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SEARCH ENGINES
Search Engines are a way of finding things you request on the Internet, or, failing that, finding loads of other things you will get interested in on the Internet.
Another idea is looking things up in alphabetical order * (especially shops!)
GOOGLE: www.google.com also see this review: Google here
Something a bit different? GOBANGO
Flat share search engine House Pals
ALTAVISTA: Altavista IMPROVED review (site reference: www.altavista.com)
LYCOS: www.lycos.co.uk (also see Lycos affiliate page)
WWW.37.COM: www.37.com ("searches thirty-seven other search engines")
NORTHERN LIGHT: www.northernlight.com
EXCITE: www.excite.com
HENOO: Travel Search Engine
C4 TOTAL SEARCH: www.c4.com - gone?
ASK JEEVES: www.ask.com ()
WhatUseek: http://whatuseek.com
ASTALAVISTA: www.astalavista.com ("underground search engine")
GOOGLE LINUX: www.google.com/linux
ALEXA: www.alexa.com - also see Zyra at Alexa ... and now there's something similar at Quantcast
All 4 One MetaSearch! ("combining the power of all the worlds best search engines into one") - http://all4one.searchallinone.com/ (gone)
A few found at i need hits ...
www.subjex.net
www.towersearch.com
http://www.aesop.com or www.exactseek.com
www.SearchAve.com
( http://www.searchengine.com )
( http://www.findonce.co.uk )
INFOSEEK: www.infoseek.com
UKWIZZ: www.ukwizz.co.uk or www.ukwizz.com
MS SEARCH: http://beta.search.msn.com/
WEBCRAWLER: www.webcrawler.com
MEGASPIDER: www.megaspider.com <- caution! Previously loads of "make this your homepage" instances. Be careful! See HOW TO RECLAIM YOUR HOMEPAGE
METASPIDER: www.metaspider.com
OINGO: www.oingo.com - taken over by http://www.appliedsemantics.com/ and then taken over by Google
FAST Search: www.alltheweb.com
HOTBOT: www.hotbot.com
DIRECT HIT: www.directhit.com (gone?!)
SNAP: www.snap.com
Netscape Search: http://search.netscape.com
Looksmart: www.looksmart.co.uk (gone?!)
Freesearch: www.freesearch.co.uk (gone?!)
411web: www.411web.com - vertical portals
YAHOO!: www.yahoo.com - fallen out of favour because of Yahoo Problems
MSN: Microsoft www.msn.com
MATILDA: - making sure of URL
IXQUICK: www.ixquick.com
DOGPILE: www.dogpile.com
COPERNIC: www.copernic.com
SLIDER: www.slider.com
GOPHER: www.gopher.com
VOILA: www.voila.fr
WISENUT: www.wisenut.com
MIRAGO: www.mirago.co.uk
CLUB-EUROPA SEARCH ENGINE: http://212.184.71.242:555/ (broken link for many months) <= See special note
ASK THE WABBIT: www.wabbit.co.uk
VALID SEARCH: www.validsearch.com
www.lukol.com - gone?
www.overture.com was goto.com
http://search2.cometsystems.com/
e-Anvil.com (Gone - was http://www.e-anvil.com )
WoYaa! African search engine
MetaSearchAt - gone - was http://metasearchat.com/
Also trying to figure out how to put links in to:
Ah-Ha.com and eFamily.com
AllRefer - reference directory
LinkNZ - New Zealand Search Engine - was www.linknz.co.nz - please tell us if this returns!
Special-purpose search engines:
BibliOz and BiblioQuest: search engines for books
FIND SOUNDS: www.findsounds.com
FIND BATTERIES: MDS
FIND FLIGHTS/HOLIDAYS/VACATIONS: Opodo
The 3 Click LIVE Flight Search: Airfares Basement
Book Search Engine: Amazon
FIND A TUNE: http://name-this-tune.com
A Lot of Organics.co.uk - the UK Organics search engine.
AGRICULTURAL SEARCH ENGINE: - was http://agricultureinformation.com/cgi-bin/dir/search
Submit your website to search engines HERE
Having trouble with search engines? Here's the problems explored more in Problems with Search Engines ! For an illustrative example see The Mystery of Stamp Demon
Trying to find a person somewhere in the world? Good luck on the search engines, and remember that there is a knack to using search engines which isn't obvious. But if you need to find someone and you aren't getting anywhere with this, how about trying People-Finder?
You used to be able to make yourself look like a search engine! See How to create your own DIY Search-Box
How to Find Stuff * Useful