Web Search Engines List

Abbreviations– for abbreviations

ABC Search engine– every search starts with ABC

About– for guidance, not guesswork

Acronym finder– for over 750,000 human edited definitions

Ajaxwhois– is a great for site statistics searches

Alexa– is good for finding information on the top 100k sites

AllPlus – meta search and discovery engine

AlltheWeb – part of the Yahoo family

AltaVista– is still out there, still doing a good job

Answers– is the world’s leading Q&A site

AOL Search– no, I didn’t think it was still going, but it is

Ask (Jeeves)– still limping along, shadow of its former self

Ask– if you want the US/global version

Azoos– is the brightest yellow search engine out there

Backtype– for realtime conversational search

Beaucoup– has been around a while, but doesn’t impress me

Behold– for flickr images

Betterwhois– gets you good accurate information on domains

Blindsearch– to compare results of major engines

Blinkx– is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it!

Browsys– is a multi search engine

ChaCha– allows you get other people to help with your search

Collarity– for personalised searching across different types of data

Collecta– for real time search

CompletePlant– for 70k of searchable databases. Good for deep web

Country search engines– is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries

Definitions– is good for thousands of definitions

Deepdyve– for deep web searching

Digital Librarian– a librarian’s choice of the best of the web

DMOZ– for a hierarchical directory, old but still good

Dogpile– for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB)

Dooblet– finds alternatives for you

Draze– to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing

DuckDuckGo– is a family safe engine

eBingBong– is another social search engine

Entireweb– is a freetext search engine

Exalead– is an excellent alternative to Google

Excite– is there, but does anyone use it any more?

Factbites– where results make sense

Factery Labs– finds facts on trending subjects

FaganFinder– is a superb collection of search resources

Favitt– multisearch with option to add your own sites

Fefoo– multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines

Findanyfilm– available in the UK in any format

FindSounds– for sound effects

FinQoo– is an underwhelming meta search engine

Freesearch– is a UK based search resource

Galaxy– is a directory based search engine

Google– doesn’t need any words from me

Great PDF– search engine – does exactly that – PDF search

healia– is an excellent medical search engine

Hotbot– is a blast from the past and that’s about all

Hunch– is a decision engine, which works very well indeed

iBoogie– is a clustering meta search engine

Icerocket– has RSS feed options and is a good alternative

IllumiRate– lights your way through the web. Apparently.

Infomine– for scholarly data, and is excellent

Info Service– is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though

Internet Archive– to see all those old pages!

Intute– for academic resources. First class service

Irazoo– search, win gift cards. I want to search, not win $5

Iseek– is a clustering search engine; very good too

Ixquick– is an excellent metasearch engine

Jux2– compares Google, Yahoo and Bing results. Very useful

KidsClick– is websearch for children by librarians

KidRex– is another children’s safe search engine

Kngine– styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine

Letzfind– framed multi search engine. Lots of resources

Librarians’ Internet Index– is a brilliant resource

LocateTV– find shows, actors and movies

Lyrics– is a great search engine to find those song lyrics. V. Good.

Lycos– is still out there, but getting old and creaky

Macroglossa– Visual search engine Upload image, see what it finds

Mahalo– for social search, human created information resources

Mamma– is the mother of all meta search engines

Melzoo– results on the left, fullscreen page on the right pane

MetaCrawler– is a meta search engine

Middlespot– is a visual search engine

Monstercrawler– for a GYAB search

Navisso– is a search engine that doesn’t push official sites up

Newscred– for credible news stories

Nobrandsearch– Search 3 engines blindtesting. Which is best?

OAIster– for academic material that’s otherwise hard to find

OmniMedicalSearch– is a top notch medical search engine

OneRiot– for realtime search

Online Casinos– Arranged by location, type, games, reviews etc

Oxysearch– is a multi search engine for GYAB and Pixsy

Panabee– for comparing results from different search engines

Pepesearch– for freetext and directory search. Not impressed

Phrases.net– for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms

Pinakes– is a superb collection of virtual libraries

Pokersites– is the premier guide to the best online poker sites

PolyMeta– is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine

Questfinder– is a selective web directory

Quotes.net– for famous and not so famous quotations

Quintura– for visual search in a word/tag cloud

Redz– for visual search – an arch of webpage thumbnails

References– is a good source of reference resources

Re-QUEST– is a directory based engine

Rhymes.net– is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme,with

translation and pronounciation options as well.

Scandoo– checks for authority of the results it returns

Scirus– for scientific data – great for academic use

Scoopler– for real time search

Scour– to search socially, see community votes and comments

Searchbug– for people and company search in the US

Search– is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it

Searchboth– lets you compare results for 9 different engines

Searchbots– is a ‘build your own’ resource

Searchdazzle– puts 4 engines on one page. Messy!

Searchhippo– is another multisearch engine that doesn’t excite me

SearchMedia– is a UK medical search engine for professionals

Searchthene– is a multisearch engine – 20 engines offered

SearchtheWeb– is a directory engine which fails to impress

Select Surf– selects the best sites the web has to offer, apparently

Sency– for real time, what’s happening this moment information

Similar-site– finds similar sites to that which you provide

Similarsites– finds similar sites to that which you provide

Similicio.us– finds similar sites to that which you provide

Silobreaker– is the #1 news site out there, bar none

Siteslike– is a find similar sites engine

SlideFinder– searches for Powerpoint presentations

Slider– is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ

SmartLinks– provides quick links in a directory structure

SnapBird– for Twitter searching

Spacetime 3D– looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine

Spezify– for multisearch visual results

Sproose– search and recommend social search engine

Stilltasty– is a food date/edibility search engine

Struly– is a very neat multi search engine

Surchur– for real time search

Sunsteam– is a directory engine, now 10 years old

Sweetsearch– evaluated sources designed for students

Synonyms net– is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource

Technorati– for blog search

The Net 1– is a directory engine

Thunderstone– is a website catalog, directory based engine

Tinker– for real time serach didn’t impress me in the slightest

TopSite– Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject

Trooker– is a great video search engine resource

Turbo10– used to be a great hidden web engine, now just freetext

Turboscout– is an excellent multi search engine

Tweepsearch– for Twitter biography searching

Twurdy– checks for readability in search results

WebBrain– is a human created set of search resources

WebCrawler– is a meta engine for GYAB

Webkruz– is a visual search engine

Web-Search– is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources

WebWorld– for quality sites on the web, in a directory style

Whozat– is the people search engine

Wolfram Alpha– is a computational search engine; good but different!

Wozzon– is a UK events search engine. Works well

WWW Virtual Library– for directory listing of virtual libraries

Xaphoo– is a multi search engine but not exciting

Yabigo– searches Yahoo, Bing and Google

Yahoo– needs no introduction either

Yahoo– for kids safe search

Yelbol– is a knowledge based (smart) search

Yohogo– is a multi search engine, but nothing special

YouTube– is for videos, but you knew that already

Zakta– is a personalised search engine resource

Zapmeta– searches all the major engines

123 people– is a UK people search engine

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