Search
Engines:
MetaSearch Engines
Search Engine
Collections
Deep Web Search Engines
Domain Name Search
FTP Search
Multimedia and Images Search
New Page Trackers
Individual Search
Engines
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Accumo  -
organized results from Google into concept clusters; also offers
the fee-based Accumo Classifier software for desktop use
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Alexa Web Search - returns results powered by
Google with additional information including traffic
ranking, number of links to page, ownership and links to related
pages of interest
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AllTheWeb - returns results quickly from an extremely large
database gathered by the Yahoo crawler; offers multimedia and
news searches; has a good advanced search interface
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AltaVista - searches Web sites and Usenet newsgroups with
advanced Boolean and field search options. See also:
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AOL Search - engine that defaults to AND logic and offers an
Options template for easy search construction; has an option to
view results by popularity; offers a directory based on the
Open Directory
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Ask Jeeves - submit questions in plain English and view
suggested relevant sites; also offers the
Open Directory ranked in order of popularity
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Google - ranks pages by tracking the links links from pages
ranked high by the service, including results from the
Open Directory Project. Google offers a number of
Services & Tools that are worth exploring, including:
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HotBot - offers easy form-based Boolean, field, and media
search options; includes its channel content with the results
for searches on broad or popular terms; clusters results by
presenting one hit per site
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iLOR - presents results from other search services and
offers options to view and manipulate results in various ways.
NOTE: options are available when you download the free software
HydraLinks
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Lycos - emphasizes search results from the
Open Directory and offers Web sites from the
FAST Search index
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MSN Search - derives results from a variety of sources,
including the
LookSmart directory,
Ask Jeeves and others; applies concept matching to search
statements; and offers an advanced search option with form-based
field searching similar to HotBot
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NetNose - users rate search terms relevant to Web sites to
determine the engine's content and rankings
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RLIN AMC database - the RLIN Archival and Manuscripts
Control database
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SearchEdu.com - service that limits results to the .edu,
domain; also offers to search well-known dictionaries,
encyclopedias, almanacs, etc. See also:
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SmartBorg - engine that parses your query and recommends a
search engine and/or directory to search
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Subjex - "dialogue-based" engine that offers Web sites in
response to a series of questions you can ask to progressively
refine your search; currently in beta
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Thunderstone Website Index - search thousands of sites (vs.
Web pages) from a continuously updated database
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Teoma - returns results in three sections: popularity-ranked
Web pages based on the number of same-subject pages that
reference them; suggested terms to refine a search; and link
collections created by topic experts
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WISEnut - offers a large database and a companion directory
of topics related to a search
Meta Search Engines
Retrieve Collated Results (limited number with
duplicates removed)
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Chubba - search the Web, a dictionary/thesaurus and
encyclopedia
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Copernic - client software that searches multiple engines
and directories, removes duplicates and dead links, highlights
search terms in your results, and offers a variety of search and
retrieval options
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Dogpile - search 20+ search engines and retrieve results by
relevance or separate source engine; also presents concept
clusters for viewing results organized by keywords or topics
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FastSeeks -
retrieves results from a variety of directories and search
engines as well as its own directory; its directory may also be
browsed
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Fazzle - searches several search services on the Web, and
also offers specialty searches of downloads, images, video and
other topics on the deep Web
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GenieKnows - searches 25+ engines and directories and ranks
results based on the number of sources listing a page; chooses
sources to search based on consumer input; also offers searches
of multimedia types
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iBoogie - offers searches of the Web and multimedia, and
supplies real-time concept clustering of results
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InfoGrid - offers meta and news searching; portal interface
also features the Open Directory, topical InfoGrids, with
additional customization of topics available in a free download
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Infonetware - categorizes search results into component
subtopics with options to select multiple topics for a new set
of topics and a filtered results list
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Ithaki - searches engines, directories, and also numerous
deep Web sources
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Ixquick - search engines, directories, news and MP3 files;
ranks results based on top ten rankings from the source sites;
allows any type of search syntax and will translate and direct
your search accordingly
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Kartoo - categorizes content into relevant concepts and
sites and displays results on a graphical map; requires Flash or
offers an
HTML version
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KillerInfo - retrieves information from the general Web and
various topic-specific sources and organizes results into
concept clusters based on
Vivisimo's technology
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Mamma - retrieve results in relevancy ranked order; power
search offers a user-friendly template for building a query
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MetaCrawler - retrieve results in relevancy ranked order;
useful power search available with a template of search options
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METAEUREKA - sorts results by relevancy and offers a "Site
info" link that returns information on the server, date last
modified, size, and descriptive information if available; also
links to site history via the Wayback Machine and popularity
ratings from Alexa
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Metor - searches multiple engines, directories and
databases; offers the option to see the size, date and
availability of the document, to extract the context of your
search terms within the document, and to navigate user-selected
results within a frame
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Pandia Search Central - searches multiple engines and
directories and also offers searches of news, books, music,
videos and other specialty databases; includes a searchable
version of the
Open Directory
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ProFusion - meta engine that allows results to be sorted by
relevance, title and URL; offers topic-based vertical search
groups for targeted searching
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Query Server - offers queries of the general Web, or health,
money or government sites and organizes results by concept, by
site, or by both
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SurfWax - offers options to see a quick view of sites in the
search results list to determine relevancy and choose
alternative search terms for a subsequent search from a
