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General Search Engines and Directories
About About.com uses “professional Guides” to research and collect over a million useful sites in over 700 topic areas. About.com is a great place to start a web inquiry as long as you’re not looking for anything to specific. Think of it as a resource library for popular subjects. Aesir Custom Search Use filters to customize output from search engines. AlltheSites You can expect similar results to Alltheweb. 
Has one of the largest databases. Good for specific searches if you don't mind wading through tons of listings. 
ATTNet Uses Direct Hit to bring you the most visited sites for your keywords. Bomis.Com Internet ring index with adult emphasis. CompletePlanet A searchable directory of search resources. Claims that 100,000 searchable databases exist on the net and has over 17,000 in its present database. Cozy Cabin Very basic "clean" search engine with finite scope. 
Direct Hit If you are looking for the most popular sites by keyword then this site maybe for you. 
Excites features, its personalized page with news and portfolio tracking are tops. Fast Search Using its spider this search engine is working to collect a billion urls. To date their database has 300 million making it the largest of the search engines. First-Search A search engine that limits results to the first page of a site. Galaxy Global Online Directory European engine. Search for web sites by country, state, province, county or even city by city narrowing down the information and creating a more accurate result. GloStart Best sites on the net updated daily. Go Easy way to search news, newsgroups. 
Its robot collects pages whether they've been submitted or not making it a very comprehensive engine. Technically its not a meta search engine but it functions like one. Now searches Netscape's Open Project Directory in addition to its own database. Ranks sites by number of incoming links and the popularity of referring sites. Findings are highly relevant, particularly for searches with two or more words. Goto.com Fast engine where placement is determined not by relevancy but by how much sites pay for their listing. Search and find out which sites are paying the most for your eyeballs. GTE SuperPages A form of yellow pages. Search businesses by category. HandiLinks Organized into sub categories/ directories. 
HotBot it is one of the better individual search engines and includes advanced search options on the homepage! HumanSearch Use a human being to answer your question. For $8, they'll find what the is answer to any question. 
IOPORT Searches the open resource project database. IWon Jayde A searchable directory with a small (750,000) selection of sites. Kanoodle Highest bidder gets the top listing in this search engine. 
A dumbed down version of Altavista's search engine. In addition uses RealNames and DirectHit. 
Brings together data from FAST, Direct Search and the Open Project Directory. MapQuest More of a specialty search engine. MapQuest provides printable maps of north america along with lots of other travel information. 
A dumbed down version of excite without the many free features that excite offers. MangaSeeker Maxisearch MOSHIx2 Japanese and English search engine. 
One Word. Microsoft. NBCi NetQuantum Category based search engine. Netscape Netscape uses the Open Project Directory database. 
Northern Light uses its own propietary database covering 220 million web pages and 20 million articles. Oingo Attempts to improve relevancy via menu options provided with each search term on your results page. This allows you to refine your search further based on a specific meaning for each search term. Worth a look! Open Directory Project The goal of this new engine is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, and its well on its way to accomplishing this goal. Similar to Yahoo, listings are organized by category and reviewed by editors, though the Open Directory Project relies on a vast army of volunteer editors. While Yahoo can take months to include submissions are usually included in the Open Directory Project within weeks. Pandia New search engine using Netscape's open project directory. Includes a meta search function. Pathfinder Search the Time Inc.'s database of articles from Time, Fortune, People, Money, Entertainment Weekly, ParentTime, Ask Dr. Ruth Weil, and more. A limited database but has lots of useful information. Radar In English and Spanish. Raging A plain vanilla ad free search engine running off of Altavista’s database of 350 million pages. Results are similar to Altavista but appear to show somewhat higher relevancy, especially as you move down the search results page. Saluki Search A Family friendly search engine. Still growing its database. Stop by and suggest appropriate sites. Scrub the Web 
Search Engines Galore Search the Australian and New Zealand Internet. Search4Info Search King Sites ranked based on surfer votes. Snoopa Uses the quality Inktomi database with similar features to Hotbot's advanced search function but without the graphic layout of Hotbot. Super Snooper Filters out sites to do with obscenity, drug-promotion or bigotry. Thunderstone Indexes sites, not individual pages. TopClick Uses the Goolge engine with similar high caliber results. Offers the additional promise of protecting your privacy. "Our Private Search Engine will never deliver an unsolicited banner advertisement to you. It will also never use cookies or other invasive Personal Profiling technologies to build any personal profiles on your search requests." Twirlix Twirlix is working hard to make the search process easier. Unique features include a 5 dot "quality" rating system, site homepage thumbnail, and separation of listings into "Top Matches' and "Further Matches". For those of us who are more visually oriented, this search engine's organization is a big step forward. USA Online Search by State. Voila European based search engine. 
Uses the same database as Excite. WebHelp Real-time, human assisted search engine. WebScout WebTop Clean layout to this search engine providing the first paragraph of text from the document. Using their downloadable software you can drag and drop text from word processing and other documents for searching. 
WebZone Limited database but provides a preview function. This lets you view text information from sites without having to wait for graphics to download. You can buy your way to a top placement. Why Preview version of new search engine that allows users to rate sites. Like Direct Hit. Why uses a modified version of the Open Project Directory dataset. WildDomain Guide to the most popular web sites by six core categories with pull down menus of sub categories. What-u-seek 
Yahoo is one of the easiest ways to find information on the web. Because Yahoo is a directory, not a search engine, its possible to look up information by categories. Though it has one of the smaller databases listings are consistently of the highest quality, one reason Yahoo is by far the most popular way to find information on the web.  Yahoo People Search
ZenSearch Provides unbiased search engine that returns the most relevant web sites, with the best content. |
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