Search Engines Searching Internet

Search Engines Searching Internet

A search engine is a Web site connected to a database that catalogs other Web sites. It will search the actual text of other Web sites for you. A computer search program, or spider, follows links on Web pages to regularly and automatically rebuild this database.

Top: Computers: Internet: Searching: Search Engines

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Scrub The Web - Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
Mojeek - Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising. Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal search index.
Mozdex - Uses open source search technologies and an index seeded from the Open Directory.
Hakia - Ontological semantic and natural language processing (NLP) based search engine.
Searchme - Visual search engine featuring social bookmarking and organizational tools.
Amfibi - General search engine which includes its own index of websites.
Ulysseek - A straightforward search engine with a simple interface.
Efficient, Automatic Web Resource Harvesting - Research paper which offers a solution for increased indexing efficiency. [PDF]
FactBites.com - A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The results return complete, informative sentences about the search topic. Related topics are suggested.
Entireweb - The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
Searchles, Inc - Offers social search features (allowing others' opinions to influence your results) and allows users to tag, group and save links.
ChaCha - This search engine is a fusion of computer technology and human intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide additional assistance in finding relevant results.
Mahalo - Human compiled and edited search engine.
Wotbox - Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.
Cuil - Search engine with results shown with images and a drill-down menu. General feature, webmaster and investor information.
Searchii - Delivers combined meta results and proprietary index search results from Searchii's Bumby web crawler.
Kalooga - A search engine for finding images on the web, specializes in finding gallery pages.
Ms. Dewey - Search engine with a touch of humor that plays prerecorded movie clips of a female actress to entertain you while searches are being performed.
SearchHippo - Indexes 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.
Middlespot - Provides a unique search interface for saving, annotating, and sharing search results.
Cluuz - Web search engine featuring semantic cluster graphs, image extraction, and tag clouds.
Lexxe - Processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions.
Search 2.0 - Weblog dedicated to coverage of the next generation of search engines and new technologies from the original players with tips, tricks, and tutorials on how to search more effectively.
Bing - Microsoft's "knowledge engine" combining traditional web search with data from other sources.

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