Search Engines
List of Search Engines [W]
Top-3 Search Engines
- Google [W] - RR: IV
search engine - where everyone gets in for free
- Yahoo! [W] - RR: IV - Try new Yahoo! Alpha aka alpha beta, aka ajax Yahoo!
search engine; still my favorite
- Live - W
relatively new search engine, from Microsoft
The Rest A-Z...
- Alexa.com - W
this California-based company, acquired by Amazon.com in 1999, analyzes internet traffic (providing graphs, etc.); it also serves as a search engine
Note: Upon visiting the site, click TRAFFIC RANKINGS. Then (in the http:// SEARCH BOX) type in the full web address, such as: www.wikipedia.com. - AltaVista
search engine
http://www.altavista.com/ - AOL - Search
search engine
http://www.aol.com/
http://search.aol.com/ - Ask
search engine, formerly known as Ask Jeeves
http://www.ask.com/ - Cuil [W]
search engine; pronounced "Cool"; claims to have a larger index than any other search engine, with about 120 billion web pages; it went live on July 28, 2008
http://www.cuil.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil - Dogpile - W
search engine
http://www.dogpile.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil - Excite.com (gets blocked by McAfee Site Advisor) - UK Version - W
search engine
http://www.excite.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excite - Gigablast [W]
tagline: a fresh search alternative
http://www.gigablast.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigablast - HotBot [W]
from Wikipedia: one of the early Internet search engines and was launched in May 1996 as a service of Wired Magazine; has in recent years reduced its scope; today ... is merely a front end for third-party search engines lyGo.com, Yahoo.com, and MSN
http://www.hotbot.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotbot - Kart00 [W]
a next-generation meta search engine which displays a visual interface
http://www.kartoo.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kartoo - Lycos - Search
search engine
http://www.lycos.com/
http://search.lycos.com/ - lyGO
visual search engine for Lycos
http://www.lygo.com/ - Mama
search engine
http://www.mamma.com/ - Meta Crawler
search engine
http://www.metacrawler.com/ - MSN
old-style search engine, from Microsoft
http://www.msn.com/ - Netscape Search
search engine
http://search.netscape.com/ - Wikia Search [W]
a free and open-source Web search engine and a part of Wikia (originally Wikicities) operated by Wikia, Inc., a for-profit company founded in late 2004 by Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley. The "public alpha" was launched on January 7, 2008. This roll-out version of the search interface was widely criticized by reviewers in mainstream media.
http://re.search.wikia.com/index.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikia_Search
Search Engine Watch [W] is a website that provides news and information about search engines and search engine marketing.
Web Traffic Analysis
- Alexa.com
Alexa is a California-based company, acquired by Amazon.com in 1999, analyzes internet traffic (providing graphs, etc.); it also serves as a search engine
http://www.alexa.com/
Note: Upon visiting the site, click TRAFFIC RANKINGS. Then (in the http:// SEARCH BOX) type in the full web address, such as: www.wikipedia.com.
