Search Engines and Directories TheScannery - Search engine focuses solely on investment-related information from more than 12,000 companies around the world. Google - Google has a well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the web. All the Web - An excellent crawler-based search engine, All The Web provides both comprehensive coverage of the web and outstanding relevancy. Yahoo! - Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory," where human editors organize web sites into categories. However, in October 2002, Yahoo made a giant shift to using Google's crawler-based listings for its main results. Bing -
Has its own team of editors that monitors the most popular
searches being performed and then hand-picks sites that
are believed to be
the most relevant. AOL Search - AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index. Ask Jeeves - Ask Jeeves depends on crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. HotBot - HotBot provides easy access to the web's four major crawler-based search engines: AllTheWeb.com/FAST, Google, Inktomi and Teoma. Lycos - Uses crawler-based results provided by AllTheWeb. LookSmart - LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. Open Directory - The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. AltaVista - AltaVista is the oldest crawler-based search engine on the web.
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines Vivismo - Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. Kartoo - If you like the idea of seeing your web results visually, this meta search site shows the results with sites being interconnected by keywords. SurfWax - Searches against major engines to chose from a list of hundreds. Fazzel - Offers a highly flexible and customizable interface to a wide variety of information sources, ranging from general web results to specialized search resources in a number of subject specific categories. InfoGrid - Provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Ithaki - Probably the most "global" of all meta search engines, available in 14 languages and offering more than 35 different categories for limiting your search. Ixquick - Meta search engine that ranks results based on the number of "top 10" rankings a site receives from the various search engines. Turbo10 - Metasearch engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. Excite - A crawler-based search engine. MetaCrawler - One of the oldest meta search services. Webcrawler - Meta search engines, but offers a fast and clean, ad-free interface. Mamma - Searches against a variety of major crawlers, directories and specialty search sites. Search.com - Offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options. IcySpicy - IcySpicy is both a meta search engine offering results from Google, Overture, MSN, WiseNut, FindWhat, etc., and a collection of useful directory links and search forms for package tracking, movie locations, and so on. metaEureka! - Search against several major search engines and paid listings services.
The Job Spider - Find job openings. Indeed - Find Job Openings. Searches all major job and
company board. Find Sounds - Find free sound effects and musical instrument samples.
Medical MedHunt - Uses both humans and web crawling to build its index of medical information. Galenicom - Search engine in Spanish of medical resources on the net.
Science Search Engines SciSeek - A focused web directory created by human editors. It's a useful tool for browsing for information in a specific scientific area. iCivilEngineer - Catalogs Internet resources of civil engineering technology; covering all disciplines: architectural, construction, environmental, geotechnical hydraulic, structural, surveying and transportation. Math Works - A directory of technical computing oriented links. Top categories are high-level programming languages like MATLAB, LabVIEW, Mathematica, and others. The-Science-Lab.com - A comprehensive directory of science related websites.