SPECIALTY SEARCH ENGINES & SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION
Other Important Search Engines
About.com
http://www.about.com/
About.com, formerly the Mining Company, offering original content in various areas. While About.com isn't really a search service, the guides do have extensive links to other sites .
Britannica.com
http://www.britannica.com/
Links to top web sites and content from the Encyclopedia Britannica, in one place.
WebWombat
http://www.webwombat.com.au/
Search engine which lists pages from sites within the .au ( Australia ) and .nz ( New Zealand ) domains. It also provides global coverage.
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
WebCrawler is operated by Excite@Home and offers the same results as can be found at Excite@Home's flagship site, Excite.com. WebCrawler was originally a completely independent service.
PepeSearch
http://www.pepesearch.com/
Uses search results from FAST (see the Major Search Engines page).
Aeiwi
http://www.aeiwi.com/
Not your normal search engine, Aeiwi has you click on words to build your search. Reading the instructions is a must, but they aren't long.
Links2Go
http://www.links2go.com/
A directory-style search engine that uses artificial intelligence techniques to cluster related topics and URLs together.
Editor Search Engines & Volunteer Based Search Engines
Open Directory
http://dmoz.org/
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web. Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched in June 1998. It was acquired by Netscape in November 1998, and the company pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through an open license arrangement. Netscape itself was the first licensee. Netscape-owner AOL also uses Open Directory information, as does Google and Lycos. All of these services are described more on the Major Search Engines page.
Zeal
http://www.zeal.com/
Volunteer-driven directory where the community submits and rates web sites. Zeal is owned by LookSmart and provides listings for LookSmart's non-commercial categories. See the Major Search Engines page for more about LookSmart.
Hotrate.com
http://www.hotrate.com/
Volunteers either edit categories or simply participate as reviewers. The service is also supposed to provide rewards, including cash, to its contributors. Non-categorized results come from Google.
HotLinks
http://www.hotlinks.com/
Uses bookmarks contributed by its members to allow users to search for sites of interest.
My Octopus
http://my.octopus.com/
Allows anyone to create collections of information around different topics that are called "views." Views are extremely powerful. In addition to links to web pages, a view can contain parts of web pages, images, "informational elements" that pull data such as sports scores into a view, and more. It's also possible to search through the entire collection of contributed public view.
Xoron
http://www.xoron.com/
Based on the Open Directory, Xoron allows its editors to build out category listings and pays them for revenue generated by their areas. Formerly called Wherewithal, the directory changed its name in mid-2001 so that the Wherewithal name could be used for the company's collaborative editing software.
Paid Listings Search Engines
Overture (GoTo)
http://www.overture.com/
Overture is the oldest and most important paid placement search engine, because it distributes its listings to a wide-range of major search engines, including AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot,Yahoo,MSN and Netscape Search. The company changed its name from GoTo to Overture in October 2001.
FindWhat.com
http://www.findwhat.com/
FindWhat is an important paid placement service because the company distributes its results on the Excite search engine (see the Major Search Engines page), as well as on many major metacrawlers.
Sprinks
http://sprinks.about.com/
Paid placement service that posts links to appropriate areas within the About.com network of subject sites.
Espotting.com
http://www.espotting.com/
Major paid placement service targeting users in the United Kingdom and Europe . Has wide distribution on UK search engines such as Lycos, Netscape and Ask Jeeves.
NBCi
http://nbci.msnbc.com/
NBCi provides listings from Dogpile, a meta search engine that is dominated by paid listing services. It was formerly a human-compiled directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi. It was also formerly known as Snap but had a name change in late 2000.
Go (Infoseek)
http://www.go.com/
Go is the former portal site that grew out of the old Infoseek search engine. Owned by Disney, the company abandoned further development of Go in March 2001. Search is still available at Go; however, the results are simply paid listings provided by Overture (see above).
Bay9.com
http://www.bay9.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites. Formerly known as Rocketlinks.
Kanoodle
http://www.kanoodle.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
ePilot.com
http://www.epilot.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
ValleyAlley
http://www.valleyalley.com/
Paid listing service with some distribution on meta search sites.
Ah-ha.com
http://www.ah-ha.com/
Billed as a kid-safe service powered by FAST Search.
Godado
http://www.godado.tv/
Paid placement search engine targeting countries in Europe . Select your particular country of interest from links at the bottom of the home page.
eFind.com
http://www.efind.com/
Advertisers can bid to be listed at the top of search results.
