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Search Engines
Search Engine
In the search engine list below, Search Engine Watch provides a guide to the major search engines of the web. Why are these considered to be “major” search engines? Because they are either well-known or well-used.
For webmasters, the major search engines are the most important places to be listed, because they can potentially generate so much traffic.
Top Choices
The search engines below are all excellent choices to start with when searching for information.
Google
Google provides the option to find more than web pages, however. Using on the top of the search box on the Google home page, you can easily seek out images from across the web, discussions that are taking place on Usenet newsgroups, locate news information or perform product searching.
Yahoo
Launched in 1994, Yahoo is the web’s oldest “directory,” a place where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to crawler-based listings for its main results. These came from Google until February 2004.
AltaVista and AllTheWeb was combined with that of Inktomi, a crawler-based search engine that grew out UC Berkeley and then launched as its own company in 1996, to make the current Yahoo crawler. Yahoo purchased Inktomi in March 2003.
Ask
Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the “natural language” search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything.
AllTheWeb.com
Powered by Yahoo, you may find AllTheWeb a lighter, more customizable and pleasant “pure search” experience than you get at Yahoo itself. The focus is on web search, but news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search are also offered.
AOL Search
AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google’s crawler-based index. Indeed, the same search on Google and AOL Search will come up with very similar matches. So, why would you use AOL Search? Primarily because you are an AOL user. The “internal” version of AOL Search provides links to content only available within the AOL online service. In this way, you can search AOL and the entire web at the same time. The “external” version lacks these links. Why wouldn’t you use AOL Search? If you like Google, many of Google’s features such as “cached” pages are not offered by AOL Search.
HotBot
HotBot provides easy access to the web’s three major crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and Teoma. Unlike a meta search engine, it cannot blend the results from all of these crawlers together. Nevertheless, it’s a fast, easy way to get different web search “opinions” in one place.
AltaVista
AltaVista opened in December 1995 and for several years was the “Google” of its day, in terms of providing relevant results and having a loyal group of users that loved the service.
Gigablast
Compared to Google, Yahoo or even Teoma, Gigablast has a tiny index of the web. However, the service is constantly gaining new and interesting features.
LookSmart
LookSmart is primarily a human-compiled directory of web sites. It gathers its listings in two ways. Commercial sites pay to be listed in its commercial categories, making the service very much like an electronic “Yellow Pages.”
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