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Subject and Keyword Search Engines

A9.com
AltaVista
 
Ask Jeeves
Allows natural language searching (e.g., What is the speed of light?).
BigClique
Biolinks
"Internet Search Engine Designed by Scientists, for Scientists !!!"
Clusty
Exalead
Excite
Galaxy
 
Gigablast
GO.com
Requires free registration.
Google
HotBot
IceRocket Web Search
Librarians' Internet Index
Annotated subject directory. Sites are selected and evaluated by librarians.
Lycos
Mooter
Northern Light
Open Directory Project
Scirus: For Scientific Information Only
Teoma Search
WebCrawler
Yahoo
A subject directory of internet sites.

Meta-Search Engines

  • Permit simultaneous searching of the most popular search engines and their databases of web pages.
  • Limited to fairly simple and straightforward searches.
Dogpile
Gives a sequential list of hits after each search tool queried.
InfoGrid
Infonetware
Ithaki
Ixquick
KartOO
MetaCrawler
Produces groups of words or phrases found in the results.
ProFusion
Proteus or Proteus Advanced
Proteus and Proteus Advanced offer the opportunity to select from a menu of search engines.
Query Server
SurfWax
Vivísimo
Clusters results into various categories.
ZapMeta

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