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- Aesop
Search
The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag
to allow webmasters to automatically describe
their site.
- All
Academic
A searchable database of academic publications:
journals, working papers, convention papers
and magazine articles. Also has an A-Z list
of links to online journals.
- AllTheWeb
Search with a simple interface and huge database.
Also offers news, picture, video, MP3 and
FTP search. Uses the Open Directory category
structure to create the 'Fast Topics' option
in search results.
- 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
The polite butler answers questions asked
in plain English. Search the web, news or
shopping. If there is no good match in its
own database, Jeeves offers top Looksmart
results. There is also an option to browse
the Open Directory.
- DeepIndex
European search engine offering interfaces
in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian
and Spanish.
- 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.com
A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek
with advertising.
- Objects
Search
An uncluttered interface offers options to
search the web, news and blogs, or the UDDI
Business Registry. The websearch includes
cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles
and descriptions from the Open Directory.
- Official
Search
Searchable directory of the authorized web
sites of companies, organizations, celebrities,
government and sports.
- 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
Using the same database as Ask Jeeves, it
ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity.
Clusters results into subject groups, and
lists related link collections by experts
and enthusiasts where appropriate.
- TrueSearch
A search engine with a simple interface.
- Walhello
Search engine developed in the Netherlands,
with a novel feature - results show if a site
contains multimedia. It has a directory using
ODP data and results include ODP categories.
- Wayback
Machine Recall
Search archived pages starting from 1996.
Shows term popularity across time and allows
searches for periods of time on the web.
- WiseNut
Index of 1.5 billion pages. 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.
- Zerx
You can view sites related to another site,
or refine your existing search using that
site.
- 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 US 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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