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All the Web
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AlltheWeb.com combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
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AltaVista
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AltaVista offers a clean interface for searching the Web, images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory, and News. This site also includes Babel Fish Translation for translating a block of text. Search results come from Yahoo.
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Answers.com
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Answers.com is a free, ad-supported, reference search service, created to provide you with instant answers on over a million topics. As opposed to standard search engines that serve up a list of links for you to follow, Answers.com displays quick, snapshot answers with concise, reliable information. Editors take the content from over 100 authoritative encyclopedias, dictionaries, glossaries and atlases, carefully chosen for breadth and quality.
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Ask.com
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Formly Ask Jeeves, Ask.com is singularly focused on helping users find what they need through the complicated, exciting, ever-changing web. No matter what the search, Ask.com is committed to meeting the search challenge.
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Cranky
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The first age-relevant search engine designed for those over 50.
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DogPile
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Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, Teoma, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more.
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Excite
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Formerly a crawled-based search engine, Excite was acquired by InfoSpace in 2002 and uses the same underlying technology as the other InfoSpace meta search engines, but maintains its own portal features.
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Finding Information: Search Engines
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Don't know which search engine is the best one to research an answer to your question? To save yourself time, check out Phil Bradley's search engine chart, which matches specific information needs with his favorite tools for finding those kinds of information.
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Gigablast
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Launched in 2002, the Gigablast search engine provides a clean interface without advertising. It guesses related keywords and phrases that may help refine a user's search and provides continuous updating and refreshing of the index in real-time. It is the only search engine indexing meta tags beyond just the meta description and meta keywords.
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GoodSearch.com
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GoodSearch.com is a new search engine that donates half its revenue, about a penny per search, to the charities its users designate. You use it just as you would any search engine, and it's powered by Yahoo!, so you get reliable results. Be sure to enter Milwaukee Public Library Foundation as the charity you want to support.
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Google
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Google is one of the 5 most popular sites on the Internet and is used around the world by millions of people. Google offers a wide range of services for searching specific information. For more information visit Google Web Search Features and Google Services. Sponsored links and ads are listed separately from the search results and Google does not sell placement in the search results themselves, or allow people to pay for a higher ranking.
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INFOMINE
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INFOMINE is a unique Web resource featuring well organized access to important university level research and educational tools on the Internet. A virtual library, INFOMINE is notable for its collection of annotated and indexed links.
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Internet Scout Project
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Part of the University of Wisconsin's school of Letters & Sciences, the Internet Scout Project has focused on developing better tools and services for finding, filtering, and presenting online information and metadata. Highly known for its publication of the Scout Report, one of the Web's oldest and most respected current awareness services. It has been published every Friday since 1994 and is read by more than 250,000 readers every week.
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Kartoo
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Kartoo is a meta search engine which presents its results on a map. It offers an alternative way to search the Web -- visually instead of verbally. In order to view visual maps of a search, Flash is required, however the html version will display the same results in a list form.
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Librarians' Index to the Internet (lii.org)
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The mission of Librarians' Index to the Internet is to provide a well-organized point of access for reliable, trustworthy, librarian-selected Internet resources. Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 14,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries.
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Open Directory Project
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The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. The Open Directory was founded in the spirit of the Open Source movement, and is the only major directory that is 100% free. There is not, nor will there ever be, a cost to submit a site to the directory, and/or to use the directory's data. The Open Directory data is made available for free to anyone who agrees to comply with the free use license.
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Search Engine Showdown
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Search Engine Showdown provides comparisons and evaluations of search engines from the searcher's perspective. Find the latest news articles, reviews, tips for searching, and a search engine features chart.
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Search Engine Watch
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Launched in 1997, Search Engine Watch was one of the first sites to provide information how search engines work. Find Web searching tips and search engine reviews and ratings.
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Whois
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Search for the domain name of an organization on the Internet.
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Yahoo!
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Launched in 1994, Yahoo! is one of the oldest directory on the Web and has become the most popular and well known Internet portal. Yahoo! provides a subject directory of links as well as the ability to search its listings. However, in recent years, Yahoo! has shifted drawing its results from a human-powered directory to crawler based listings. Access Yahoo!'s new search engine directly.
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