuide | NetGuide features specialized guides to Internet events in several formats. |
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Netscape | Use their directory, search the Internet, or set up an email account at Netscape's portal. |
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SavvySearch | Savvy Search allows users to search the Web using 25 different search engines simultaneously. |
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Search.com | This site from CNet offers Web searches for home pages, people, software downloads and city maps. |
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SearchSpaniel | Search Spaniel lets users combine many search engines simultaneously for a single search option. |
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Snap | Snap! is a search engine from CNET. Users can search for Web sites by category or keywords. |
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Teoma | Another minimalist search engine. So good Ask Jeeves bought them out. |
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WhoWhere | WhoWhere is a searchable database of e-mail addresses, phone numbers, and mailing addresses. |
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Yahoo | Yahoo! is one of the original web directories that indexes sites by category and keyword. |