| Web search engines and
comments |
| A9
Amazon books, Live results |
| Abbreviations For abbreviations |
| Abcsearchengine Index based, fairly
small |
| About Lots of articles on lots of things |
| Accoona Excellent for news, good for focussed
searching |
| Acronymfinder Find acronyms |
| Aftervote Social search engine |
| Ajaxwhois Great for site statistics
searches |
| Alexa Good for background information on a
site |
| AllPlus Good meta engine, lots of
options |
| Alltheweb Part of the Yahoo family |
| Altavista Oldie, but still a goodie,
suprising enough |
| Answers Good for factual information |
| AOL Search Google in a different
guise |
| Archive, Internet Good for older versions of
a site |
| Ask One
of the big four |
| Azoos Painfully bright yellow index
engine |
| Beaucoup Index based, not impressed |
| Better Who Is Information about a
website owner etc |
| Bing Finds & organizes results interactively |
| BlinkxMultimedia search engine |
| Brainboost Part of the Answers
family |
| Buzzle Index based, not impressed |
| ChaCha Search with a human guide |
| Clusty
Good all rounder |
| Collarity Personalized search engine. Very good. |
| Complete Planet Excellent for
hidden/invisible web |
| Convert To convert from one to another |
| Country Search Engines 4,000
country search engines |
| Definitions Good for various
definitions |
| Digital-librarian Collection of
links from a librarian |
| DMOZ
(Open Directory Project) Good index/directory |
| Dogpile Multisearch GYMA |
| Draze Compare GYM on one screen |
| Ebingbong Social search, lets users rate
results. |
| Eurekster Good for building your own
engine |
| ExaleadSuperb functionality, good advanced
options |
| ExciteDoes anyone still use that any
more? |
| Factbites Factual information |
| FaganFinder Superb collection of
engines |
| Fazzle Good all round meta search engine |
| Feedster |
| Findsounds Audio/sound search engine |
| FinQoo Multi search engine, doesn't say what
the sources are |
| Freesearch UK based engine, global
scope |
| Galaxy Index based |
| Google Do I need to say anything about this
one? |
| Google Blogsearch Best blog search
engine going |
| Google Directory Same as DMOZ |
| Google Groups Good for obscure
information |
| Google Images Yahoo image search is
superior |
| Google Local Local to the UK that
is. |
| Google
News Adequate. Good for email alerts |
| Google Personalised Tailor results to your
interests |
| Google Scholar Good(ish) for academic
stuff |
| Google Trends Who is looking for
what? |
| Healia Excellent medical
search engine |
| Hotbot Blast from the past! |
| IAF People
search Searches for people! US biased. |
| iBoogie Multi search engine, strong on
clustering |
| Icerocket Good for blog searching |
| Illumirate Index based |
| InfoMine For scholarly internet resource
collections |
| Infopeople People
search |
| Infoservice Index based, bizarre collection of
headings |
| Intute Superb directory, very
authoritative |
| Irazoo Social search engine, vote for
results |
| Ixquick Excellent meta search engine |
| Jayde Business to business |
| Jux2
Excellent meta search & compare results |
| Kartoo Visual search engine, good
reputation |
| Kazazz Free text search engine, not
particularly exciting |
| KidsclickChildren's search engine |
| Librarians
Internet Index Superb resource |
| Linkopedia Index based, not exciting |
| Live
Search One of the big 4 |
| Lycos Almost lost in the midst of
time, but still trying |
| Mahalo Social search engine, some like it, I
don't |
| MammaMulti meta search engine that's been
around for years |
| Mastersite Calls itself #1 though I can't
work out why |
| Metacrawler Meta search
engine |
| Monstercrawler Meta search
engine |
| Mooter Visual search engine |
| MsDewey Microsoft folly; annoying and
pointless |
| Oaister Emphasis on hidden
web academic material |
| Omnimedicalsearch Excellent medical
search engine |
| Peerbot Very unusual
engine, as it searches for favicons |
| Pepesearch Does not stand out |
| Pinakes Superb
collection of Virtual Libraries |
| Questfinder Selective web directory |
| Quotations for Quotations |
| Quintura First rate, uses clouds of terms.
Recommended |
| RedZee
Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent |
| References Good all round resource |
| Re-quest Index/Directory web search
engine |
| Scandoo accurately indicates a level of
trustworthiness |
| Scirus Scientific search of web and
selected journals |
| Scrubtheweb Nothing to
recommend it |
| Search-beat Uses Google's database |
| Searchbug Search for people and companies
in the US |
| Search.com Metasearch engine |
| Searchhippo Metasearch engine,
unimpressed |
| Searchy Personalised search |
| Searchmash Google test bed |
| Search Medica Excellent
medical search engine |
| Searchthe.net Meta search engine |
| Searchtheweb
Index/Directory |
| Selectsurf Selective web directory |
| Similicio.us Find similar sites |
| Silobreaker Superb news resource |
| Slider Full text search engine that searches
DMOZ |
| Smartlinks Index/Directory |
| SMEALSearch Academic
authoritative content |
| Sproose Social search engine |
| Sunsteam Index/Directory |
| Supercrawler Index/Directory |
| Synonyms Good reference resource |
| Technorati Excellent weblog search
engine |
| Thenet1 Index/Directory |
| Thunderstone
Index/Directory |
| Trooker Superb video search engine |
| Turbo
10 Great for hidden/invisible web |
| TurboScout Very good multi search
engine |
| Ujiko Visual search engine |
| Zip
codes Information about US zip code areas |
| Web
Brain Visual search engine |
| Webcrawler Meta search engine for
GYMA |
| Web-search Meta search engine, one at a
time |
| Webworldindex Index/Directory |
| Whatuseek Web/Index based, not worth the
trouble |
| Windseek Meta search engine |
| WWW Virtual
Library Second only to Pinakes |
| Yahoo! One of the big 4 |
| Yahoo
Buzz What's going on? |
| Yahoo
Directory Yahoo as it used to be |
| Yahooligans For children |
| Yahoo
Local Local information |
| Yahoo Mindset Emphasis research
or shopping |
| YouTube Video engine. Use Trooker
instead |
| Zapmeta Allows for various methods of
re-ranking |
| Zensearch Uses the Google database |
