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  • Aesop Search - The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.
  • All Academic - An academic search engine offering access to journals, working papers, convention papers and magazine articles.
  • AllTheWeb - Search with a simple interface and huge database. Also offers news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search. Uses the Open Directory category structure to create the 'Fast Topics' option in search results.
  • AltaVista - The default search results consist of Overture and results from the Altavista spider. Displays related searches. Offers translation services and multimedia searches.
  • Amfibi - General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
  • Ask Jeeves - The polite butler answers questions asked in plain English. Search the web, news or shopping. If there is no good match in its own database, Jeeves offers top Looksmart results. There is also an option to browse the Open Directory.
  • Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads - A complaint filed with the US Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads.
  • DeepIndex - European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
  • Entireweb.com - The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database. Also offers a free download of a Windows-based metasearch.
  • Estimating the Relative Size and Overlap of Public Web Search Engines - Research paper by Krishna Bharat and Andrei Broder of HP Systems Research Center.
  • Feedster - Search engine for RSS feeds. Includes an amalgamation of images recently posted to blogs.
  • Gigablast - A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search option including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature.
  • Infosniff.com - A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
  • Kazooma.com - Uses a database seeded from Open Directory listings.
  • Official Search - Searchable directory of the authorized web sites of companies, organizations, celebrities, government and sports.
  • Openfind - Taiwan-developed engine with a huge database. Users can rank results by relevance score, date or size, or search only newly crawled pages. Choice of English and Chinese interface and 22 languages.
  • Scrub The Web - Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
  • Search Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article form the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users.
  • SearchHippo - Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
  • Teoma - Using the same database as Ask Jeeves, it ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
  • TrueSearch - A search engine with a simple interface.
  • Twi.gs - An Italian-run search engine with a medium-sized database, plus free classified ads. Features a domain search, which finds words in a domain name.
  • Walhello - Search engine developed in the Netherlands, with a novel feature - results show if a site contains multimedia. It has a directory using ODP data and results include ODP categories.
  • WiseNut - Index of 1.5 billion pages. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
  • Yuntis - A next-generation search engine being developed as a research project at the Experimental Computer Systems Lab, Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook.
  • Zerx - You can view sites related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site.
  • Search our Wiki for Searching Search Engines - Find more information about this subject by clicking here

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Last update : 2003-06-26 23:31:01

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