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World’s Top 100 Search engines

Here's a collection of search engines and resources to slake your thirst for information. If you cannot find what you are looking for using one of these, chances are that they do not exist on the Web. Since this page was started, many search engines and directory services have gone into partnership. However, little effort has been used to re-classify as most retained their original names.

AOLAnywhere

Search engine and directory from AOL. Used to be NetFind. Features regional search. Fast.

AltaVista

An all-time great, super fast. Has news service from ABC; a translation service and incorporates Looksmart directories.

Ask Jeeves

Make queries using plain English. "Uses sophisticated natural language processing to understand and match users' questions to an extensive knowledge base." Often throws up links you'd never thought of looking for. Has been licensed by many other services.

BigBook

North American yellow pages.

Cyber411

Fast meta-searcher, returning comprehensive results from various other search engines

EiNet Galaxy

Categorized search

Eureka

A common interface to a collection of the best search engines. Also contains description about each of the featured search engines

EuroPages

European business directory listing

Excite

Searches based on concepts and keywords with very useful 'more of this' feature. Good for exploratory searches. Now has a UK site. Seems that it has also merged with/taken over the old Magellan site.

Global Online Directory

Another UK based categorized Web site searcher

Go.com

Formerly INFOSEEK. Search categories include news, education, business, etc.

Google

Good fast search engine

GoTo.com

Fast searcher (formerly the World Wide Web Worm)

HotBot

Searches the entire Web, if a site is registered, then it will be found. Fast and comprehensive once connected.

Looksmart

A directory service, also integrated into AltaVista from Readers Digest. Has UK site.

Lycos

Another favorite with loads of indexed pages, including a directory of popular sites.

Mamma

A meta-search engine that sends queries to a number of search engines then organizes the responses and presents them according to relevance and source. Quite good.

Mirago

Launched in 1999, this is a search engine with a bias towards UK content (about time!). Easy to use, very quick and has a number of unique search options.
Gets at least

Nerd World

Categorized search, not bad.

Northern Light

A neat search engine that places your search results into folders to let you quickly home in on your criteria. A bit slow though.

Open Directory Project

It's goal is to "goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors". Replaces NewHoo.

OpenText

Often throws up links that others miss.

Planet Search

Seems good, haven't used it in anger yet. For the moment,

Profusion

A meta-searcher, simultaneously searches and returns results from 9 internet search engines. Users can choose which search engines to used, including things like "fastest"; "best".

SavvySearch

Another meta-searcher, simultaneously searches and returns results from several internet search engines. Tells you which engine returned a result. Part of cnet.com. Quite good.

Search.COM

A meta-search engine plus directory. Searches can be directed to "true" search engines or to "directories" and can be customized according to country. Can be confusing to first time user.

Scoot

Directory of businesses in the UK, Netherlands, Belgium and France. Much like yellow pages.

SearchFound

Another good, no frills search engine, which returns quite relevant results.
(thanks to Fozia for telling me about this resource)

Snap

A directory service, which can be personalized by users. It has a "speed" feature that presents more information to users with high speed internet connections. Strangely, all the UK stuff is listed under England!?!

Starting Point

A meta-search engine

The European Directory

Searches European Internet sites, including those in the UK

The Informant

A search tool with a difference. You enter your search criteria, and web sites you want to monitor and it sends the results to you via email. Uses AltaVista, Excite, InfoSeek and Lycos although you can only specify one engine per search criterion. A neat

The Nell Register

A search engine for locating products and company info.

The Ultimate Homepage Index

Another meta-search system, that submits your queries to 11 search engines including Usenet News sites. But its up to you to go into each of the respective search sites to view the results. Saves time going to each one, but consolidation of results would be nice.

Thunderstone

A site catalog, with generating results quite quickly. Categorizes sites instead of pages. However, it seems limited at the moment (still experimental Aug. 98) and results seem to return mainly commercial sites.

UK Directory

Directory search engine for locating UK based resources and companies

UK Index

As name implies, only indexes UK sites, can be slow

USA Today

News, arts, entertainment, etc. in the USA

WebCrawler

A comprehensive categorized search facility.

Webtop

Replaces the old Euro Ferret. Quite fast and comprehensive.

What-U-Seek

Claims to support "natural language" queries, but turns up all kinds of weird results. Seem to rely heavily on Yahoo directories

Yahoo

The classic with categorized sites, one of the first and most extensive. Very popular, so can be slow. Use the Yahoo's UK and Ireland site to search for local information.

Yell

BT's Yellow Pages online (slow for a UK based service … too popular??)

Yellow Web

Another categorized search of European Web sites

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