Win4Win
http://www.win4win.com/
Paid placement search engine Launched in May 2000.
theinfodepot.com
http://theinfodepot.com/
Paid placement service based on Open Directory information.
PayPerClickSearchEngines.com
http://www.payperclicksearchengines.com/
Major News Search Engines
AltaVista News
http://news.altavista.com/
Powered by Moreover, this provides access to a wide-range of news information, updated constantly throughout the day. A top choice.
Moreover
http://w.moreover.com/
Impressive news site that gathers headlines from over 1500 sources, then groups them into nearly 300 newsfeeds. It's one stop shopping for virtually any area of interest.
Yahoo News
http://news.yahoo.com/
News coverage powered by editors at Yahoo.
Ananova
http://www.ananova.com/
News search engine that provides coverage from about 1,500 different sources. It also features a "virtual newscaster" called Ananova.
Excite NewsTracker
http://news.excite.com/
Excite's news-only search service that can be trained to learn what you like by news topic.
News Index
http://www.newsindex.com/
Indexes news stories from hundreds of sources, worldwide. The goal is to refresh the index once per hour. Launched in April 1996.
Northern Light's Current News
http://www.northernlight.com/news.html
Information in the index is gathered from various news sources, such as the Associated Press and Business Wire. Content is constantly refreshed throughout the day. Options include the ability to sort news by date or relevance, and to narrow searches to within predefined categories and timespans.
NewsHub
http://www.newshub.com/
News from a variety of sources worldwide.
InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com/
In a compact format, InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites and topical web sites in different categories. Meta search and news searching is also offered.
NewsTrawler
http://www.newstrawler.com/nt/nt_home.html
Allows you to send a query to one or more news sites from one location. Hundreds of sites are listed, by country and by category.
NewsNow
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
Search up to 30 days worth of headlines from nearly 150 news sources. Especially aimed at UK users.
1stHeadlines
http://www.1stheadlines.com/
News search engine that includes local, regional, national and international news sources.
TotalNews
http://www.totalnews.com/
Paperball
http://paperball.fireball.de/
Produced by the German Fireball search service, Paperball lets you search for German news.
Specialty Search Engines & Answers Searching
Ask Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question.
Allexperts.com
http://www.allexperts.com/
Pick a category, then choose a volunteer, then ask your question.
Information Please
http://www.infoplease.com/
Information Please almanacs are favorites among researchers who need trustworthy facts. This site allows searching across Information Please's various almanacs, its encyclopedia and its dictionary.
Experts Exchange
http://www.experts-exchange.com/
Free "ask an expert" site.
Webhelp.com
http://www.webhelp.com/webhelp/
Enter a question, and within a few minutes, a human being will respond with an answer via this web site
Computer Related Search Engines
CNET Download.com
http://download.cnet.com/
Lists and reviews thousands of Windows, Macintosh, DOS, Linux, Palm OS, Windows CE, and BeOS software programs.
Internet.com Downloads
http://www.internet.com/sections/downloads.html
Provides links to several major sites operated by Internet.com.
SoftCrawler.com
http://www.data-wizard.de/SoftCrawler/index.php3
Search for software, shareware and freeware using this metasearch service.
TUCOWS
http://www.tucows.com/
Thousands of software titles reviewed and available for download, including freeware, shareware, utilties, demo and more. Covers all major computing platforms.
Lycos Computers / FTP Search
http://computers.lycos.com/downloads/dindex.asp
Searching for software and other computer files..
The Macintosh Search Engine
http://search.applelinks.com/
A directory with links to everything Macintosh, including daily software updates.
WinFinder
http://www.communautech.com/annuaire/winfinder.asp
A search engine exclusively for Microsoft Windows NT and the BackOffice environment. It has indexed over 2 million related web pages and also has sites organized by category.
Bitpipe.com
http://www.bitpipe.com/
Searching for computing and IT topics.
Gamez.com
http://gamez.com/
Directory of game sites.
Compilers Homepage
http://www.compilers.net/
Directory of resources about compilers.
GamePages
http://www.gamepages.com/
Directory of gaming sites.
SecureRoot Underground
http://www.secureroot.com/
Search engine with links about computer security, hacking and the Internet underground.
