List of search engines and directories

Google is currently the top search engine, accounting for over half of all internet searches. For the rest, about a quarter of all searchers use Yahoo, about 10% use MSN and 6% use AOL search. That means about 1 out of every 10 is done using a different search engine. If you are like most people, you probably have a favorite, and may only have heard of 5 or 10 others, but there are hundreds of search engines and directories on-line. Many specialize in a particular topic, but others (like google and yahoo) are general and cover most everything. Here is a list of some of those search engines, including those you may never have heard of.

RECOMMENDED:

Find what you are looking for with these popular search engines.

Google
http://www.google.com
Google earth
http://earth.google.com/

(You would be suprised at how often this is mispelled!
Common mistakes include goggle, gogle, googol and goole.)

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com

Ask.com
http://www.ask.com
(Formerly Ask Jeeves, www.askjeeves.com)

MORE GOOD CHOICES:

AllTheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com

AOL Search
http://aolsearch.aol.com (internal)
http://search.aol.com/(external)

Exalead
http://www.exalead.com/

FactBites
http://www.factbites.com/

Gigablast
http://www.gigablast.com

HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com

Snap
http://www.snap.com/

Teoma
http://www.teoma.com

OTHER SEARCH ENGINES:

About.com
http://www.about.com/

Accoona
http://www.accoona.com/

Aeiwi
http://www.aeiwi.com/

Aesop.com
http://www.aesop.com/

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com

Dogpile.com
http://www.dogpile.com

Excite
http://www.excite.com

FyberSearch
http://www.fybersearch.com/

IllumiRate
http://www.illumirate.com/

iWon
http://www.iwon.com

ixquick
http://www.ixquick.com/

Links2Go
http://www.links2go.com/

LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com

Metacrawler
http://www.metacrawler.com/

MSN Search
http://search.msn.com

MyWay
http://www.myway.com/

MySearch
http://www.mysearch.com/

Netscape Search
http://search.netscape.com

NorthernLight
http://www.northernlight.com/

Open Directory
http://dmoz.org/

PepeSearch
http://www.pepesearch.com/

Qango.com
http://www.qango.com/

SearchKing
http://www.searchking.com

WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/

WebWombat
http://www.webwombat.com.au/

WiseNut
http://www.wisenut.com/

Wondir
http://www.wondir.com

 


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