See also: Search Strategies and
Search Tips at Microsoft and
Ranked according to Search Engine Showdown test Aug. 2001.
- Google 6,500 hits (6 unique hits) Google Tips
- All The Web (Fast) 5,000 hits (40 unique hits)
- Wisenut 4,600 hits
- Northern Light 3,250 hits (10 unique hits)
- HOTBOT (Inktomi) 3,200 hits
- AltaVista 3,100 hits (23 unique hits)
(Advanced Query)
- MSN (Inktomi) 3,000 hits (1 unique hits)
- Teoma
- Excite (18 unique hits)
- NBCi (Uses GoTo pay for ranking database)
- Yahoo
- WebCrawler (incl. netnews FAQ)
- Search using InfoSeek (incl. netnews FAQ) (15M page views/day) (10% coverage)
- NetNews (groups.google)
- Magazine Articles
- Lycos (Advanced Search) "to be", + , , - (12M page views/day) (3% coverage)
- AskJeeves
- Magellan
- SEARCH.COM at C|net.
- FindIt at iTools.
- Open Text
- List of Search Engines at the U. of Geneva
- Information Broker at Bellcore's Operations Consulting Server.
- W3 Search Engine List at Teleport
- EINet Galaxy
- ALIWEB (Archie-Like Indexing for the Web; ability to search catalog of many www sites (frequently unavailable)
- JumpStation
and Beta JumpStation II
Choose search form
or search by header or by
title.
Meta Search Engines - Combines results of multiple search engines
Old Web Pages
www.archive.org/
Search Engine Info
Search Engine Watch
PC Meter list Top 10 Search Engines in 4Q '96)