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Individual Search Engines
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- Alexa Web Search - returns results from its own index accompanied by additional information including traffic ranking, number of links to page, ownership and links to related pages of interest
- 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
- AltaVista - searches Web sites and Usenet newsgroups with advanced Boolean and field search options. See also:
- Babel Fish, the AltaVista translation service.
- 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
- Ask.com - general search engine enhanced by a number of specialty searches including a dictionary, thesaurus, currency converter, encyclopedia, maps, news and more (Site is a merging of the former search engines Ask Jeeves and Teoma)
- BananaSlug - uses the Google search mechanism and seeds your search with a random word from the category of your choice to return unusual results
- Brainboost - ask questions in plain English and retrieve pages with the relevant answer
- ChaCha - search engine that offers live human guides to help answer queries
- Exalead - offers concept clustering of results, thumbnail images of retrieved sites, and customization options such as organization of results by file type, geography or modification date
- Factbites - beta engine that searches for full topic matches and returns meaningful, full sentence excerpts of sites in its results list
- Google - ranks pages by tracking the links links from pages ranked high by the service. Google offers a number of Services that are worth exploring, including:
- Google Blog Search, for searching blog entries
- Google Book Search, for searching the full text of books from most publishers in the U.S.
- Google Directory, for searching the Google version of the Open Directory
- Google Scholar, offers the full text, abstracts, and/or citations to scholarly materials including books, journal articles, documents in academic repositories and the free Web. This link will allow you to access the full text of articles in journals to which the Libraries subscribe when you are off campus.
- Google U.S. Government Search, a searchable database of U.S. government Web sites (.gov and .mil) ranked by link popularity
- Searchmash Google's experimental general search tool
- Hakia - accepts plain English queries; derives results from the Ask.com index
- IceRocket - offers thumbnail images of retrieved sites; also saves a search history, creates an RSS feed of search results, and offers a free RSS builder
- KoolTorch - returns results organized by graphical icons into general category clusters that, in turn, generate results within that category
- Lycos - general search engine that also offers searches of a few deep Web content sources including people look-up, yellow pages and multimedia
- MSN Search - Microsoft's search engine that offers searches of the general Web as well as some deep Web sources; includes a Search Builder that includes an option to retrieve results based on recent updates, popularity and exact or approximate match. This tool will eventually be replaced by Windows Live Search.
- Quintura - displays a type of tag cloud with keywords related to your search that can be selected to generate new results
- Randomcube - crawls the Web randomly; also accepts user submissions to its index
- SearchEdu.com - service that limits results to the .edu, domain; also offers to search well-known dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, etc. See also:
- SearchGov.com - .gov domain
- SearchMil.com - .mil domain
- Ujiko - features a number of results customization tools in a visual environment that also offers topic classification for subsequent searches
- Webbrain - offers results in visual layout of related terms for subsequent searching
- Yahoo! - portal with a general Web search and many other content services
- Yahoo! Mindset allows sorting of results based on whether they are more commercial or research-oriented