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Web search engines and comments |
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A9 Amazon books, Live results |
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Abbreviations For abbreviations |
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Abcsearchengine Index based, fairly small |
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About Lots of articles on lots of things |
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Accoona Excellent for news, good for focussed searching |
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Acronymfinder Find acronyms |
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Aftervote Social search engine |
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Ajaxwhois Great for site statistics searches |
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Alexa Good for background information on a site |
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AllPlus Good meta engine, lots of options |
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Alltheweb Part of the Yahoo family |
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Altavista Oldie, but still a goodie, suprising enough |
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Answers Good for factual information |
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AOL Search Google in a different guise |
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Archive, Internet Good for older versions of a site |
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Ask One of the big four |
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Azoos Painfully bright yellow index engine |
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Beaucoup Index based, not impressed |
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Better Who Is Information about a website owner etc |
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Blinkx Multimedia search engine |
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Brainboost Part of the Answers family |
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Buzzle Index based, not impressed |
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ChaCha Search with a human guide |
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Clusty Good all rounder |
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Collarity Personalised search engine. Very good. |
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Complete Planet Excellent for hidden/invisible web |
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Convert To convert from one to another |
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Country Search Engines 4,000 country search engines |
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Definitions Good for various definitions |
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Digital-librarian Collection of links from a librarian |
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DMOZ (Open Directory Project) Good index/directory |
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Dogpile Multisearch GYMA |
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Draze Compare GYM on one screen |
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Ebingbong Social search, lets users rate results. |
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Eurekster Good for building your own engine |
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ExaleadSuperb functionality, good advanced options |
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ExciteDoes anyone still use that any more? |
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Factbites Factual information |
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FaganFinder Superb collection of engines |
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Fazzle Good all round meta search engine |
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Findsounds Audio/sound search engine |
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FinQoo Multi search engine, doesn't say what the sources are |
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Freesearch UK based engine, global scope |
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Galaxy Index based |
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Google Do I need to say anything about this one? |
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Google Blogsearch Best blog search engine going |
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Google Directory Same as DMOZ |
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Google Groups Good for obscure information |
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Google Images Yahoo image search is superior |
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Google Local Local to the UK that is. |
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Google News Adequate. Good for email alerts |
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Google Personalised Tailor results to your interests |
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Google Scholar Good(ish) for academic stuff |
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Google Trends Who is looking for what? |
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Healia Excellent medical search engine |
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Hotbot Blast from the past! |
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IAF People search Searches for people! US biased. |
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iBoogie Multi search engine, strong on clustering |
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Icerocket Good for blog searching |
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Illumirate Index based |
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InfoMine For scholarly internet resource collections |
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Infopeople People search |
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Infoservice Index based, bizarre collection of headings |
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Intute Superb directory, very authoritative |
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Irazoo Social search engine, vote for results |
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Ixquick Excellent meta search engine |
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Jayde Business to business |
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Jux2 Excellent meta search & compare results |
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Kartoo Visual search engine, good reputation |
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Kazazz Free text search engine, not particularly exciting |
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KidsclickChildren's search engine |
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Librarians Internet Index Superb resource |
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Linkopedia Index based, not exciting |
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Live Search One of the big 4 |
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Lycos Almost lost in the midst of time, but still trying |
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Mahalo Social search engine, some like it, I don't |
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MammaMulti meta search engine that's been around for years |
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Mastersite Calls itself #1 though I can't work out why |
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Metacrawler Meta search engine |
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Monstercrawler Meta search engine |
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Mooter Visual search engine |
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MsDewey Microsoft folly; annoying and pointless |
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Oaister Emphasis on hidden web academic material |
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Omnimedicalsearch Excellent medical search engine |
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Peerbot Very unusual engine, as it searches for favicons |
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Pepesearch Does not stand out |
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Pinakes Superb collection of Virtual Libraries |
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Questfinder Selective web directory |
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Quotations for Quotations |
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Quintura First rate, uses clouds of terms. Recommended |
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RedZee Visual search. Awful. Used to be excellent |
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References Good all round resource |
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Re-quest Index/Directory web search engine |
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Scandoo accurately indicates a level of trustworthiness |
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Scirus Scientific search of web and selected journals |
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Scrubtheweb Nothing to recommend it |
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Search-beat Uses Google's database |
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Searchbug Search for people and companies in the US |
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Search.com Metasearch engine |
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Searchhippo Metasearch engine, unimpressed |
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Searchy Personalised search |
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Searchmash Google test bed |
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Search Medica Excellent medical search engine |
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Searchthe.net Meta search engine |
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Searchtheweb Index/Directory |
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Selectsurf Selective web directory |
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Similicio.us Find similar sites |
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Silobreaker Superb news resource |
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Slider Full text search engine that searches DMOZ |
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Smartlinks Index/Directory |
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SMEALSearch Academic authoritative content |
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Sproose Social search engine |
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Sunsteam Index/Directory |
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Supercrawler Index/Directory |
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Synonyms Good reference resource |
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Technorati Excellent weblog search engine |
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Thenet1 Index/Directory |
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Thunderstone Index/Directory |
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Trooker Superb video search engine |
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Turbo 10 Great for hidden/invisible web |
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TurboScout Very good multi search engine |
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Ujiko Visual search engine |
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Zip codes Information about US zip code areas |
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Web Brain Visual search engine |
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Webcrawler Meta search engine for GYMA |
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Web-search Meta search engine, one at a time |
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Webworldindex Index/Directory |
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Whatuseek Web/Index based, not worth the trouble |
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Windseek Meta search engine |
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WWW Virtual Library Second only to Pinakes |
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Yahoo! One of the big 4 |
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Yahoo Buzz What's going on? |
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Yahoo Directory Yahoo as it used to be |
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Yahooligans For children |
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Yahoo Local Local information |
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Yahoo Mindset Emphasis research or shopping |
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YouTube Video engine. Use Trooker instead |
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Zapmeta Allows for various methods of re-ranking |
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Zensearch Uses the Google database |
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