SEARCH ENGINES

TOP 10 Search Engines

Site

Unique Visitors (000s)

Digital Reach %

1 YAHOO.COM*

47,768

61.3

LYCOS.COM*

27,181

34.9

GO.COM

20,489

26.3

4 EXCITE*

18,217

23.4

5 ALTAVISTA SEARCH SERVICES*

12,912

16.6

6 SNAP.COM SEARCH & SERVICES*

10,894

14.0

7 LOOKSMART.COM

9,481

12.2

8 ABOUT.COM

9,306

11.9

9 ASKJEEVES.COM

9,063

11.6

10 IWON.COM

7,608
9.8

 

SEARCH ENGINE LIST

Airport Search EngineAirport- codes and a list of links to
airport pages on the web.

alltheweb

AltaVista - web and newsgroup search engine.

AltaVista Canada

AOL Search

Aqueous - dedicated to sites that have water related content.

Arkansas Direct - search engine serving the state.

Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question.

AvatarSearch - covers sites for magick, paganism, and more.

Aviation Search Engine from Totavia

Bigstuff

BRS Search Page - search for information, jobs, people and more.

Business Seek

canada.com

Cinemachine - brought to you by Addicted to Noise.

Company Site Locator - The tool for searching for companies'
websites.

Crafts Search - search engine dedicated to crafts.

Direct Hit Direct Hit measures what people click on in the search results presented at its own site and at its partner sites, such as HotBot. Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher in Direct Hit's rankings.

DIY Search - search engine dedicated to the DIY music,
e-zine and arts community.

dMarie Time Capsule
The data presented here is a mixture of information 
about specific days, months, and years. So, for example, 
while the songs listed were all songs popular for the given 
year, the headlines listed occurred within a month or two 
of the given date. Birthdays listed, of course, match the 
date exactly.

EuroFerret - index of European web sites provided by
Muscat Ltd.

Euroseek

excite Excite offers a medium-sized crawler-based web page index, as well as access to human-powered directory results from LookSmart.

FAST Search
FAST Search consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web

Fido the Shopping Doggie

Fish4It - from Urban Desires.

Funny Site - search engine for humor sites.

GeoIndex - search tool for geo-environmental professionals.

Global Online Directory - search engine with unique search
facilities and free classified ads.

Globe Page - Asia search service in English, Chinese GB,
and Big 5 encoding.

Go Network

Google
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites.

HotBot HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features.

HumanSearch - search the web using real humans.

Infohiway

InfoSeek Infoseek Guide, integrates the capabilities of a search
engine and a directory.

InfoTiger Search Engine - Intelligent search.

InfoZona - state-specific searchable database of links.

Inktomi

IWon
Backed by US television network CBS, iWon gives away daily, weekly and monthly prizes in a marketing model unique among the major services.

Jassan Global Network - searchable directory of sites including
jobs stockmarket, and more.

keyword.com

LinkMaster

Links! - search without prejudice.

LookSmart LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites.

Lycos

magellan.com

MathSearch

Money$earch

Montana Pathfinder - a search engine dedicated to Montana.

MOSHIx2 - Japanese and English search engine.

MSN Internet Search

MSN Search

MusicSearch - music search engine.

NationalDirectory

NBCi
NBCi is a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi.

Netscape Search

Netword

News Hunt - links to free newspaper archives.

Next Crawler - search engine that references Greek sites.

Nordic Web Index

Northern Light
Northern Light is another favorite search engine among researchers.

OneKey

Open Directory
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web

pcbeacon

PlanetSearch

Pollinia: Network Orchid Stuff

Pregnancy and Parenting Search Engine

QuestFinder - offers a list of categories.

Radar - international search engine. In English and Spanish.

RealNames
The RealNames system is meant to be an easier-to-use alternative to the current web site addressing system. Those with RealNames-enabled browsers can enter a word like "Nike" to reach the Nike web site

Scrub The Web

Search King

Search NZ

Search.bg - search engine dedicated to Bulgarian companies.

