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 Amfibi
- General search engine with an uncluttered interface
in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also
has a web directory using the Open Directory.
Ask
Jeeves - Uses the
Teoma database to offer search for web sites, news, weather
reports, pictures, stocks, people or products.
Creative
Commons Search - Powered by Nutch, it searches
content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having
to pay or ask permission.
Dumbfind
- Offers the option to specify a general topic as well as
specific keywords for more precise results.
Entireweb
- The English-language version of a Swedish search engine
with a clean interface and large database.
FactBites.com
- A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The
results return complete, informative sentences about the search
topic. Related topics are suggested.
Gigablast
- A search engine with a clean interface, advanced
search options including sorting by date, and a real time
url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
Infosniff
- A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
Mojeek
- Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising.
MSN
Search - Microsoft
provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia,
Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
Objects
Search - An uncluttered interface offers options
to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and
'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open
Directory.
Pipeline
- A clustering engine with a streamlined interface, which
presents all results in one column and clusters by topic in
another.
Scrub
The Web - Search engine
with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering
a meta tag builder and analyzer.
SearchHippo
- Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories.
Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and
code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
Teoma
- Ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters
results into subject groups, and lists related link collections
by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
Ulysseek
- A straightforward search engine with a simple interface.
WiseNut
- Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories.
Preferences settings include search by language and a filter
to remove adult content.
Wotbox
- Search engine with country specific searching. Options to
display country flags, and include preview and translation
features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the
main results.
Seekz
- Meta search engine that gathers results from many web search engines simultaneously. Web sites are merged into a single results set and ordered by relevance. Pages from the same web site are grouped together.
Search
Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article from
the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major
search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising
practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their
users. (April 2, 2002)
Commercial
Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive
Ads - A complaint filed with the United States
Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert
service, which charges the major search engines of inserting
advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure
that the ads are ads. (July 16, 2001)
The
Evolution of Web Searching - David Green's paper
from Online Information Review explores the development of
search engine technologies. (March, 2000)
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