GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

LIST OF GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES:

About - [New Window] - Directory providing highly targeted topics overseen by subject specialists dedicated to helping you get what you want quickly and easily.

AltaVista - [New Window] - AltaVista indexes the full text of Web pages, so you can find the most obscure information easily by typing specific terms: the names of movies, books, songs, companies. alta vista

Ask Jeeves! - [New Window] - Search the web in plain English and receive a concise list of answers with their exact location.

Direct Hit - [New Window] - Search results organized according to their relevancy to previous Internet searchers who were looking for similar information.

Excite - [New Window] - General portal and search engine.

Fast - [New Window] - Advanced search functionality allows users to quickly pinpoint precisely the information they seek.

Google - [New Window] - A Search engine that provides query results based on the number and quality of links to a web site in addition to search terms.

HotBot - [New Window] - HotBot provides a streamlined yet powerful starting point for searching the Internet. FAST, Inktomi, and Teoma, results are provided.

Lycos - [New Window] - A leading web portal combining Web search and navigation resources, deep content in vertical areas, communications and personalization tools, and a complete shopping center.

BIng - [New Window] - Microsoft's search engine. Part of the MSN portal.

Northern Light Search - [New Window] - Search engine which enables you to search the Web and information from premium sources. Web results are combined with information from premium material in one search, giving you access to books, magazines, databases, and newswires.

SearchHippo - [New Window] - Provides a crisp and clean web search experience. Results from spidered sites are ordered based on a variety of factors including link-to frequency, clicked-on frequency, and URL directory depth.

SurfWax

Switchboard - [New Window] - Internet directory. Yellowpages, whitepages, and phonebook. Look up businesses online, look up people, find addresses and phone numbers. Also provides zip codes, maps and directions.

Yahoo! - [New Window] - A searchable directory of Internet web sites organized in a vast collection of categories and sub-categories.

4anything.com - [New Window] - A network of web guides for anything you are seeking. The web guides provide listings of the best that the Internet offers on each topic.

A9.com - [New Window] - A9.com offers users search results from five powerful information sources, which are presented through convenient selectable and adjustable columns: Web and image search provided by Google, book text of more than 100,000 titles from Amazon.com's Search Inside The Book, movie information from the Internet Movie Database, and reference information (encyclopedia, dictionary, etc.) through GuruNet.com. Additionally, A9.com is a search engine with a memory as it returns results from the user's information, so with every search, users will see results from their own history, bookmarks, and diary.

AOL Search

AtoZ.com - [New Window] - Categorized links of web sites.

Cannylink - [New Window] - Web directory.

Clickey - [New Window] - The Internet's first domain name only search engine, allowing you to find web sites by keywords, country, state and city.

Cuil - [New Window] - Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When we find a page with your keywords, we stay on that page and analyze the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page's coherency. Then we offer you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there.

eFind.com - [New Window] - Search engine with an instant chance to win cash and prizes.

Entireweb.com - [New Window] - Search engine that strives to provide all the information that you'll need.

Factbites - [New Window] - Factbites presents the user with full, meaningful sentences from every site in the search results. This means that you can often gain a great deal of factual information on a topic without ever having to leave the search page.