Search Engines

Below are some of my favourite search engines. It's worth spending some time to find at how the different one work to get the best out of them. If one doesn't give you the answer you're looking for try another! 

Ordinary

Alta Vista
Looks in more sites than most simple search engines

Clusty
Organized search results with document clustering.

Daypop
A current events/weblog/news search engine

Google
Everyone's favourite search engine. 

Look Smart
Use search engine or choose categories

Lycos
Your personal Internet guide

Northern Light
Northern Light organizes all the results returned for your search into Custom Search Folders by subject, type, source, and language.

Yahoo
Popular Directory

British Search Engines

Abrexa
Abrexa UK is unique among search engines, with reviewed sites featuring star ratings, spam warnings, privacy checks and age classifications. Abrexa UK only covers sites specific to the UK

Alta Vista -UK
UK version of the Alta Vista search engine

Google
High quality search results

Search UK
Search engine which covers more than most British sites

Yahoo (UK)
UK version of Yahoo

Multiple Search Engines

Ask Jeeves
Multiple search engine that understands plain English

Ixquick
Enables you to search for news, mp3's and pictures as well

Dogpile
When other search engines let you down

Killer Info
A fast and easy to use search tool that also puts results in groups

Mamma
The mother of all search engines

Metacrawler
The original Metacrawler

Search Bug
Search for news, images, music and more

Surfwax
Good metasearcher with extra features

Yureka
The internet's first "Find" engine

Copernic
Free software you need to download. Looks in several search engines and removes duplicate hits and dead links.  Well worth having!

Information on Search Engines

Search Engine Watch
Superb site that tells you all sorts of useful information about search engines

 ICYouSee
Site featuring even more search engines!

Types of Search Tools
A guide from UC Berkeley

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