| All the Web |
| Home page: |
http://alltheweb.com |
| Help |
http://alltheweb.com/help/index |
| Description: |
Types of searches: Keyword or phrase. Implied Boolean expressions, use parentheses for OR search,
field searching supported, no stop words. May restrict searches by language
with over 30 different languages available. Advanced search mode provides
a form to use to build search expressions. |
| Sources to search: Web,
News, pictures, videos, and FTP and MP3 files. |
| Output Features:
Title, hyperlink, URL, size, and text from the Web page.
Ranked by relevancy, ten results per page. Links to related topics and a
link to the results in pictures or videos are usually present.
|
| Altavista |
| Home page: |
http://www.altavista.com |
| Help: |
http://www.altavista.com/help/ |
| Description: |
Types of searches: Keyword or phrase. Implied
Boolean expressions in simple search, and full Boolean expressions in advanced
search. Proximity, truncation, wildcards, case sensitivity, and field searching
supported. |
| Sources to search: Web, News, and Shopping.
Specialized search areas titled Careers, Entertainment, Finance, Health,
News, and Travel. Search tools for finding audio, image, and multimedia
resources. |
| Output Features: Hyperlink, URL, and text from the Web page. Link to translation
service. Ranked only by relevancy in simple search. User can supply ranking
criteria in advanced search. |
| Google |
| Home page: |
http://www.google.com |
| Help: |
http://www.google.com/help/ |
| FAQ: |
http://www.google.com/support |
| Description: |
Uses a method for finding relevant results that differs from other search
tools.
" PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using
its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value.
In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote,
by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume
of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts
the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh
more heavily and help to make other pages "important."
Important, high-quality sites receive a higher PageRank, which Google
remembers each time it conducts a search. Of course, important pages
mean nothing to you if they don't match your query. So, Google combines
PageRank with sophisticated text-matching techniques to find pages that
are both important and relevant to your search. Google goes far beyond
the number of times a term appears on a page and examines all aspects
of the page's content (and the content of the pages linking to it) to
determine if it's a good match for your query."
(http://www.google.com/technology/index.html)
|
| Types of Searches: Keyword or phrase. Implied
Boolean supported, plus an OR search capability. Can restrict to domain
names, some field searching (date, language, and more.) |
| Sources to Search: Web (text, PDF, MS-Word
format), U.S. government information, Usenet archives (Google Groups), images,
maps, stocks, dictionary |
| Output Features: Full description: title
(hyperlink), excerpt, URL, size, and date indexed. Brief: title (hyperlink)
and one-line excerpt. |
| HotBot |
| Home page: |
http://hotbot.lycos.com |
| Help: |
http://help.lycos.com/LycosHelp/help/hotbot/htdocs/hotbot_1_help.htm |
| Description: |
Types of Searches: Keyword or phrase. Boolean
expressions allowed. |
| Sources to Search: Web, classifieds, domain
names, white pages, yellow pages, FTP search, and road maps. Directory is
the Open Directory Project (http://dmoz.org) |
| Output Features: Title (hyperlink), excerpt,
URL, size, and date indexed. |
| Lycos |
| Home page: |
http://www.lycos.com |
| Help: |
http://help.lycos.com/faq.php?categoryid=7 |
| Description: |
Types of Searches: Keyword. Implied Boolean
expressions allowed. Can match all words (AND) or any words (OR). Boolean
expressions allowed only with advanced search options. |
| Sources to Search: Web, images, multimedia,
personal home pages, stocks, MP3s, FTP, yellow pages, white pages, software,
recipes, and weather.. |
| Output Features: Title (hyperlink), excerpt,
and URL. |
| All-in-One List of Search Engines |
| Home page: |
http://www.pandia.com/powersearch/ |
| Description: |
Special Features: Search tools
arranged by category. |
| A Collection of
Special Search Engines |
| Home page: |
http://www.leidenuniv.nl/ub/biv/specials.htm |
| Description: |
Special Features: Search tools
arranged by category. |
| Dogpile |
| Home page: |
http://www.dogpile.com |
| Help: |
http://www.dogpile.com/t/help/topics |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
Over 15 search engines, directories, and other resources
searched. Results arranged by relevance according to each search
engine or resource contacted |
| Special
Features: Keywords connected by AND is the default. Searching
by phrase, Boolean expressions, and proximity operators. |
| Fossick -
WebSearch Alliance Directory |
| Home page: |
http://www.fossick.com |
| FAQ: |
http://www.fossick.com/About.htm |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
The home page has a search form to use for a parallel search of
several general purpose search tools. Results of parallel search
are listed as title (hyperlink), excerpt, and hyperlink to the
search tool that returned the result. |
| Special
Features: Specialized databases or search tools in the
directory are each represented by an icon. |
| Ixquick |
| Home page: |
http://ixquick.com |
| Help: |
http://ixquick.com/eng/power_search_techniques.html |
| FAQ: |
http://ixquick.com/eng/search_faq.html |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
Several search engines are contacted - twelve of the most popular
search engines for Web pages, and several sources for each of the
other categories of searches, such as news, MP3, and images.
Results are listed as title (hyperlink), excerpt, and a hyperlink
to the search engine(s) that returned the result. |
| Special
Features: Full featured searches in parallel to appropriate
search engines. Results listed by relevancy. |
| MetaCrawler |
| Home page: |
http://www.metacrawler.com |
| Help: |
http://www.metacrawler.com/info.metac/search/help/index.htm |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
Twelve popular search engines consulted, specialty searches also
provided for MP3, FTP, and other types of resources. Results
arranged by relevancy, location (domain name), or source. |
| Special
Features: Searching by phrase, as well as with AND (all the
terms) and OR (any of the terms). User may select Power Search.
Metaspy, http://www.metaspy.com, lets you see
what search expressions other people are |
| Search.com |
| Home page: |
http://www.search.com |
| Help: |
http://www.search.com/Help |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
Search form, description of search tool, tips for searching, and
hyperlink to resource. |
|
Special Features: Search services and
databases arranged by category and in alphabetical order.
Individual services selected with a search form.
|
| Vivismo |
| Home page: |
http://vivisimo.com |
| Help: |
http://vivisimo.com/help/Quick_Help.html |
| FAQ: |
http://vivisimo.com/faq/Overview.html |
| Description: |
Search & Output Features:
Takes search expressions and translates them into the formats
used by specific search engines. Besides search engines, news
sources, PubMed, Yahoo, and other sources are searched.
Description of search tool, tips for searching, and hyperlink to
resource. |
| Special
Features: Results are organized into folders to help you
focus on aspects of the topic or types of resources. |
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