Sourcebank
http://www.devx.com/sourcebank/
Directory of programming resources. Lists Java, C, C++, research papers and online magazine articles.
Videogiochi.net
http://www.videogiochi.net/
Find video games sites from classic arcade to recent 128 bit console in this directory
AcornSearch
http://www.acornsearch.com/
Search engine for ARM, RISC OS and desktop workstations formerly made by Acorn Computers.
Palowireless.com Wireless Resource Center
http://www.palowireless.com/
Search engine and directory for wireless professionals. Covers Bluetooth, WAP, i-mode, HomeRF, HiperLAN, IEEE 802.11, SMS, 3G and other wireless technologies.
Enfused
http://www.enfused.com/
Games search directory and portal.
SPARC Product Directory
http://www.sparcproductdirectory.com/
Guide to SPARC compatible manufacturers, products and resellers.
Domain Search Engines & Domain Searching
0dns Domain Resources
http://www.0dns.org/
A great resource for all things domain. Helpful links, news and a wizard to find domain names.
Amnesi
http://www.amnesi.com/
Can't remember the exact URL of a web site? Tell Amnesi what you remember, and it will provide of list of sites it thinks match. The Java interface is a bit clunky and slow, but the results are impressive.
Checkdomain.com
http://checkdomain.com/
Allows you to check on domain availability with countries around the world. Launched in August 1996.
Domainator
http://www.e-gineer.com/domainator/
Quickly discover if a domain name is available, along with whether a trademark for the term has been registered, discover related words, and more.
EuroSubmit.com Domain Name Search
http://www.eurosubmit.com/search.html
Check for domain name availability worldwide.
Domain name registries around the world
http://www.0dns.net/
A guide to those in charge of domain registration services worldwide.
DomainSurfer
http://www.domainsurfer.com/
Check for registered domains with common US-endings such as .com and .edu.
Clickey
http://www.clickey.com/
Enter keywords, select the domain search option, this service will locate active sites with domain names that contain those keywords.
101domain.com
http://www.101domain.com/
Universal domain name search engine. Look up domain names in most TLDs including countries and new TLDs, forward and reverse domain lookup.
Domain Search
http://www.domainsearch.com/
Domain name search engine allows you to check the availability of over 60 different domain extensions at the same time. Also provides WHOIS information on all registered domains.
101domainregister.com
http://www.101domainregister.com/
Enter search terms and find matching domains in .com, .edu, .net and .org domains
Legal Search Engines & Government Search Engines
Legal Search Engine
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/
A directory of legal web sites, produced by the people behind LawCrawler.
LawCrawler
http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/
An Google-powered search engine that returns information only from sites that have been identified as dealing with legal issues.
Law.com
http://www.law.com/
You won't find the ability to search legal-related web pages, but there are lots of links, and the service offers free e-mail assistance if you still can't find what you are looking for, after visiting the site. Simply click on the Free Help button at the top of the home page to get help.
Government Search Engines
FirstGov
http://www.firstgov.gov/
Provides searchable access to information from the US government plus US state and local governments. Information can also be browsed by category.
Google US Government Search
http://www.google.com/unclesam
Special edition of the Google search engine that limits results to pages from US government web sites.
SearchGov.com
http://www.searchgov.com/
Search engine that crawls US government and state government web sites.
usgovsearch
http://usgovsearch.northernlight.com/
Searches across US government web sites and information from the NTIS (National Technical Information Service).
Government Information on the Internet
http://www.notess.com/write/gioti/
Not a search engine but a well-respected book about finding government information online.
Financial Search Engines - Newsgroup Search Engines - Mailing Lists Search Engines
Financial Search Engines
DailyStocks.com
http://www.dailystocks.com/
TradingDay.com
http://tradingday.com/
Inomics
http://www.inomics.com/cgi/show
This service is designed for economists .
WhisperNumber.com
http://www.whispernumber.com/
This site gives you the unofficial forecast of company earnings.
MoneyWeb Financial Search Directory
http://www.moneywebsearch.com/
Directory of sites relating to business, finance and money.
FMLX
http://www.fmlx.com/
Aggregates links about companies, stock information, analysis and research.
News Group Search Engines
Deja.com
http://groups.google.com/
Formerly Deja News, the site underwent a major facelift in May 1999 and added new features. However, usenet / newsgroup searching still remains available.
Forum One
http://www.forumone.com/
Allows you to search over 300,000 web-based discussion forums.
