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Search Engines & Directories

SPECIFIC SEARCH ENGINES

• 100.com - Web directory with 60 categories each listing 100 of the top sites hand-picked by their editors to provide the best selection on the Web!
• 4Anything Network - Directory of reviewed quality sites.
• A9 - From Amazon.com. Search results enhanced by Google. Results also provided by A9.com, Alexa, and Amazon.com.
• About.com - Explore the Web with expert guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer. Hundreds of different categories.
• Aeiwi - A search engine / Web directory hybrid. As a Web directory, but still powerful as a search engine.
• Ah-Ha.com
• Allestra Search Engine
• Alexa Web Search - a new kind of search engine. With traffic rankings, user reviews and other information about sites, Alexa is a Web site discovery tool.
• All The Web
• Ask Jeeves - Just type a question and click "Ask!" Ask Jeeves then tries to find relevant sites to your "natural-language" query.
• All-in-One Search Page - Search 120 of the most popular Internet search engines.
• AltaVista - Internet search engine.
• AOL Search (maintained by Open Directory Project)
• Beaucoup - Meta search engine.
• Best of the Web
• Britannica.com - Search "the world's best Web sites, plus related books, selections from leading magazines, and the complete Encyclopaedia Britannica." Also includes a nice set of linke to other Reference Sites.
• CEO Express - Not a search engine, but an excellent instant gateway to the most popular Internet sites that you might want or need every day.
• Cipinet
• Claymont Search Engine
• Complete Planet - Discover over 70,000+ searchable databases and specialty search engines.
• Direct Hit - "One Search Engine. Millions of Minds."
• Direct Search - A growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, or Hotbot. Although these "general" tools are essential for the retrieval of Internet based data, searchers often fail to realize that a massive amount of information is not easily or entirely searchable/accessible via these search tools.
• Ditto.com - Visual search engine — "Provides a unique way to visually search for pictures, information and products. Search for pictures, images, photos, information, products, clipart, fine art, graphics, multimedia, animations, and more."
• Dogpile - A multi-engine semi-parallel search interface automatically searching 20+ search engines 3 at a time.
• Easaseek
• eBLAST: Encyclopædia Britannica's Internet Guide. Features authoritative site reviews by Britannica editors and utilizes advanced search and retrieval technology to deliver accurate search results.
• Engine54 - Search Engine
• EntireWeb
• Essential Links - Useful Web directory and multiple search engine.
• Euroseek
• ExactSeek
• Excite
• Everything Michigan - The best links to Michigan dedicated Web sites, including Michigan Cities, Michigan sports teams, Michigan outdoors, Michigan government, and more.
• EZ2find.com - metasearch engine.
• FAST Search - "All the Web, All the Time"
• Fetcher (formerly Inference Find) - Intelligent, Fast, Parallel Engine Web Search
• Find What
• Gigablast
• GO - "Search, Find, Fun"
• Go2Net - meta search engine
• GoGuides
• Google
  • Search Engine - The search engine to beat, right now.
  • Google Browser Buttons
  • Image search
  • Mac-specific search page - Searches only for Apple and Macintosh-related sites.
  • Web Directory
• HotBot - Internet directory and search engine.
• HotRate.com
• HotSheet - Web quick reference. A single page Web directory, with over 500 selected sites. Search feature, too.
• InfoSpace - "Real world information. You'll find yellow pages, white pages, classifieds, shopping sites, finance information, government data, chat rooms, and much more."
• Infotiger
• Inktomi
• Internet Sleuth - Chosse from over 2000 searchable databases.
• Invisible Web - A directory of some of the best resources the available, inlcuding those that are informative, of high quality, and contain worthy information from reliable information providers that are not visible to general-purpose search engines.
• Jayde - search engine for eBusiness.
• Juvio - "A safe and friendly way to search the Internet."
• LookSeek - Search engine and directory. Seems to prefer .org (non-profit organizations an .edu (educational institutions. Worth a look.
• LookSmart - Internet directory and search engine. See also: LookSmart Live! Their editors help you find what you're looking for on the Web. Follow three easy steps and an editor will email you a response within 24 hours.
• Lycos
• Mamma - "The Mother of all Search Engines"
• MetaCrawler
• Metasearch
• Mining Co. (Now About.com) - Explore the Web with expert guidance from real people searching for the best the Internet has to offer. Hundreds of different categories.
• Moodule
• Mooter
• MSN Search
• MSNBC
• MyMole.com - Another good parallel (meta) search engine. Also provides a meta-search on people's names and addresses.
• NBCi
• National Directory
• Nerd World Media - Internet Subject Index and Search Engine.
• Netscape's Netcenter
• Northern Light
• One Seek
• Open Directory Project (used by AOL Search Engine) - Their goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the Web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors.
• OpenHere
• Overture
• Pandia
• ProFusion - An excellent parallel search engine.
• Qango - Search Engine and Web Directory
• QuestFinder
• Rex Directory
• Scrub The Web - A search engine which "consistently provides quality results for Web searches covering the entire Internet."
• Search.Com
• Search It
• SearchBug - A collection of searches sites on the Web.
• SearchHippo.com
• SearchKing
• SearchTheWeb
• SeekOn.com
• SherlockHound Metasearch Engine
• Solstar, Shopping and Services Directory
• StartSpot Network - "Simplify your search for the best of the Web." Links to many easy-to-use resources sites.
• StudyWeb - Collection of over 162,000 categorized, reviewed, research-quality URLs.
• SurfGopher
• SurfSafely - Family-friendly serach engine.
• Surfwax.com - Meta search engine.
• Teoma Search
• Thunderstone Web Site Catalog
• TotalSeek
• TrueSearch
• Try America
• Turbo10 - Search the "invisible Web" or the "Deep Net™."
• Vivisimo - Its document clustering and meta-search software automatically categorizes search results on-the-fly into hierarchical clusters. It integrates and automatically categorizes search results from one or many search engines or other information sources.
• Walhello
• WebCrawler
• What-U-Seek
• WindSeek - Meta-search engine
• WiseNut - search engine
• WWW Riot
• Yahoo - Popular Internet directory and search engine. Click here to search only their directory.

LISTS of SEARCH ENGINES

• 100.com
  • 100 Search Engines - 100 of the top seach engine sites hand-picked by their editors.

• Beaucoup
  • Main page - list of 600 search engines! General search engines, and MANY subject-specific search engines
  • MANY general search engines and multiple (meta) search engines.

• Internet Technology and Business Center
  • Web Search Links & Unique Free Resources - Search engines, directories, meta search engines, and a lot more.

• Search Engine Guide
  • Search Engine Directory

• Search Engine Watch
  • Specialty Search Engines

• Yahoo
  • All-in-One Search Pages
  • Indices to Web Documents
  • Regional Search Engines
  • Search Engines!
  • Web Directories!

• ZDNet
  • Subject Directory of Search Engines

INSTRUCTIONS on SEARCHING

• List of sites offering instructions on "How to Search the Web."

REGISTERING YOUR WEB SITE:

Register your Web site - with many popular search engines and directories. Also, links to popular Web site promotion services.

SEE ALSO:

• Online Internet Directories - For Area Codes, Email Addresses, Telephone Numbers, Addresses (at our Reference Material page).

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