General Search Engines

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• ***** Ask.com - Search engine. Can search the Web, images, news. Has advanced features, preferences. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Clusters results.



• ***** Google - Search engine. Ranks results by popularity or links from other sites. Doesn't support Boolean syntax. Has advanced features, preferences, language tools.



• ***** Yahoo Search - Search engine. Can search the Web, images, video, news, etc. Has advanced features (safesearch feature, etc.). Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Generates related searches.



• Alexa - Search engine & directory. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Browsable directory of human-selected links has 16 categories (the arts, business, computers, health, home, news, recreation, reference, regional, science, society, world, etc.). Has a Top 500 Sites, etc.



• alltheweb - Search engine. Can search the Web, news, pictures, videos, audio. Has advanced feaures, customization. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Clusters results.



• AltaVista - Search engine. Can search the Web, images, MP3/audio, video, news. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Has advanced features, settings, limits (worldwide or U.S. languages), tools (translator, yellow pages, people finder, etc.).



• Blogdigger - Search engine. Can search blogs, links, media, groups, etc.



• Bloglines - Search engine. Can search, publish, share, subscribe to blogs, email groups, Web sites.



• BlogPulse - Search engine. Can search blogs, analysis (top links, key people), trends. Has advanced features.



• Bloogz - Search engine. Can search blogs, URLs. Has a blog list by popularity.



• Ditto - Search engine. Can search images, the Web.



• exalead - Search engine. Can search the Web. Has advanced features, preferences. Clusters results.



• FindSounds - Search engine. Can search for sound effects & sample sounds (aiff, au, wave).



• Ftpsearchengines.com - Directory. Can browse FPT search engines in 5 categories (Web searches, open source searches, etc.).



• Google Groups - Can post, read Usenet forums; search, browse a 20 year archive of over 700 million messages in 10 categories (art & entertainment, business & finance, computers, health, news, regions & places, science & technology, society & humanities, etc.).



• Google News - Can search, browse 4,500 continuously updated news sources.



• Google Scholar - Can search scholarly literature (peer-reviewed articles, theses, books, preprints, abstracts, technical reports, etc.) in all broad areas of research from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities, etc. Includes citations of older works & seminal papers not available online.



• IceRocket - Search engine. Can search the Web, blogs, news, phone pics, images, multimedia, etc. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Has advanced features, preferences (adult filter, etc.), search history.



• Lycos - Search engine. Can search the Web, news, pictures. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Has advanced features, white & yellow pages, etc.



• Mooter - Search engine. Can search the Web. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Clusters results.



• NewsNow - Search engine. Can browse stories gathered by searching over 26,600 news sources every 5 minutes.



• NewsTrove - Search engine. Crawls approximately 200,000 Websites 24 hours per day looking for news. Include traditional news sources (print media & TV news organizations); corporate, government, military, university, scientific, technology, medical, non-profit, entertainment, political, opinion Websites; weblogs. Can link to top publications & columnists.



• Oth Net - Search engine. Can search FTPs.



• Pandia Newsfinder - Search engine. Can search daily news, get headlines, summaries, links to articles.



• Picsearch - Search engine. Can search pictures. Has advanced features, preferences.



• popdex - Search engine. Crawls over 14,000 blogs daily to determine the most popular links. Can search all blogs, view the top 15, etc.



• Technorati - Search engine. Crawls over 11 million blogs. Can search all blogs, view the top 100, etc.



• Topix.net - Search engine. Crawls 10,000 sources, 24 hours a day looking for news. Can search, browse news on health, business, U.S., world, movies, music, sci/tech, etc.



• WN Networks - Search engine. Crawls 3,000 sites in 24 languages. Can search, browse world news, news on business & industry, etc.



• Yakeo - Directory. Can browse over 2,000 search engines & directories in 8 categories (countries, science, religion, music, software, hardware, business, sports).