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Some of the most useful search engines currently available
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Copernic
http://www.copernic.com/
Public Information Reserach : Namebase NameBase is a proper name index only -- it contains names of individuals, groups, and corporations, but no subject categories.
Blinx - search for tv, video and podcasts
http://www.blinkx.com/overview.php
YoY-search - a web portal with ten types of search
Who Powers Who?
Table illustrating the various alliances between various search engines and directories.
http://www.dotfactor.com/artman/publish/marketing_39.shtml
List-based WWW Catalogs
- See also:
- Study Web - reviews and categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites.
- Hot Lava.
- Aliweb at Nexor
- Find-it! - (Paul Sarena's info collection)
- Lifestyle.UK - Categorized (10'000+) links, geographically sorted under 87 different headings.
- Sharelook Deutschland - Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch).
- Sharelook France - (en français)
- EC rider - Categorized and reviewed sites in the Netherlands.
- InfoBase International
- OmniTree - Categorized (~60 000) links about Computers
- Snap!
- ZenSearch
- Point Of Origin - family safe links, fast results with true content web sites
- Web Search - Internet Guide and Reference
- Extreme Search
- search@YourLeisure
- Z-Search - Search engine for WebTV
- SearchLite - parent/child friendly directory.
- Aeiwi - user friendly search engine.
- OzSearch Internet Guide - An all-Australian web directory.
- OzOnline
- World Wide News - a big worldwide directory of online newspapers.
- Egypt Search - Egypt-related web sites directory.
- Fat Head Search
- Search-4-Info
- Max - Search in South African Web.
- The Canadian, Eh? - Showcasing Canada's Best Family Safe Web Sites!
- AgriBOT - Canada's Online Agricultural Directory
- Canadopedia - "La Toile du Canada"
- CanadaOne - Canadian Online Business Resources.
- LII -
Librarians' Index to the Internet
- "Information You Can Trust. It's a directory of more than 10,000 Internet
resources on a wide
range of subject matter. Links are selected and evaluated by librarians.
Sites are awarded a listing in the directory based on the quality of
information they contain. It's a gateway to excellent free resources on a
breathtaking range of subjects. Check it out. " Henry Morgan, Broadside,
19th March 2003.
- Vol.3 No.7 & 8.
http://www.freebooter.com
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- Islin.net Web Directory and Search Engine (formally search@Yourleisure)
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Spider-based WWW Catalogs
- More:
- WWW Worm [DEFUNCT]
- HotBot
- DarkCRawler - search the Gothic Web
- Canada.com - Your Canadian Internet Search Engine.
- SwissGuide - lists 60'000 Swiss sites.
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- Google. The biggest searchengine as of 2007. Half of all web quiries in the US went through Google.
- Funkycat.
- Australian WebSearch.
- NewZealand WebSearch.
- Cosmoz [DEFUNCT]
- Splat Search
- WorldLight
- Ananzi - Largest portal in Africa
- Zebra - Another South African search engine. [DEFUNCT]
Natural language queries
Other Catalogs
- Interesting:
- Tsunami surfing page
- Orb Search (was Planet Search)
- Les pages web Plus de 4.000.000 pages en langue française
Other Meta-Search Engines
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- www.ixquick.com - "Ixquick.com has a number of powerful features:
> - Outstanding search relevancy (find what you're looking for immediately)
> - Comprehensive results (searches 12 engines simultaneously)
> - Fast response
> - Advanced syntax support (beyond the capabilities of any other metasearch engine)
> - Web, Picture, News and MP3 category searches
> - One dozen languages are supported"
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- SiFMuG (Surfing Internet Facilitated Multipurpose Unified Gateway) references a huge list of search engines.
- Search Spaniel lets you use as many search engines as you like simultaneously.
- Inference Find the Intelligent Fast Parallel Web Search.
- External Info page at Twente University.
- All4one sends simple queries to AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler and Excite
- Apollo7 German-language Metasearch with high-performance
- Proteus metasearch tool suite
- search.langenberg.com - Get There Faster
- Search engines worldwide - sorted by country suite
- Suchen.com - German language based meta search engine
- SavvySearch - search once, find everything
- MatchSite
- CentraPoint
- ioport - MetaSearch and more
- AllSearchEngines.com
- Search Engines Galore - hundred of search engines!
- Search Buddy - Meta-search engine with an original interface.
- OzOnline
- AllSearchEngines - All about search engines.
- 1blink
- OneSearch - "it only takes OneSearch"
- WebInfoSearch - also job,price and people meta-search.
- Fujo - You can save your searches for future reference.
- Net2day - takes few seconds, then display available results.
- Mamma.com
- Nominator
- MonsterCrawler - also mp3
- MetaCrawler
- zInternet
- MacroSearchAustralian meta-search and search engines list.
