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AOL
Search
AOL Search is the one place where you can simultaneously search
all of AOL and the rest of the Internet. Uses ODP directory data.
AltaVista
Altitude is one of the most comprehensive search engines, featuring
blazing speed, results that can be selectively refined, and a
search for documents in specific languages. Worldwide: Asia,
Australia,
Canada,
Latin
America, and Europe.
Ask
Jeeves
Ask Jeeves a question using natural language, and you'll likely
get an accurate answer from its database of more than 7 million
questions, with links to what you're seeking.
Direct
Hit
The Direct Hit Popularity Engine shows you highly relevant results
based on the search topics that other people have researched.
Excite
Excite goes beyond keyword search and tries to understand underlying
concepts. Results can be sorted by Web site; prompts with
keyword list to help refine searches. Worldwide: Australia,
France,
Germany,
Excite
Japan, Netherlands,
Sweden,
United
Kingdom.
FAST
FAST claims to have the largest index of any search engine, and
aims to eventually have every page on the Web in its database.
Go/Infoseek
Infoseek is perhaps the best at handling plain-language queries.
It clusters results from a single site, offering suggestions for
related topics. Worldwide: Brasil,
Danmark,
Deutschland,
en
español, France,
Italia,
Japan,
Nederland,
Sverige,
United
Kingdom.
Google!
Yet another search engine born at Stanford (so were Yahoo and
Excite), Google ranks results both on how many links point to
a page (importance) and search phrase matching.
GoTo
This "capitalist" search engine ranks results by how
much a company is willing to pay for listings - useful for making
judgements but potentially crowding out sites with small budgets.
HotBot
HotBot uses parallel processing technology to index Web documents.
Its flexible search interface can limit searches by date, domain,
or media.