Major Search Engines

Major Search Engines

Google

http://www.google.com
Voted four times Most Outstanding Search Engine by Search Engine Watch readers, Google has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web. The crawler-based service provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy. It's highly recommended as a first stop in your hunt for whatever you are looking for.

Yahoo

http://www.yahoo.com
Launched in 1994, Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory," a place where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to crawler-based listings for its main results. These came from Google until February 2004. Now, Yahoo uses its own search technology. Learn more in this recent review from our SearchDay newsletter, which also provides some updated submission details.

Ask

http://www.ask.com
Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the "natural language" search engine that let you search by asking questions and responded with what seemed to be the right answer to everything.

AOL Search

http://aolsearch.aol.com (internal)

http://search.aol.com/(external)
AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index. Indeed, the same search on Google and AOL Search will come up with very similar matches. So, why would you use AOL Search? Primarily because you are an AOL user. The "internal" version of AOL Search provides links to content only available within the AOL online service. In this way, you can search AOL and the entire web at the same time. The "external" version lacks these links. Why wouldn't you use AOL Search? If you like Google, many of Google's features such as "cached" pages are not offered by AOL Search.

Live Search

http://www.live.com/
Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search) is the name of Microsoft's web search engine, successor to MSN Search, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo. The search engine offers some innovative features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page (instead of needing to click through to subsequent search result pages) and the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result (i.e. just the title, a short summary, or a longer summary). It also allows the user to save searches and see them updated automatically on Live.com.

Other Search Engines

AOL
Anywhere
AltaVista
Ask Jeeves
BigBook
Cyber411
EiNet
Galaxy
Eureka
EuroPages
Excite
Global Online Directory
Go.com
Google
GoTo.com
HotBot
Looksmart
Lycos
Mamma
Mirago
NerdWorld
Northern Light
Open Directory Project
OpenText
Planet Search
Profusion
Savvy
Search
Search.COM
Scoot
SearchFound
Snap
StartingPoint
The European Directory
The Informant
The Nell Register
The Ultimate Homepage Index
Thunderstone
UK Directory
UK Index
USA Today
WebCrawler
Webtop
What-U-Seek
Yahoo
Yell
Yellow Web