General Search Engines

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



• ***** Google - Search engine. Can search the deep Web, images, video, Google News, maps, Google Book Search, Google Groups, Google Scholar. Ranks results by popularity or links from other sites. Doesn't support Boolean syntax. Has advanced features, preferences, language tools. Includes the Google Directory, Google Israel, Google U.S. Government Search, Google's University Search, etc..



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



• Alexa - Search engine & directory. Search powered by ***** Google. Includes sponsored (purchased) links. Browsable directory of human-selected links powered by the Open Directory Project (ODP) 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.



• Feedster.com - Search engine. Can search blogs, news, podcasts, etc.. Has advanced features.



• FileIndex.com - Search engine. Can search 2,500 FTPs & 160 million FTP files.



• 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 - A ***** Google search engine & directory. Was Deja.com. 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 - A ***** Google search engine. Can search, browse 4,500 continuously updated news sources. Includes the Google News Archive.



• Google Scholar - A ***** Google search engine. 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..



• RocketNews - Search engine. Crawls 13,000 news & business information sources. Can search, browse news & blogs in 9 categories (world, business & finance, technology, entertainment, health, science, the arts & leisure, etc.).



• Singingfish - Search engine. Can search for audio & video on the Web. Has a family filter.



• 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).