Search Tools
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AltaVista is consistently one of the largest
search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive
coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular
favorite among researchers.
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Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service
that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question. If it
fails to find a match within its own database, then it will provide matching
web pages from various search engines.
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AOL Search allows its members to search across
the web and AOL's own content from This
version does not list AOL content.
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Sites that get clicked on more than others rise
higher in Direct Hit's rankings. Thus, the service dubs itself a
"popularity engine."
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Excite is one of the most popular search
services on the web. It offers a medium-sized index and integrates non-web
material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when
appropriate.
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Formerly called All The Web, FAST Search aims to
index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million
web page index milestone.
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Go is a portal site produced by Infoseek and
Disney. It offers portal features such as personalization and free e-mail, plus
the search capabilities of the former Infoseek search service, which has now
been folded into Go. Searchers will find that Go consistently provides quality
results in response to many general and broad searches, thanks to its ESP
search algorithm. It also has an impressive human-compiled directory of web
sites.
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Unlike other search engines, companies can pay
money to be placed higher in the search results, which GoTo feels improves
relevancy. Non-paid results come from Inktomi.
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Makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary
way to rank web sites. Helpful in finding good sites in response to general
searches.
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HotBot is another favorite among researchers due
to size and power searching features. In most cases, HotBot's first page of
results comes from the Direct Hit service, and then secondary results come from
the Inktomi and Open Directory.
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Inktomi was first used to power HotBot, but also
powers several other services. All of them tap into the same index, though
results may be slightly different. This is because Inktomi provides ways for
its partners to use a common index yet distinguish themselves. There is no way
to query the Inktomi index directly, as it is only made available through
Inktomi's partners with whatever filters and ranking tweaks they may apply.
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LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web
sites. In addition to being a stand-alone service, provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many other
partners.
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Shifted to a directory model similar to Yahoo.
Its main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary
results come from either Direct Hit or Lycos' own spidering of the web.
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LookSmart-powered directory of web sites, with secondary results
that come from AltaVista. RealNames and Direct Hit data is also made available.
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Netscape Search's results come primarily from
the Open Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database,
which does an excellent job of listing "official" web sites.
Secondary results come from Google.
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Northern Light is another favorite among
researchers. Features one of the largest indexes of the web, with the ability
to cluster documents by topic. also has a set of "special collection"
documents, including newswires, magazines and databases. Searching these
documents is free, but charge up to $4 to view them.
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Those with RealNames-enabled browsers can enter
a word like "NBC" to reach the NBC web site.
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Snap is a human-compiled directory of web sites,
supplemented by search results from Inktomi.
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WebCrawler has the smallest index of any major
search engine which maybe less overwhelming.
[22]
Yahoo is the web's most popular search
service. It is the largest
human-compiled guide to the web. Yahoo also uses Inktomi secondarily.
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Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl
the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent
to several search engines all at once. The results are then blended together
onto one page.
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Uses 13 different engines/directories and Usenet
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Doesn't eliminate duplicates.
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MetaCrawler now powers searches at the Go2Net
portal site
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It collates pages found from a slew of sites,
plus offers the winning MiniCrawler, which performs searches in a discreet
window on the desktop.
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lists results grouped by subject, rather than by
search engine or in one giant list.
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Customizable, with broken link detection
available. Controls Boolean operators for nine search sites
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Results are only average.
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Searches seven sites simultaneously.
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Does a nice job of combining the results and
reordering them using its own relevancy ratings.
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Highly customizable and covers a huge-range of
general and specialty search sites.
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Didn't impress us until we customized it.
Then&wow! You select from scores of engines or other sites to search--from
Direct Hit and Google to HotBot and AltaVista--and watch as it integrates the
results.
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Search many major search engines or a huge
number of specialty sites, all from the same place.
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Unlike metacrawlers, all-in-one search pages do
not send your query to many search engines at the same time. Instead, they
generally list a wide-variety of search engines and allow you to search at your
choice without directly from the page.
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Returns results from 4 search engines and
directories in resizable frames.
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Posts fields for searching more than 400
engines, directories, and specialized sites.
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Digs up links using seven engines/sites, deletes
duplicates, and even offers keywords to narrow your search.
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The server is slow sometimes.
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Update of Spaniel Search.
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Clean interface lets you query major services
from one page.
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An excellent and well-organized collection of
search sites, ranging from reverse phone number searches to package tracking,
as well as covering the major search engines.
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Results from each search engine appear on their
own page or can be framed within a single page.
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Nicely done guide to search engines with the
ability to query from the same page.
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Customize search results to match page.
Highlights found text in bold where it is found in the document.
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Customize results to match site. Has nice
Sitemaps and Whats new, but the results only shows beginning of each document.
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