Important Search Engines
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Amazon books, Live results |
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Index based, fairly small |
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Lots of articles on lots of things |
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Excellent for news, good for focussed searching |
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Find acronyms |
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| Social search engine | |
| Great for site statistics searches | |
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Good for background information on a site |
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Good meta engine, lots of options |
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Part of the Yahoo family |
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Oldie, but still a goodie, suprising enough |
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Good for factual information |
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Google in a different guise |
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Good for older versions of a site |
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One of the big four |
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Painfully bright yellow index engine |
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Index based, not impressed |
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Information about a website owner etc |
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Multimedia search engine |
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| Part of the Answers family | |
| Index based, not impressed | |
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Search with a human guide |
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Good all rounder |
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Personalised search engine. Very good. |
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Excellent for hidden/invisible web |
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4,000 country search engines |
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| Collection of links from a librarian | |
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Good index/directory |
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Multisearch GYMA |
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Compare GYM on one screen |
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Social search, lets users rate results. |
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Good for building your own engine |
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| Superb functionality, good advanced options | |
| Does anyone still use that any more? | |
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Factual information |
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Superb collection of engines |
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Good all round meta search engine |
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Audio/sound search engine |
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| Multi search engine, doesn't say what the sources are | |
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UK based engine, global scope |
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Index based |
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Do I need to say anything about this one? |
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Best blog search engine going |
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Same as DMOZ |
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Good for obscure information |
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Yahoo image search is superior |
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Local to the UK that is. |
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Adequate. Good for email alerts |
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Tailor results to your interests |
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Good(ish) for academic stuff |
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Who is looking for what? |
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Excellent medical search engine |
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Blast from the past! |
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Searches for people! US biased. |
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Multi search engine, strong on clustering |
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Good for blog searching |
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Index based |
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For scholarly internet resource collections |
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People search |
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Index based, bizarre collection of headings |
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Superb directory, very authoritative |
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Social search engine, vote for results |
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Excellent meta search engine |
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Business to business |
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Excellent meta search & compare results |
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Visual search engine, good reputation |
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Free text search engine, not particularly exciting |
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Children's
search engine |
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Superb resource |
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Index based, not exciting |
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One of the big 4 |
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Almost lost in the midst of time, but still trying |
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Social search engine, some like it, I don't |
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Multi
meta search engine that's been around for years |
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Calls itself #1 though I can't work out why |
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Meta search engine |
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Meta search engine |
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Visual search engine |
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Microsoft folly; annoying and pointless |
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Emphasis on hidden web academic material |
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Excellent medical search engine |
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Very unusual engine, as it searches for favicons |
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Does not stand out |
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Superb collection of Virtual Libraries |
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Selective web directory |
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First rate, uses clouds of terms. Recommended |
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Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent |
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Index/Directory web search engine |
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Accurately indicates a level of trustworthiness |
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Scientific search of web and selected journals |
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Nothing to recommend it |
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Uses Google's database |
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Search for people and companies in the US |
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Metasearch engine |
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Metasearch engine, unimpressed |
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Personalised search |
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Google test bed |
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Excellent medical search engine |
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Meta search engine |
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Index/Directory |
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Selective web directory |
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Find similar sites |
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Superb news resource |
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Full text search engine that searches DMOZ |
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Index/Directory |
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Academic authoritative content |
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Social search engine |
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Index/Directory |
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Index/Directory |
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Excellent weblog search engine |
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Index/Directory |
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Index/Directory |
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Superb video search engine |
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Great for hidden/invisible web |
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Very good multi search engine |
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| Visual search engine | |
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Visual search engine |
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Meta search engine for GYMA |
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Meta search engine, one at a time |
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Index/Directory |
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Web/Index based, not worth the trouble |
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Meta search engine |
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Second only to Pinakes |
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One of the big 4 |
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What's going on? |
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Yahoo as it used to be |
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For children |
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Local information |
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Emphasis research or shopping |
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Video engine. Use Trooker instead |
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Allows for various methods of re-ranking |
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Uses the Google database |