List of Best Search Engines
What follows is my compilation of the best search engines out there today. Search engines are a tool that enables users to locate information on the World Wide Web. Search engines use keywords entered by users to find Web sites which contain the information sought.
The first Web search engine was "Wandex", a now-defunct index collected by the World Wide Web Wanderer, a web crawler developed by Matthew Gray at MIT in 1993. Another very early search engine, Aliweb, also appeared in 1993 and still runs today. One of the first engines to later become a major commercial endeavor was Lycos, which started at Carnegie Mellon University as a research project in 1994.
Soon after, many search engines appeared and vied for popularity. These included WebCrawler, Hotbot, Excite, Infoseek, Inktomi, and AltaVista. In some ways they competed with popular directories such as Yahoo!. Later, the directories integrated or added on search engine technology for greater functionality.
In 2002, Yahoo! acquired Inktomi and in 2003, Yahoo! acquired Overture, which owned All theWeb and Altavista. In 2004, Yahoo! launched its own search engine based on the combined technologies of its acquisitions and providing a service that gave pre-eminence to the Web search engine over the directory.
Google
http://www.google.com
Still numero uno
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com
Coming back strong
MSN Search
http://search.msn.com
Watch these guys over the next year
All TheWeb
http://www.alltheweb.com
AOL Search
http://aolsearch.aol.com (internal)
http://search.aol.com/(external)
Ask Jeeves search directory
http://www.askjeeves.com
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com
Teoma
http://www.teoma.com
LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com
Open Directory directory
http://dmoz.org/
AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com
Netscape
http://search.netscape.com
Excite
http://www.excite.com
Best Meta Search Engine List
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com
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