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Search Engines

A search engine is a Web site connected to a database that catalogs other Web sites. It will search the actual text of other Web sites for you. A computer search program, or spider, follows links on Web pages to regularly and automatically rebuild this database.

Sites in Search Engines

Wotbox
Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.

Scrub The Web
Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.

Infosniff
A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.

Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users.

Aesop Search
The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.

Ask Jeeves
Uses the Teoma database to offer search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, people or products.

DeepIndex
European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.

SearchHippo
Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.

WiseNut
Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.

Amfibi
General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.

Gigablast
A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.

Teoma
Ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.

The Evolution of Web Searching
David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.

Objects Search
An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.

Entireweb
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.

BrainBoost
Question answering search engine that accepts natural language queries.

Mozdex
Nutch based engine explains search result relevancy.

Topix.net: Search Engines
News about search engines, collected from various sources on the web.

Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads.

sub categories in Search Engines

Family Friendly

Providers

Robots

Google

Regional

Specialized

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Monday, 13 October 2008