Search.NL - Search Dutch cyberspace.

Searchopolis

Sesna - Ukrainian Search - search engine for Ukrainian sites.

Simmany - Korean search engine.

Snoopie

splat

Study Web over 17,000 educational and reference Web sites.

Swiss Search - full text search engine for Switzerland

TechnoFind - search facility for Singaporean Web sites.

TheLinks

Thunderstone - an index of sites, not pages.

Travel-Finder Spider

Ugabula - buscador: search Spanish and Latin sites.

United States of America Web Resource

Webindex - internet search engine for Greece.

webcrawler

Websurfer

WestMichigan.com - local search engine.

What-U-Seek

whoizzy

World Access Internet Navigator

WWWomen Search Directory

Yahoo
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's success is human beings.

Zebra - search South Africa.

NEWS SEARCH ENGINES

InfoJump - article search engine that indexes electronic periodicals and online versions of print publications.

1stHeadlines

FindArticles.com - free search service for leading business, entertainment, and internet publications available online..

NewsBot - Search and clip articles from many sources, specifying subject and time frame.

News Index - searchable index of the latest news articles published on the Web.

NewsBlip - search engine for recent or breaking news.

NewsBot - Search and clip articles from many sources, specifying subject and time frame.

NewsTrawler

TotalNews - links to major news sites all over the web.

United States Newspaper List

 

 

KIDS SEARCH ENGINES

FOUR MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES

AOL NetFind Kids Only
From AOL, it contains links to sites that are safe for kids.

Ask Jeeves For Kids
Ask Jeeves is a unique service where you enter a question, and Ask Jeeves tries to point you to the right web page that provides an answer.

KidsClick
Backed by librarians, KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.

Yahooligans
Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12. Sites are hand-picked to be appropriate for children

Kids Search Engines 
Other Services

Awsome Library
Over 14,000 sites have been classified into a directory, specifically organized for teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching.

CyberSleuth Kids
Educational directory and homework helper for the K-12 student. Search from thousands of subject specific internet sites.

DizzyDuckling
Click on animated characters to have your child lead into topics populated with kid-friendly sites. There is also the ability to search a directory of sites. No adult content sites are listed, but the listings may not be entirely designed for children, as are the animated topic helpers.

Education World
Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.

EdView Smart Zone
A collection of over 7 million teacher-reviewed web pages that are safe for kids. Sites are categorized by subject and grade level.

Family Friendly Search
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines.

Family Web Files
A directory of kid-safe web sites, presented in both English and Spanish.

Infoplease Kids' Almanac
Reference provider Information Please produces this site which provides facts and information oriented around the needs of children.

KidsClick Worlds of Web Searching
Nicely done guide designed to teach children 8 through 12 the basics of searching the web.

KidsNook.com
Directory of web sites, designed for kids ages 7 to 14. All sites are supposed to be appropriate for children. Adult-oriented banner ads do not appear.

Kids Search Tools
Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.

Linkopedia Kidzone
Rated and reviewed sites for children aged 2 to 10.

OneKey

Saluki Search
Directory of kid-safe web sites. Search or browse categories.

SearchEdu.com
Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.

StudyWEB
Looking for an academic or research site? Editors at StudyWEB have categorized and reviewed over 100,000 sites. There are ratings by grade level and notes if visual aids are available, helpful for those making reports.

Super Snooper
Designed to filter out sites that are pornographic, sexual or violent in nature by screening them out at the time they are spidered. Only the home pages of sites are indexed, so results are not as comprehensive as they would be if entire sites were crawled.

Teach-nology.com
Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.

TekMom's Search Tools for Students
All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.

Zeek Search
All-in-one search page for a variety of kid-oriented sites. Includes the ability to do meta search at AltaVista (filtered) and Ask Jeeves For Kids.

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