Search Engines, Meta-Search Engines, and the invisible Web
Google
...this search tool has a "well-deserved reputation as the top choice for those searching the Web"
AlltheWeb
...this search tool is "an excellent crawler-based search engine. If you tried Google and didn't find it
All the Web should be next on your list"
Yahoo
...now powered by Google, "consider Yahoo anytime you think you may be well served
by having a list of human-reviewed Web sites"
Ask Jeeves
...pose a question in natural language to select results among a database of similar questions
Lycos
...this search engine has a different look, but it "provides the same relevancy and
comprehensiveness found at All the Web"
HotBot
...this search engine provides "easy access to the Web's four major crawler-based search
engines: AlltheWeb.com/FAST, Google, Inktomi, and Teoma"
Vivisimo
...a meta-search engine that organizes results from a variety of search tools into hierarchies of topics and
subtopics
Ixquick
...a meta-search tool with a "greatest hits" approach to results
DogPile
...a popular meta-search engine that sends a search to "to search engines, directories, and
speciality search sites and then displays results from each search engine individually"
Complete Planet
...a search tool that identifies databases and subject-specific resources not easily found using search engines
* Look at the search engine chart in the LMC's Help! booklet for assistance on how to use each search engine.
* Please note: Most of the information on the above search engines was gathered from <www.searchenginewatch.com/>