| All
The Web |
The
world's largest search engine service, with over 575 million
full-text web documents, provides users with highly accurate
and relevant results and is built by crawling and examining
over 1.5 billion web documents, the most of any search engine |
| Alta
Vista |
The
largest traditional search engine. This engine now presents
Q&A type listings from Ask Jeeves. |
| AOL
Search |
America
Online Search |
| Inktomi |
U.C.
Berkeley's text search engine.
|
| IWON |
Internet
portal that combines world-class search, content and functionality
with the Internet's largest guaranteed cash giveaway |
| Excite |
Full
text search engine & directory. Excite also owns Magellan
and WebCrawler.
|
| Google |
Fast,
easy-to-use, and highly accurate search service |
| GO-TO
(Overture) |
Unpaid
listings only.
|
| HotBot |
This
search engine is owned by Lycos, it has a large index and
power search options. Results are powered by DirectHit,
which measures link popularity. |
| GO
Network/Infoseek |
Infoseek
now powers Disney's GO portal site. GO has a mid-sized search
index as well as a human-edited directory. GO recently announced
that it would be positioning itself as an entertainment
portal. |
| LookSmart |
LookSmart
is a human-edited directory similar to Yahoo! It provides
directory results for partners. |
| Lycos |
Lycos
is one of the oldest search tools on the Web. |
| MSN
Search |
Microsoft's
MSN portal features both directory and search engine results
generated from the Inktomi engine. |
| Netscape's
Open Directory |
Netscape
has pledged that this volunteer-edited directory is free
and available for open use. Netscape uses its results
in its Netscape Search. Alta Vista, AOL Search, Lycos,
and many others now feature ODP results.
|
| Northern
Light |
Marketed
as a researcher's search tool, Northern Light, has one of
the largest indexes of the web. |
| Snap |
Snap
is backed by CNET and NBC, it is a human-edited directory.
It recently launched a service called Live Directory. Registered
users may submit sites to Live Directory, which are usually
added within 24 hours. |
| WebCrawler |
A
small-sized directory, WebCrawler is owned by Excite but
maintains its own index. |
| Yahoo! |
The
most widely recognized Internet brand, Yahoo!, is a human-edited
directory. Its directory listings are supplemented with
search results from the Inktomi engine. |
| Plus
automated submittals to over 2000 other smaller search engines. |
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