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Grimsby Search Engines

Saturday 17th May 2008  

Search Engines - Grimsby area N.E. Lincs.

1. About - About.com, use "guides" who are volunteers who receive a share of About’s advertising revenue. The guides are experts in their field and provide useful content together with links to other sites. Data is also provided by Inktomi. About.com results also appear on Search.com. submit
2. AltaVista - AltaVista was one of the first crawler type search engines started in December 1995. AltaVista offers image, audio and video searching and advanced searching facilities. Directory results are provided by Looksmart. AltaVista results also appear on Search.com. AltaVista was owned by Overture.
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   AltaVista was one of the first crawler type search engines having started in December 1995. AltaVista draws its results from the Yahoo! Search database and is owned by Yahoo!. submit
3. AOL - With the large numbers of people who use AOL as an ISP, AOL's search services are highly significant. The main listings come from Google. submit
4. ComFind - submit
5. Dejannews - submit
6. Dewa - submit
7. Direct Hits - Good relevant results with a popularity scoring system submit
8. Dogpile - Search engine which compiles its results by searching other popular engines and returning combined results all in one place. submit
9. Excite - A European-based search engine which is powered by Google. Also offers a directory powered by the Open Directory Project. submit
10. Fast - Sometimes called FAST Search, this is one of the largest indexes on the web. FAST's results are provided to many portals and sites, including Lycos. The database is also one of the four options that can be queried on Hotbot. All The Web draws its results from the Yahoo! Search database and is owned by Yahoo!. AKA - All The Web, this is one of the largest indexes on the web. FAST's results are provided to many portals and sites, including Lycos, Hotbot UK and also appear on Search.com. The database is also one of the four options that can be queried on Hotbot. FAST was owned by Overture. submit
11. FindLink - submit
12. Findwhat - submit
13. Galaxy - Galaxy claims to be the oldest searchable Internet directory. Its information is compiled and organised by "Human Information Specialists" rather than by computer. submit
14. GOD - submit
15. Google - Google is a search engine that uses link popularity (Page Rank) amongst other techniques to rank web sites. Google claims that this means that sites with the most links to them have been effectively endorsed by the sites that link to them and thus are more popular and should be ranked higher. Google also offers a Directory (powered by The Open Directory Project) and image and Newsgroup searches. Google provides its data to many other search engines including AOL, Euroseek, Freeserve, Go, LookSmart UK, Netscape and Yahoo. The database is also one of the four options that can be queried on Hotbot. submit
16. Hotbot - HotBot started in 1996 and was purchased by Lycos in 1998 but is run separately. Users can select which database results should be drawn from. The options are Fast (All The web), Google, Inktomi, Teoma submit
17. Humor Seek - submit
18. InfoHighway - submit
19. InfoSeek - submit
20. InfoSpace - submit
21. Inktomi - The Inktomi index provides data for many other search engines and directories including About.com, Excite, Looksmart, MSN, Overture and Webcrawler. All of them use the same index, although because Inktomi provides ways for its partners to use the same index yet set their own parameters results vary from search engine to search engine. There is no way to query the Inktomi index directly, as it is only made available through Inktomi's partners in whatever format they decide. The database is also one of the four options that can be queried on Hotbot. Inktomi is owned by Yahoo. submit
22. Iwon - submit
23. Ixquick - Ixquick is a metasearch engine. Comprehensive results, Fast response, Advanced syntax support. submit
24. Ixquick - Ixquick submits your search to the major search engines and finds sites that are universally ranked in the top ten submit
25. JayDe - submit
26. LookSmart - submit
27. Lycos - Lycos’s main listings come from the FAST (All The Web). In 1998, Lycos acquired HotBot which continues to be run separately. submit
28. Mamma - The Mother Of All Search Engines submit
29. Matilda Direct - submit
30. Megellan - submit
31. Mirago - Mirago is a search engine aimed specifically at UK businesses and families. As well as indexing UK and Irish they also index International sites which are of interest to residents of the British Isles. Mirago offers the ability to ask plain English questions. submit
32. MSN - submit
33. MultiMeta - submit
34. Nerd World - submit
35. Northernlights - submit
36. Open Directory Project - The Open Directory Project uses volunteer editors to catalogue the web. It was launched in 1998 as NewHoo. It was acquired by Netscape in November 1998 when the company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license agreement. A lot of search engines and directories use Open Directory data including Euroseek, Google, Hotbot and Splut. submit
37. Overture - Formally known as GoTo, Overture sells its main listings on a per click basis which it says improves relevancy. The contrasting view is that many sites of importance are not listed because they refuse to pay for a listing. Non-paid results come from Inktomi. Overture owns FAST Search and AltaVista. Overture listings appear as “sponsored” or “featured” sites on many search engines and directories including AltaVista, Lycos, MSN, Netscape, Search.com and Yahoo (Not Yahoo UK). submit
38. PlanetSearch - submit
39. PrimeFind - submit
40. Rex - submit
41. Riot - submit
42. Scrub the Net - submit
43. Seach a Lot - Searchalot - We search a lot so you don't have to submit
44. Search - Search.com is a meta search engine operated by CNET. Results are drawn from About.com, All The Web, AltaVista, Overture, Teoma and others. submit
45. Search 7 - submit
46. SearchHippo - SearchHippo.com Web Search submit
47. Snoopa - submit
48. Starting Point - submit
49. Super Snooper - submit
50. Teoma - Owned by Ask Jeeves, to whom it also provides its data. Three categories of results are returned for each search. The first is web results. The second is a list of suggested options to refine the search. The third is a list of sites from experts and enthusiasts which are themselves links to sites dealing withy the subject of the search. The database is also one of the four options that can be queried on Hotbot. submit
51. UK Index - submit
52. UK Plus - UK Plus launched in 1997 as a directory featuring reviews of sites in the UK or relevant to people in the UK. In 2002 BT Looksmart purchased UK Plus and results now come from Looksmart UK. submit
53. WebCrawler - WebCrawler launched in 1994. AOL purchased WebCrawler in 1995 but sold it to Excite in 1996. Excite continued to run WebCrawler as a separate search engine until its demise. As with Excite, WebCrawler is now owned by Infospace and operates as a meta search engine drawing results from FAST (All The Web), Ask Jeeves, Inktomi, About, Looksmart and Overture and other sources. submit
54. What U Seek - submit
55. Where2Go - submit
56. Wisenut - A relatively new search engine that appeared in 2001 with a database nearly as large as the biggest players. Bought by LookSmart in April 2002 this search engine is expected to be amongst the most popular search engines in the near future. submit
57. World Search - submit
58. Yahoo - Yahoo is the oldest major web site directory, having launched in late 1994 and is considered by many to be the most popular search service Yahoo is compiled by human editors and this means that it is relatively small compared to other databases. Yahoo integrates Google results in with its own. Yahoo owns Inktomi. submit

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