- C4
- MetaFetcher
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- http://vivisimo.com/
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- See also:
- Nexor's Mac Software Catalog
- FTP search
- Infoware allows you to locate a specific business or organizational software package
- See also:
- FOUR11 Directory Services
- Perso-Search - L'outil de recherche exclusivement reserve aux Pages personnelles
- SearchBC.com - search engine for British Columbia business and personal internet ressources
- Aquent Talent Finder - The Search Engine for Independent Professionals (IPs): Freelancers, Free Agents, Contractors,
Consultants, Self-Employed.
- CityCollege - The Ultimate University and College Directory in North America
- CampusRegistry - a directory of current college students and alumni of every college in the world.
- PedagoNet - a learning resources search engine.
- INFOMINE - " INFOMINE is a nationally recognized virtual library containing expert-selected and
described links to the most useful of Internet resources for the academic and learning communities.
INFOMINE, established in 1993, has been developed by the Library of the University of California at
Riverside with the collaborative content building effort of many UC systemwide and other academic
librarians. INFOMINE has as its guiding principle the building of a public domain academic Internet
finding tool...
Currently, the INFOMINE collection contains over 20,000 links to Internet accessible databases, journals,
textbooks, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, conference proceedings, and many other types of
resources. It offers a variety of searching and browsing features, including advanced searching capabilities,
and is indexed by Library of Congress subject headings, keywords, and authors."
Diette Ward , University of California, Riverside
- See also:
- Cornell University's Technical Report Library
- Interesting:
- Conference Announcement Archive (moderated by Juergen Wagner)
- NewsGuy News Service
- See also:
- Nexor's Public Services
- RFC index at Nexor
- Internet Draft Index at Nexor
- webreference.com -- The Webmaster's Reference Library
- GoXML.com -- XML Context-based Search Processor.
- Alex -- Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts (previously Gopher Catalog of Electronic Texts)
- Buyer's Index -- Search over 6,500 mail order catalogs and WWW shopping sites
- The Net One -- Directory of business and services
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
- Speedy Pet's Internet Directory - Internet directory of company's web sites.
- AME Info - information about 200,000 companies from 13 Middle East countries.
- See also:
- WIRED Archive
- MusicFarm Search for Music
http://www.invisibleweb.com/
"This site consists of
searchable information resources which cannot be indexed by traditional
search engines. These include databases, archived material, and interactive
tools such as calculators and dictionaries. It contains over 10,000
databases and searchable sources that you may well miss if you stick to
traditional searching. Each source is analysed and summarised by editors to
ensure that you can access reliable information on hundreds of topics, from
Air Fares to global Yellow Pages." Henry Morgan, Broadside, 19th March
2003. Vol.3 No.7 & 8.
http://www.freebooter.com
http://www.freeprint.com.
" I was staggered by the high-quality information resources this site
provided the gateway to.
Want accurate economic reports and statistics? Reliable insurance ratings?
Current company information? Extensive market research reports? Venture
capital firms looking for projects to invest in? Accurate legal information
from every country under the sun? Dictionaries? Online translation tools?
Acroynym and abbreviation finders? Information on the world's airports?
Accurate maps - for anywhere on the globe? Reliable lists of sporting,
cultural, economic, technological events worldwide? I could go on and on.
You might not want any of this stuff. But I guarantee, when you do need
reliable information on a specific subject, this is your best starting
point." Henry Morgan, Broadside, 19th March 2003. Vol.3 No.7 & 8.
http://www.freebooter.com
http://searchpdf.adobe.com/
" Now there's a way to search through more than a million summaries of
Adobe® Portable Document Format (PDF) files on the Web. Your search
results will allow you to see the summaries before deciding to view the
original Adobe PDF." (website text)
The Invisible Web
http://www.teacherlibrarian.com/pages/infotech29_4.html.
http://www.apple.com/education/LTReview/fall99/invisibleweb.
New Web Map Reveals Previously Unseen Bow Toe Organizational Structure - by
Chris Sherman
http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb000522-1.htm.
- Human search -- provide human searching assistance
- SearchMill.com -- live human search
- Information Outpost
- Presence Web -- the domain name search engine
- AMNESI -- helps you find Internet server names (DNS names)
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Cosmopolitan University also strongly recommends:
All-in-One Search Page! "Over 500 of the Internet's best
search engines, databases, indexes, and directories in a single site.
The ALL-IN-ONE starting point for Internet"
DogPile Metasearch of WWW Search engines, Usenet sources, and FTP archives. That's what our staff and
students use the most!
INFOMINE - " INFOMINE is a nationally recognized virtual library containing expert-selected and described
links to the most useful of Internet resources for the academic and learning communities. INFOMINE,
established in 1993, has been developed by the Library of the University of California at Riverside with the
collaborative content building effort of many UC systemwide and other academic librarians. INFOMINE has as
its guiding principle the building of a public domain academic Internet finding tool...
Currently, the INFOMINE collection contains over 20,000 links to Internet accessible databases, journals,
textbooks, guides to the Internet for most disciplines, conference proceedings, and many other types of resources.
It offers a variety of searching and browsing features, including advanced searching capabilities, and is indexed
by Library of Congress subject headings, keywords, and authors."
Diette Ward , University of California, Riverside
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