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These Search Engines and Directories are not law-specific

  • Alta Vista [Search]
    directory listings come from Open Directory and Look Smart; human answers to searches come from Ask Jeeves,
  • AOL Search
    uses Open Directory catalog and Inktomi search engine
  • Ask Jeeves
    a human-powered search service some results from which appear on AltaVista
  • Direct Hit
    measures what users click on of search results at its own and partner sites to create a popularity relevance ranking
  • Excite
    a very popular search service with a large index owned by Ask Jeeves
  • FAST Search
    aims to index the entire web, owned by a Norwegian company which is associated with Lycos, previously called All The Web
  • Go.com
    Infoseek/Disney portal with human-compiled directory of web sites
  • Google
    search engine using link popularity to rank web sites achieving high relevancy, provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search
  • GoTo
    sells its main listings and gets other results from Inktomi
  • HotBot
  • inferenceFind
  • Infoseek
  • Inktomi
    started at Berkeley, now a separate company with an index which powers several other services which apply their own filters and ranking systems
  • Internet country domain names [Search]
    2 digit country codes for countries on the internet; sorted by country and by abbreviation; use to limit scope of searches
  • iWon
    financed by US CBS television network with a directory of websites from Inktomi
  • LookSmart
    human-compiled directory of websites which provides results to MSN Search, Excite and others, and uses Inktomi
  • Lycos
    uses a directory model like Yahoo's, taking results from Open Directory, FAST Search and Direct Hit
  • MSN Search
    Microsoft service, using LookSmart directory of websites and some results from Inktomi, RealNames, and Direct Hit
  • Netscape (US) 'Net Search' page
    list of internet search engines and directories
  • Netscape Search
    directory listings come mainly from Open Directory andsearch results from Google
  • Northern Light
    search engine with large index including access to free and fee based material
  • Open Directory
    uses volunteers to catalog the web and has open licence agreements with Netscape, Lycos and AOL Search, also used by HotBot and AltaVista
  • Raging Search
    same search engine as AltaVista with fewer protal features
  • RealNames
  • SavvySearch
  • Search Engine Watch
    Technical information about the capacity and performance of internet-wide search engines.
  • Search Engines Worldwide [Search]
    List of more than 1000 search engines of 174 countries worldwide
  • Snap
    human-compiled directory of websites with search results from Inktomi
  • Telstra Springboard - List of Indexes
  • Teoma [Search]
    Delivers three types of search responses: Relevant web pages, Suggestions to narrow your search, and Link collections from experts and enthusiasts
  • WebCrawler
    a separate search engine owned by Excite but with a smaller index
  • WebTop
    crawler-based search engine with a large index
  • Yahoo
    largest human-compiled idnex to the web supplemented by results from Google

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