thesaurus; offers personalization options
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Turbo10 - retrieves results from multiple sources, including
the deep Web, and offers sorting by speed and relevance; also
offers concept clusters to organize results into keywords and
subtopics
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Verio Metasearch - retrieves the top ten hits from each
source engine and directory in combined ranked order
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Virtual Learning Resources Center - searches several high
quality directories; also offers its own directory
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Vivisimo - searches multiple engines and directories and
organizes results into topical categories
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ZapMeta - organizes results by relevance, popularity, title,
source or domain, allows users to set preferences, and features
a useful advanced search interface
Retrieve Results From Each Site Separately (more
comprehensive results)
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Researchville - opens multiple browser windows with search
results from the originating search service; searchable
categories includes news, Web guides, reference, opinion and
multimedia
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Webtaxi - use a helpful template to build search types and
access your results separately at each site; click on "Search"
button for numerous meta-search options
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yw metasearch - select up to four search engines or
directories and view the results in a side-by-side display
Search Engine
Collections
[Many also include directories]
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Beaucoup - compilation of 2000+ engines and directories
organized by category; also offers a meta search capability
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EZ-Fund - search 12 search engines individually from the
same site
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General Internet Search Programs - compiled by BUBL Link
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Lookoff - offers a categorized collection of search services
on the Web; also allows you to query the collection and retrieve
suggested search services to use
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MetaIQ - multi-purpose site that serves as a meta engine, a
directory of searchable databases on the Web, a news source and
more
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SearchBug.com - offers searches organized by topic, and
searching of single or multiple search services
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Search Engine Colossus - directory of hundreds of search
tools from more than 200 countries around the world
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Search Engine Guide - topical collection of 3000+ engines,
directories and portals
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SearchIQ - categorized collection of engines and directories
from the SearchIQ search engine informational site
Specialty Search Engines
Deep Web
The so-called "deep" or "invisible" Web
consists of content stored in searchable databases mounted on the
Web. These databases usually cover a targeted topic or aspect of a
topic. Search engine spiders cannot or will not index this
information. There is a huge number of searchable databases on the
Web. The following is a selection of sites that collect searchable
databases on the Web.
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CompletePlanet - offers searchable access to thousands of
databases on the "deep Web" for results that include summaries
from the retrieved site
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Direct Search - large compilation of links to the search
interfaces of a wide variety of research resources on the Web
compiled by Gary Price
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Invisible-web.net - searchable directory of quality
databases on the Web compiled by Chris Sherman and Gary Price as
a companion to their book The Invisible Web: Uncovering
Information Sources Search Engines Can't See
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ProFusion - meta engine that also offers searches of
multiple "vertical search sources" on the deep Web organized
into topical categories
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Search.Com - dozens of topic-based databases from CNet
Domain Names
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Checkdomain.com - search for the availability of a domain
name in nearly every country of the world
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Clickey - search for words contained in a domain name, or
keywords contained in a brief record, with options to limit
searches to a country, state and city
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Namedroppers.com - allows searches for domain names with
multiple keywords and the ability to limit to .com, .net, .org
and .edu domains; results link to the domain's Web site when
available and to the InterNIC Whois record
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Registry Whois Search - search the database of registered
domain names on the site of Network Solutions, the company that
registers many domain names
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Whois Finder -
domain search service that supports most top-level domains
FTP Search Tools
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FileWatcher.org - FTP search engine with useful advanced
options for constructing searches and ordering results
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Ftpsearchengines.com - "file finding portal" listing FTP
sites on the Web
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Oth Net - searches multiple FTP sites by keyword
Multimedia & Images
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AltaVista Image Finder - searchable collection of multimedia
on the Web: search by media type: images, videos or audios
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The Amazing Picture Machine - searchable collection of a
variety of image types including architecture, animals, maps,
artwork, world leaders and more
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Ditto - offers searches for images by word or phrase
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FindSounds.com - searchable collection of sounds and sound
effects on the Web, with options to hear similar sounds, and to
search for sounds by mono/stereo, resolution, sample rate and
file size
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Lycos Multimedia Search - search tool for audio, video and
pictures
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Picsearch - offers image searching by word and phrase; also
offers and advanced search for animations/non-animations,
color/black & white, and size
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Singingfish - searches streaming content including music,
movies, news, radio, sports, television and finance
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SpeechBot - experimental search engine of popular U.S. radio
shows, offering the option to listen to an audio clip containing
your search terms
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TimePix - commercial site offering free access to more than
22 million photos, prints and illustrations taken from popular
Time-Life magazines and the historical Mansell photograph
collection; registration required
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Yahoo! News Image Gallery - presents current news photos and
a searchable directory of archived news photos
New Page Tracking
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Google Alert - free e-mail alert service to save a search
and have it run regularly against new pages on Google
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Karnak - searches hundreds of Web sites, stores the results
online, and e-mails you notification of the results; premium
fee-based service tracks additional queries and offers
customization options
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TracerLock - saves your search query and tracks AltaVista
for pages matching your search terms; the first ten results are
sent to you in an e-mail
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Webspector - software that tracks changes to a user-defined
list of Web pages and highlights areas of the pages that have
changed; email alerts can also be sent
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