Search Engines

Searh Tips by Joyce Kasman Valenza, librarian at Springfield Township High School Library, lists MANY search engines.

Search Horizonatlly - and Deep Search Engines by Joyce Kasman Valenza

Search and Reference Sites per American Numismatic Association
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  1. Kartoo.com meta-search using Flash interface effectively, produced concept maps of results! Thanks Mark Gibbs NW on WebApps 7/1/02 Updated! 7-2-2002
  2. Searchability.com thousands of search engines
  3. MetaGrid.com Search content of all newspapers, magazines Updated! 6-2-2002
  4. Jack's Search the Web, also the "official" search page of www.penn.com an ISP in Western Pennsylvania.
  5. AltaVista has indexed 150 million Web pages.
  6. Fast Search boasts indexed more than 200 million Web Sites.
  7. Google ranks pages primarily by links: pages with lots of links pointing at them or a few links from important Web sites are ranked high.
  8. Direct Hit ranks pages by hits.
  9. Open Directory has 17000 volunteer editors organizing the Web into categories. Information from Open Directory is also being used to provide the main results at Lycos and Netscape Serach
  10. LookSmart uses human editors to produce its listsing. MSN Search (MicroSoft Network) uses LookSmart listings.
  11. Ask Jeeves uses human editors to deliver highly acclaimed results.
  12. Snap also has categorized listings.
  13. Yahoo a compelling first choice due to the depth and quality of its listings.
  14. Go2Net a metasearch service that compiles results from a variety of search engines at the same time.
  15. Dogpile a metasearch service owned by Go2Net!

The above information was summarized from an October 18th, 1999 article in Network World, p. 57 by Danny Sullivan, an industry expert on search engines. He can be reached at http://calafia.com.


From the Philadelphia Inquirer (October, 1999) from Reid Goldsborough (reid_goldsborough@phillynews.com)
Allexperts.com lets you select a human volunteer to send your query to! Volunteer is chosen after drilling down to the category and then by you based on profile of the voluneer. 1500 volunteers provide answers free of charge. Some also available for fee for "more comprehensive" service. Answer may take a day or two.
XpertSite.com also employs volunteer experts.
ExpertCentral.com also employs volunteer experts.
YourCompass.com strives for total automation. When you revisit the site, it will alert you to sites it thinks you are interested in, before you ask!
TitanSearch.com promises that other sites that advertise with it will recieve prominent placement in search results!?
SurfMonkey.com child-safe surfing site that filters out porn and other no-no's. Requires download of browser add-on software.
Ah-Ha.com another child-safe search site.
HotBot designated as best all-around search site by PC Magazine.
Northern Light distinguished for its accurate Web search results (free) and its full-text database of articles from newspapers and magazines ($1 to $4 per article). New feature: it will alert you via email when it finds information you have requested.
ProFusion a "metasearch" site that feeds your search request to several other search engines and combines their results.
Search Engine Watch about search engines.
Search IQ about search engines.

LookSmart


from Web Winners, Phila Inq Dec 9, 1999: Look yourself up!
Deja.com portal to Usenet discussion groups. Use Deja Tracker service - emails you whenever there's a new message in your favorite discussion group, or on a particular subject (you).
WorldPages.com each name found comes with a map and directions to the named's address.
Self-Esteem Test must answer every question...
Spyonit.com a free service that emails or instant messages you whenever your name - or anything else you specify - pops up on a Web page or news site. Good for monitoring on-line auctions!
MusicByRequest's Search Engines Page 
Open Text 
Planet Search 
webcrawler 
Search Engine Colossus International Directory of Search Engines

Universal Forms (CUSI - Configurable Unified Search Interfaces)
All-in-One Search Page Dogpile EZ-Find at the River Internet Sleuth
Search.com WorldSearcher SiFMuG (Single Form Multiple Gateways)  

Pure Breed Meta-search Engines
Huskysearch Highway 61 Mamma of all search engines Metacrawler A Washington U project licensed to InfoSpace in 1997 InfoSpace ProFusion


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