Search Engines and Directories TheScannery - Search engine focuses solely on investment-related information from more than 12,000 companies around the world. Queryster - Get results from 10 different search engines. Shows the actual pages from the search engines themselves. CitySearch - Find local businesses in most cities. 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. MSN Search - 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. Feedster - Look and feel of Google. New upstart engine. 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. Teoma - Teoma is a crawler-based search engine. Inktomi - Among the major search engines, Inktomi is the second-oldest crawler. LookSmart - LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. Open Directory - The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. Overture - Formerly called GoTo until late 2001, Overture is an extremely popular paid placement search engine. AltaVista - AltaVista is the oldest crawler-based search engine on the web. Netscape - Owned by AOL Time Warner, Netscape Search uses Google for its main listings, just as does AOL's other major search site, AOL Search. WiseNut - WiseNut is a crawler-based search engine. Bytehound - Directory. Knowledge - Directory format. ComboSE - Combination meta search engine and directory.
Webguest - Keyboard free web search. Directory format. SServ.com - Directory format. New in 2003. WoList - New (2004?) directory format site. MyWay - Directory set-up which is powered by Google.
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines ComboSE - Combination meta search engine and directory. ZapMeta - New (2/04), speedy meta engine with some pretty cool visualization. Vivismo - Vivismo will not only pull back matching responses from major search engines but also automatically organize the pages into categories. EZ2WWW - This meta search engine provides results from AllTheWeb, AltaVista, Google, Open Directory, Teoma, WiseNut and Yahoo. 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. Infonetware - a meta search engine, and it does topical classification of results. 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. Profusion - Brings back listings from several major search engines as well as "Invisible Web" resources. Query Server - Search against major web-wide search engines, as well as major news, health, money and government search services. Turbo10 - Metasearch engine accesses both traditional web search engines and some invisible web databases, with a very speedy interface. Dogpile - Customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites, then displays results from each search engine individually. 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. Gimenei - Gimenei queries an undisclosed number of search engines and removes duplicates from results. 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. Moonmist - Moonmist allows you to do a general or country specific meta search. Results include links to site info and a link to the Wayback machine's archived copies of the underlying result page. Widow Meta Search - Easy to choose exactly which search engines you wish to query, and the same listings found at multiple search engines are combined together.
The Job Spider - Find job openings. CitySearch - Find local businesses in most cities. 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. CiteLine - Provides a focused medical search. It uses a pre-screened index of medical sites. Echidna Medical Search - Searches through Australian medical websites. Galenicom - Search engine in Spanish of medical resources on the net. Biocrawler - Directory and search engine for biological information.
Invisible Web Profusion - Catalogs searchable resources across the web. Lycos Invisible Web Catalog - This search engine gives you access to all sorts of online databases. Direct Search - A large collection of specialized search tools that often contain info that is hidden to search engines.
Science Search Engines Research Index - A computer science research search engine with a number of unique capabilities, including citation indexing, links to related and similar documents, bibliographic coupling and collaborative filtering. Chemie.De - Directory and search engine for information about chemistry. Click on the "search engine" link on the home page to search. Scirus - Combines a targeted crawler from FAST that focuses only on web sites with scientific content, with Elsevier's massive scientific information resources drawn from thousands of journals and books. Search4Science - A search engine put together by scientists for scientists. If you enter simple keyword searches you're often presented with related scientific terms to expand or limit your query. Biolinks - A search engine for scientists, with links to journals, organizations, companies and more. 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. MathRix - A directory of web sites in French and about mathematics. PSI - Polymer Search on the Internet - Search engine for the global polymer, plastic and rubber industries. Includes daily industry news. Math Works - A directory of technical computing oriented links. Top categories are high-level programming languages like MATLAB, LabVIEW, Mathematica, and others. On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences - Wondering if a sequence of numbers you have matches any particular formula or pattern? This is one of those great little sites you'll want on your bookmark list, for seeking such answers. O'Reilly Network Safari Bookshelf - Search across content from hundred of technical books from O'Reilly and other publishers. To view content from a particular book, you need to pay a monthly or yearly subscription. Pricing begins at US $10 per month, for access to up to five books. Keoz6.com - Vertical Science Portal. The-Science-Lab.com - A comprehensive directory of science related websites.