Popular Search Engines

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Meta Search Engines

Last changed 7th October 2007

	Google	Uses page ranking, where a high rank is obtainded by being referenced from many other pages
		Searches are NOT case sensitive
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also OR
	Clusty	Uses velocity search engine, then groups similar results together into clusters.
		Restrict by "Language" and "file type"
	Cha Cha	Lets you do a GUIDED search where a real person asks you questions to identify the results you need.
		Search Web, News, Images, Video, Audio
	Dog Pile	Queries about 12 other search engines
		Search using "Any", "All", or "Exact phrase"
	Ask Jeeves	Uses the "Teoma" search engine
		Uses "Natural Language Technology" to guess the context and so determin relevancy
	Beaucoup
	Excite	Uses editors to review sites
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND OR NOT
	ix Quick	Queries about 10 other search engines
		Searches are case sensitive, but allows "*" as a wildcard
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND, OR, NOT, NEAR
	kartoo	A Visual Meta Search Engine
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")
	KillerInfo	Meta Search with over 260 data sources
		Provideds a results guide
	Mamma
	Yureka	Uses the MetaCrawler search engine
		Search by <Word or Phrase> , <Match or Begin with> and <Include or Exclude>
	C/Net	Queries about 4 other search engines
		Search using "web pages", "prices", "headlines" or "Advice and Answers"

	About	Returns summary
		Searches Contents
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND OR NOT
	After Vote	Search Web, Images, Video
	All the Web	Search for News, Video, Images and Sound
	Alta Vista	Offers Language Translation ( 36 languages )
		Searches Contents by default but also    Domain:, Host:, link:, Title: and URL: Also select Web, Images, MP3/Audio, Video, Directory and News
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND, OR, NOT, NEAR and by Language
	Altavista UK	As Above
	Ditto	A visual search engine
		Search by <Web> , <Image> or <Shopping>
	Dmoz	The Open Directory Project
	Euro Pages	A European Business Directory
	Find Info	U.S. Based
	IPL	Internet Public Library - Run by the University of Michigan
	Lycos	Returns summary
		Searches Contents ( or Title or URL from a seletion page )
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND, OR, NOT, ADJ, NEAR, FAR, & LANGUAGE
	Mirago	Geographically Relevant Search
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND, OR, NOT, ADJ, NEAR, FAR, & LANGUAGE
	MSN	U.S. Based
		Search by Region and File type
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")
	Northern Light	Searches Text (default), Title (title:) or URL (url:)
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")
		AND OR NOT ADJ, and Wild cards single letter(%) many letters(*)
	Overture	A Subsiduary of Yahoo
	Search UK	Returns abstract
		Searches by Commercial | Academic | Government | Non-profit | All
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND OR NOT
	UK Plus	Uses the Infoseek search engine
	Technorati	Searches web blogs
	WebCrawler	Returns summary
		Searches about 12 other search engines
		Search using "Any", "All", or "Exact phrase"
	Yahoo UK	Returns description
		Searches Contents (default), Title (t:), or URL (u:)
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("") Wildcard (*)
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