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Alexa Toolbar: not only a search engine you have always handy,
but it blocks pop-ups as well! Comes with built-in Google-search, pop-up
blocker, and shows enhanced google search results with screenshots of
the best search results!
google
- simply the best! easy-to-use, fast, reliable, best results! google
offers many extras meanwhile - there is google
mail, google
news, google
maps, google
earth, google
talk, google
desktop search and lots of other stuff - see google
labs to keep up to date! is
google evil?
yahoo - another
classic search-engine with handpicked results and many extras -
e-mail, instant-messenger, shops - if you prefer a clean search
page instead of the overloaded portal, try the yahoo
search page
altavista
- the classic search engine - delivers good results fast
askjeeves - fast
and delivering relevant results, with some new features, like 'narrow
search' and 'expand search'
excite - a
search engine with many extras - offers a cool function, the search
spy which shows you what other people are searching for right
now
hotbot -
popular US-search engine which uses the google, or the askjeeves
search engine, whichever you prefer
msn - the
microsoft search engine - fast and delivers good results
Meta Search Engines
Meta Search Engines don't search the web, they search other Search
Engines' search results to deliver their results. If you
don't want to rely on just one Search Engine, a Meta Search Engine
is the place to go.
ixquick-
meta search-engine with standard-, power- and expert-search option
mamma - fast
meta search-engine, offers an 'refine search' option
dogpile -
meta search-engine, also offers an option similar to 'refine search',
and a recent seach history that can be quite useful
metacrawler
- classic meta search-engine, a bit slow, also offers an 'are you
looking for?' option (which doesn't always show relevant options
unfortunately)
all4one.searchallinone.com
- meta-search engine that delivers results from AllTheWeb, Altavista,
HotBot, Lycos, MSN, Netscape/Google, AOL and Yahoo and offers 'grouped
results' to refine your search
Experimental Search Engines
If you want to try something new and unique and see what the future
may bring regarding search, take a look at some new experimental
Search Engines.
exalead -
beta version. offers related terms and categories, thumbnail previews
and site preview
vivisimo and clusty
- offer clustered search results in an attempt to help you organizing
your search results
kartOO - a
wholly new concept for web search - it's 'visual search' - well
worth a visit (even if only for the curiosity value)
anacubis
- another 'visually enhanced' search engine, using google search
results. unfortunately it works only for IE5 and Netscape 7.1 and
above, but not for alternative browsers
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