Looking for search engine

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  1. Rainwalker

    Rainwalker Registered Member

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    I am interested in looking at search engines that are really not in the main stream as such, but do a fine job for most surfers............... any thoughts :)
     
  2. MikeBCda

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    My personal favorite is DogPile, mainly because it's a multi-engine searcher -- uses Google plus several others. It used to display a separate results list for each engine, but they've cleaned it up recently so you now get a single "master" list sorted by pertinence. Still some duplicates, but not nearly as many as before.
     
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    bigc73542 Retired Moderator

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    AllTheWeb and metacrawler are a couple more.
     
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    Tassie_Devils Global Moderator

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    Hi Rainwalker:

    Here are some I've used for various reasons.

    Ask Jeeves http://www.ask.com/?o=0
    Killer Info http://www.killerinfo.com/
    Galazy http://www.galaxy.com/
    Excite http://msxml.excite.com/
    Lycos http://sjc-search.sjc.lycos.com/
    AltaVista http://www.altavista.com/
    AllTheWeb http://www.alltheweb.com/
    Yahoo http://search.yahoo.com/
    Search http://www.search.com/
    NorthernLight http://www.northernlight.com/
    Beaucoup http://www.beaucoup.com/
    SubmitExpress http://www.submitexpress.com/
    Vivisimo http://vivisimo.com/
    ixQuaick http://www.ixquick.com/
    KartOO http://www.kartoo.com/
    Environmental Organisation Web Directory [Brilliant for environmental issues] http://www.webdirectory.com/

    Music [midi, you name it] MusicRobot http://www.musicrobot.com/

    New one in the making, but contains lots of search engine links already. AllOneSearch http://www.allonesearch.com/


    Medical World Search [*anything* medical] http://www.mwsearch.com/

    SearchEngines for search engines on search engines, lol http://www.searchengines.com/

    IMAGES [Google/Yahoo also have image sections, probably others also, did not check]

    Picsearch http://www.picsearch.com/
    Clipart http://www.clipart.com/en/

    FOR KIDS SAFE SURFING SEARCHING ENGINES. [Excellent]
    Kid's Search Tools http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm

    I have more, but I think that will tide you over for a while :D

    Cheers, TAS
     
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    Thanks all :) .....i knew of most of those....just wondering if there was something i was missing. Saw some new ones that i will use( thanks again Adrian)...
    there was was one in particular i hoped to see listed, in order to test drive, but it was not listed....it is a multi engine and begins with Cop...... anyone know :doubt:
    BTW... a few months i was reading something about one or two state of the art engines in developement....anyone know anything about this and where the projects might be now?.....Thanks again all.....anything other then Google :mad:
    and to think once upon a time when it was unknown i sang it's praises.
    :mad:
     
  8. tracker3

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    OK-I disagree about using Ask Jeeves. AJ is getting into the big time spyware business. AskJeeves has merged w another co. and now runs MyWebSearch Bar, MyWay.com, MyWebSearch.com MySearch.com, and all their ugly cousins (see, e.g., www.websearchu.com/AskJeeves.shtml
    or http://searchenginewatch.com/search...cle.php/3337511) which are BHOs and hijackers. AskJeeves also runs MaxOnLine, which says at http://www.maxonline.com/direct_mar...egistration.php that it's products allow "direct marketers to acquire permission-based information from a consumer during the registration process on the MaxOnline Network of partner websites" a/k/a "steal private information in confusing adware click-thru's and sell victims' e-mail addresses to spammers." There are hundreds of web sites where users complain about the difficulty of removing AskJeeves properties.
     
  9. no13

    no13 Retired Major Resident Nutcase

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    Wouldn't YOU like to know?
    something s'posed to be deleted, but still exists...
    http://directory.google.com/

    edit:
    links to (and is related to) the open directory project www.dmoz.org....
    look at the bottom of the page.... [font=sans-serif, Arial, Helvetica][size=-2]
    [/size][/font]
     
  10. HandsOff

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    Perhaps a more descriptive name for their service would be "Ask Thieves"


    - HandsOff
     
  11. Huwge

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    As a backup for Google I use Teoma
     
  12. nadirah

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    Try google or yahoo, they are my two favourites. I get most of my images from google. I just do a google image search and i've many pictures at my fingertips.
     
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