| AOL Search |
AOL Search automatically searches the best and most likely sources of relevant information. |
| AltaVista |
AltaVista is one of the largest search engines on the web in terms of the number of web pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands make it a favorite among researchers |
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Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that directs you to the exact page that answers your question. If it fails to find a match within its own database, it will provide matching web pages from various search engines. |
| Direct Hit |
Direct Hit measures what people click on in the search results presented. Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher in their rankings. |
| Excite |
Excite is one of the more popular search services on the web. It offers a large index of web pages and integrates non-web material such as company information when appropriate. It also offers many portal features. |
| Go / InfoSeek |
Go is a portal site produced by Infoseek and Disney, offering features such as personalization, free e-mail, and search capabilities. |
| GoTo |
GoTo sells its main listings. Companies can pay to be placed higher in the search results. |
| Google |
Google is a search engine that makes use of link popularity as a way to rank web sites. Google has a huge index of the web and provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. It's fast and easy to use. |
| HotBot |
HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many powerful searching features. |
| iWon |
iWon is owned by CBS and has a directory of web sites generated by Inktomi, which also provides its more traditional crawler-based results. |
| LookSmart |
LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. |
| Lycos |
Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came from spidering the web. |
| MSNSearch |
Microsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart-powered directory of web sites, with secondary results that come from Inktomi. RealNames and Direct Hit data is also made available. |
| NBCi |
NBCi, formerly known as Snap, is a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi. |
| NetScape Search |
Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own "Smart Browsing" database. |
| Northern Light |
The Northern Light research engine uses patented classification intelligence and precision relevancy ranking to improve Web searching. |
| Open Directory |
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. |
| Raging Search |
Operated by AltaVista, Raging Search uses the same core index as AltaVista and virtually the same ranking algorithm with no portal features. |
| RealNames |
The RealNames system is meant to be an easier-to-use alternative to the current web site addressing system. |
| WebCrawler |
WebCrawler has the smallest index of any major search engine on the web. However, WebCrawler provides less overwhelming results in response to searches |
| Yahoo |
Yahoo is the web's largest and most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. |