Search Engines

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Meta Search Engines

Last changed 4th April 2025

	SearXNG	Does not store information about its users
	DuckDuckGo	An independent browser that actively protects personal information
	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
	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
	Excite	Uses editors to review sites
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")    also AND OR NOT
	kartoo	A Visual Meta Search Engine
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")
	Mamma	Owned by Trillion a company based in Melbourne, Australia.

	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
	MSN	U.S. Based
		Search by Region and File type
		Required (+) Prohibited (-) Exact Match ("")
	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 (*)
	Search AOL	Powered by Google
	Yippy	A search engine and community marketplace