Top choice for web search> very large , effective, fast,  makes heavy use of link popularity  as primary way to rank sites> Provide search to Yahoo. also provide ability to search images.

One of the largest crawler-based search engine on the web. Its comprehensive coverage and power searching capability makes it favorite among searchers.

Formally called "all the web". It aims t index the whole web. First engine that break the 200 million page. owned by Norwegian Co. Its results are provided to numerous portals.

launched 1996 by Lycos.  Like AltaVista, it is another favorite engine due to its large index  an power searching. Its first page results comes from "Direct Hit"  and others pages comes from "Inktomi" It gets its directory from "Open Directory project"

It features one of the largest indexes of the web. It has a special collections of documents not available elsewhere but under fees to view them

Launched  1999 "Go" is a portal site produced by "Infoseek" and "Disney". It offers E-mail pluse search capability of former infoseek which is now folded into Go. It consistently provide quality results and impressive human compiled directory

Started June 1997. It is a human powered search engine that aims to direct you to exact page that answer your question. If it fails to find a match, it will provides from various search engine.

One of the most poular  search services on the web. It offers a medium-sized index. Launched late 1995 but grew quickly

Microsoft MSN is a looksmart powered directory of web sites with secondary results coming from "Inktomi"  

Direct Hit

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Anzwers

Overture

Sprinks

Find What

The web most popular search service with well reputation for helping people finding information. The secret of success is staff behind it employing about 200 people  in effort to categorize the web. It has over 1.8 million  links. It employ GOOGLE  for searching the web.

Human-compiled directory of web sites. It provide directory results to MSN and EXCITE. very successful directory, large and quality backed with 200 persons containing 200,000 categories and more than 2.5 million sites

Google rankings applied to Open Directory. Very Good.

Directory and search of chosen educational links.

Human compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi. and  looksmart, it aims to compete with Yahoo of categorizing the web

Directory created by more than 36000 volunteer editors. Launched in June 1998. Very large and good reference for sites. It contains more than 260,000 categories and around 3.0 million links

• Very nice directory, dozens of categories. It is made of more than 50 subjects indexes that are located at sites distributed around the world.

Meaning Based search engine. Once a query is submitted, our interpretive algorithm parses it and the output is filtered to derive the optimal resultased on an extensive ontology of millions of words, meanings, and their conceptual relationships to othern

It began in 1995 with a directory arranged by subjects and rated by specialists. Galaxy lets you search internet for web pages that contain specific keywords.

 Directory of sites by popularity. Also top 99 search engines.

Best reviewed sites provided by Lycos

Mainly containing shopping, information, and marketing news.

Directory of expert guides, including Web searching.

Directory by educational subject, with annotated entries.

Really cool graphic directory with good reference links.

Directory plus links to search engines.

100 most popular web sites in many categories, including newspapers.

Engine with links to companies and government pages.

Directory of selected sites.

500 selected sites.

SurfWax

Dogpile

Mamma.com

MetaCrawler

ixquick

Redesearch

Encyclopedia Britannica & Internet Guide.

Concordance.com

Great books searchable by keyword.

17,000 short articles (Concise Columbia Encyclopedia).

Almanacs, Encyclopedia, Dictionary.

Concise version of Microsoft's Encarta.

Reference and Library site.

Compton's Encyclopedia

20,000 biographies.

Another encyclopedia.

Searchable book of quotations.

Free access to dozens of reference titles from the world's leading publishers from art to science, business to technology

More reference works. Good.

Links to facts, encyclopedias, dictionaries, news, much more excellent .

Dictionary of Computer Terms.

A global encyclopedia.

 Dictionaries and Thesauruses

Several hundred searchable dictionaries.

The meanings of acronyms.

Extensive index of scholarly Internet resources.

Wonderful list of specific links.

A list of lists, or directory of directories.

50,000 science sites.

10,000 databases, archives, and search engines.

Metasearch database categories plus other databases.

Powered by Intelliseek's InvisibleWeb, another flavor.

Metasearch engine and 1500 specialty search engines.

More searchable databases not accessible to search engines.

 Search hundreds of journals.

Hundreds of databases by category.

Full text magazine articles.

Journals & other free academic content.

Search engine for the invisible Web.

Search engine for photographs and graphics.

Educational arts site from the Getty Museum.

Image search from Google.

Marine Art Information Center. Paintings, photographs, and more.

Lycos' engine for pictures, sounds, movies.

More than 100,000 art images.

National Gallery of London.

Thousands of art images.

Links to dozens of clipart and graphics sites.

Many excellent art works.

Search engine for graphics.

The U. S. National Gallery of Art.

Links to all the arts, including museums.

Links to hundreds of online maps from library at U Texas.

Search discussion groups.

Directory and search for health and medicine.

Lists of mailing lists, newsgroups, ftp sites.

Find companies with Web sites. Corporate data also.

Directory of mailing lists, by category or search.

Search for business info by company or industry.

Directory of people, business, government, cities, more.

Find company web sites by name, location, etc.

Directories by AT&T of people, businesses, toll-free, more.

Search for business web sites by typing business name.

Find businesses, get maps and directions.

Legal resources.

U. S. National Library of Medicine, Grateful Med.

Business-oriented directory and search.

Links to 100,000 newspapers worldwide.

Abstracts and some full text of 200+ journals.

Links to all media.

News and archives.

News, links to 2,000 magazines, magazine digest.

Keeps an eye on the news media.

News, book reviews.

News and archives.

Includes reviews of many titles.

Used, new, hard-to-find, and out of print books.

Lots of books.

Books, interviews.

ACQWeb's Directory of Book Reviews on the Web.

All kinds of book information.

Search for the best price from many bookstores at once.

Book information, reviews, sites with reviews.