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About:
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-Human-edited
network of targeted sites.
-A vertical Portal divided into 36 channels.
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Ah-Ha:
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Competes
in the marketplace with other major search engines on speed,
relevance, and other search engine criteria.
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All
Search
Engines:
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Up and
coming Search Engine.
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Alta
Vista:
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The most
popular Search Engine.
Type of Engine: Hybrid- Primary results-Altavista database,
Secondary results-Inktomi.
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AOL:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid- Primary results-DMOZ database, Secondary
results-Looksmart directory.
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Ask:
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Make
queries using plain English.
Uses its own Open Directory and metacrawler to capture results.
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All
the Web:
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Type
of Engine: Pure Spider
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Bomis.com
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Bomis.Com
is an Internet ring index and portal site, indexes web pages
into Bomis Rings.
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Business
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Business.com
claims to deliver the most useful and relevant results every
time.
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C4.com
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C4 is
not a single database like other Internet search sites. Parallel
searching provides you with the ability to search more than
one database at a time.
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Search.com
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A search
engine, CNET provides expert and unbiased advice on technology
products and services to inform users and expedite purchasing.
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Direct
Hit
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Re-directed
to Teoma.com
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DMOZ
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Type
of Engine: Directory: The Open Directory Project is the largest,
most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is
constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of
volunteer editors.
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Dogpile
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is a
metacrawler that simultaneously searches a multitude of individual
search engines and directories including Yahoo!, Looksmart,
and AltaVista.
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EntireWeb
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With
more than 250,000 unique users generates over 2 million page
views monthly, Entireweb.com's global presence includes people
from 116 countries.
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Excite:
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Searches
based on concepts and keywords.
Type of Engine: Hybrid- Primary results-Excite database, Secondary
results-Looksmart directory.
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FindWhat:
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A pay-for-placement
search engine
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Google:
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Good
fast search engine.
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Hot
Bot:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid- Primary Results: DirectHit database, secondary
results -Open Directory.
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Ixquick
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http://www.ixquick.com/
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Infospace:
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Metasearch
Engine Results pulled from search engines.
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Inktomi:
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Is a
back-end database, providing spider-based search results to
major search engines.
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iWon:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid- Primary Results: Looksmart database, secondary
results -Inktomi, Direct Hit.
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Looksmart:
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Type
of Engine: Directory
More than 70,000 subject categories, approximately 2.5 million
websites.
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Lycos:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid. Primary Results: DirectHit database, secondary
results -Open Directory.
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Mamma:
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Type
of Engine: Search Engine. Nine search engines are queried:
Yahoo!, Lycos, GoTo, Infoseek, Looksmart, MSN, NBCi, Kanoodle,
AskJeeves.
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Metacrawler:
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Type
of Engine: Search Engine. Nine search engines are queried:
About, AltaVista, Google, Lycos, GoTo, Infoseek, Looksmart,
MSN, NBCi, Kanoodle, FindWhat, AskJeeves.
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MSN.com:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid. Primary Results: Looksmart database, secondary
results -Inktomi.
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National
Directory:
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Claims
to offer: Less spamming, less repeating sites, less dead pages.
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Netscape:
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Type
of Engine: Hybrid. Primary Results: Open Directory database,
secondary results -Google.
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Northern
Light:
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Pure
spider-based search engine. Recognized as having one of the
largest Web indexes of all the search engines.
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Overture:
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Previously
GoTo: The largest pay-for-placement search engine and the
current market leader.
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ProFusion:
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Powered
by Intelliseek's patented IntelliClip® technology, ProFusion's
Alerts feature enables you to track Web pages or search queries
for updated information.
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Scrub
the
Web:
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Scrub
The Web (owned by Advanced Business Systems).
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Search
Hound:
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The search
engine scours the Internet, other major search engines, as
well as the several million URLs that have been registered
directly with SearchHound.com
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Teoma:
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Teoma
uses Subject-Specific Popularity, whichranks a site based
on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, to
determine a site's level of authority.
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Webbound:
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Web directory
published book and on-line directory.
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Webcrawler:
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Now Overture:
The largest pay-for-placement search engine and the current
market leader.
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WiseNut:
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search
technology company founded by Yeogirl Yun, the former CTO
and co-founder of mySimon.
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Yahoo:
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The most
popular directory.
Type of Engine: Hybrid- Primary results-Yahoo! Directory,
Secondary results-Google database.
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