|
Popularity
|
Search Engine
|
# of Searches/day
|
% of Searches
|
|
1
|
112,000,000
|
35.1%
|
|
|
2
|
Yahoo |
105,000,000
|
32.8%
|
|
3
|
MSN |
39,000,000
|
12.1%
|
|
4
|
AOL |
29,000,000
|
9.0%
|
|
5
|
AltaVista |
6,000,000
|
1.7%
|
|
6
|
Lycos |
5,000,000
|
1.6%
|
|
7
|
Netscape |
4,000,000
|
1.1%
|
|
8
|
Looksmart |
2,000,000
|
0.6%
|
|
9
|
Alltheweb |
1,000,000
|
0.2%
|
|
10
|
HotBot |
500,000
|
0.1%
|
SEARCH ENGINE LIST
About.com
Ahoy! - The Homepage Finder.
Airport Search EngineAirport- codes and a list of links to airport pages on the web.
alltheweb-large database that indexes web sites, news, pictures, videos and MP3s.
AltaVista - web and newsgroup search engine.
AltaVista Canada
Aqueous - dedicated to sites that have water related content.
Arkansas Direct - search engine serving the state.
Ask
Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct
you to the exact page that answers your question.
AvatarSearch - covers sites for magic, paganism, and more.
Aviation Search Engine from Totavia
Crafts Search - search engine dedicated to crafts.
Direct
Hit-Direct
Hit measures what people click on in the search results presented at
its own site and at its partner sites, such as HotBot. Sites that get
clicked on more than others rise higher in
Direct Hit's rankings.
DIY Search - search engine
dedicated to the DIY music, e-zine and arts community.
dMarie
Time Capsule
The data presented here is a mixture of information
about specific days, months, and years. So, for example, while the songs listed were all songs popular for the given year, the headlines listed occurred within a month or two of the given date. Birthdays listed, of course, match the date exactly.
EuroFerret - index of European
web sites provided by
Muscat Ltd.
excite Excite offers a medium-sized crawler-based web page index, as well as access to human-powered directory results from LookSmart.
FAST
Search
FAST Search consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web
Fish4It - from Urban Desires.
GeoIndex - search tool for geo-environmental professionals.
Gigablast-allows users to search the sites in the index by date
Global Online Directory - search engine with unique search facilities and free classified ads.
Globe Page - Asia search service in English, Chinese GB, and Big 5 encoding.
Google
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a
primary way to rank web sites.
HotBot HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features.
HumanSearch - search the web using real humans.
InfoSeek Infoseek Guide,
integrates the capabilities of a search
engine and a directory.
InfoTiger Search Engine - Intelligent search.
InfoZona - state-specific searchable database of links.
IWon
Backed by US television network CBS, iWon gives away daily, weekly
and monthly prizes in a marketing model unique among the major
services.
Jassan Global Network - searchable
directory of sites including
jobs stockmarket, and more.
LookSmart LookSmart is a human-compile
Montana Pathfinder - a search engine dedicated to Montana.
MOSHIx2 - Japanese and English search engine.
MusicSearch - music search engine.
NBCi
NBCi is a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by
search results from Inktomi.
News Hunt - links to free newspaper archives.
Next Crawler - search engine that references Greek sites.
Northern
Light
Northern Light is another favorite search engine among researchers.
Open
Directory
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web
Pollinia: Network Orchid Stuff
Pregnancy and Parenting Search Engine
QuestFinder - offers a list of categories.
Radar - international search engine. In English and Spanish.
RealNames
The RealNames system is meant to be an easier-to-use alternative
to
the current web site addressing system. Those with RealNames-
enabled
browsers can enter a word like "Nike" to reach the Nike web
site
Search.bg - search engine dedicated to Bulgarian companies.
Search.NL - Search Dutch cyberspace.
Sesna - Ukrainian Search - search engine for Ukrainian sites.
Simmany - Korean search engine.
Study Web over 17,000 educational and reference Web sites.
Swiss Search - full text search engine for Switzerland
TechnoFind - search facility for Singaporean Web sites.
Teoma- provides results in a clustered format, the results of searches at Teoma are listed in subject groups with links to expert commentary.
Thunderstone - an index of sites, not pages.
Ugabula - buscador: search Spanish and Latin sites.
United States of America Web Resource
Webindex - internet search engine for Greece.
WestMichigan.com - local search engine.
Wisenut- ability to preview sites in a mini-window on the search results page makes this up and coming engine a user-friendly search option.
World Access Internet Navigator
Yahoo
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved
reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to
Yahoo's success is human beings.
Zebra - search South Africa.
NEWS and HEADLINE SEARCH ENGINES
CBC News- Canadian and international news headlines and articles
InfoJump - article search engine that indexes electronic periodicals and online versions of print publications.
FindArticles.com - free search service for leading business, entertainment, and internet publications available online..
Google News- searchable database of 4,000 news sources, this portal updates its news listings throughout the day to provide fresh stories on a variety of topics
NewsBot - Search and clip articles from many sources, specifying subject and time frame.
News Index - searchable index of the latest news articles published on the Web.NewsBlip - search engine for recent or breaking news.
NewsBot - Search and clip articles from many sources, specifying subject and time frame.
Reuters- popular news feed service. Features a searchable archive of all Reuters stories, photographs, financial news and updates, exchange rates and commodities.
TotalNews - links to major news sites all over the web.
World News Network- sorts news from hundreds of online news sources in twenty languages. Stories are organized into topical and geographical categories.
Yahoo! News- Features news feeds from AP, Reuters, The New York Times and USA Today.