Arianna Usenet
http://usenet.iol.it/
Usenet search engine that allows searching, browsing, posting and decoding of articles which are in Italian newsgroups.
Mailing List Search Engines
Liszt
http://www.liszt.com/
Long a favorite for those looking for mailing lists.
E-Zine List
http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/
Long running list of mailing lists maintained by John Labovitz. Unfortunately, it is not searchable.
Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists (PAML)
http://paml.net/
A long-time and well-known place to find mailing lists.
Medical Search Engines & Other Important Global Search Engines
MedHunt
http://www.hon.ch/MedHunt/
MedHunt uses both humans and web crawling to build its index of medical information.
Biocrawler
http://www.biologie.de/
German Directory and search engine for biological information.
Medical World Search
http://www.mwsearch.com/ /
Offers select group of medical sites, in order to keep results tightly focused.
CiteLine.com
http://www.citeline.com/C1SE/search
Provides a focused medical search. It uses a pre-screened index of medical sites.
Univers Santé
http://www.generique.net/pages/
Directory covering health and medicine aimed at medical professionals.
Echidna Medical Search
http://www.drsref.com.au/search/
Searches through Australian medical websites.
Galenicom
http://www.galenicom.com/
Search engine in Spanish of medical resources on the net.
Medisearch
http://www.medisearch.co.uk/
UK medical Search Engine.
Science Search Engines & Search Engine Submission
Biocrawler
http://www.biologie.de/
German Directory and search engine for biological information.
Chemie.DE
http://www.chemie.de/
Directory and search engine for information about chemistry.
Scirus
http://www.scirus.com/
Scirus combines a targeted crawler from FAST that focuses only on web sites with scientific content.
Search4Science
http://www.search4science.com/
Search4Science is a search engine put together by scientists for scientists.
Biolinks
http://www.biolinks.com/
A search engine for scientists. It spiders the web and has human-categorized results.
SciSeek
http://www.sciseek.com/
SciSeek is a focused scientific area.
iCivil Engineer
http://www.icivilengineer.com/
Internet resources of civil engineering technology; covering all disciplines: architectural, construction, environmental, geotechnical hydraulic, structural, surveying and transportation
MathRix
http://mathrix.virtualave.net/
MathRix is a directory of web sites in French and about mathematics.
PSI - Polymer Search on the Internet
http://www.polymer-search.com/
Search engine for the global polymer, plastic and rubber industries. Includes daily industry news.
SStreams
http://www.sstreams.com/
A directory of technical computing oriented links. Top categories are high-level programming languages like MATLAB, LabVIEW, Mathematica, and others.
Shopping Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Yahoo Shopping
http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Excite Holiday Shoppe
http://www.excite.com/holiday_shoppe/
Excite Consumer Guide Information
http://www.excite.com/shopping/consumer_guide/
Buyer's Index
http://www.buyersindex.com/
Catalog City
http://www.catalogcity.com/
BizRate
http://www.bizrate.com/
BottomDollar.com
http://www.bottomdollar.com/
Comparison shop for a wide-range of products.
Catalog City
http://www.catalogcity.com/
Order free catalogs or shop online.
Compare.Net
http://www.compare.net/
search for various products.
mySimon
http://www.mysimon.com/
comparison shopping sites on the Web, featuring over 1,500 merchants organized into categories.
ShopFind
http://www.shopfind.com/
Offering secure, online ordering are accepted.
ShopGuide
http://www.shopguide.com/
Links to all types of shopping sites online. Search or browse listings.
ShopNow
http://www.shopnow.com/
Directory of shopping web sites, with comparison shopping feature.
PriceScan
http://www.pricescan.com/
Comparison shop in different categories such as books, electronics and sporting goods.
ShopsOnTheNet
http://www.shopsonthenet.com/shops/
Lists thousands of shopping web sites in the United Kingdom , the United States and around the world. Search by product or for particular stores.
DealPilot.com
http://www.dealpilot.com/
Comparison shop for books, music or movies.
AddAll
http://www.addall.com/
Comparison shop for books across 40 stores from one place.
PriceGrabber.com
http://www.pricegrabber.com/?ut=410d28354e6fc853
Comparison shopping search engine with "BottomLinePricing" feature that reflects product price plus extra costs such as shipping and sales tax.
RoboShopper
http://roboshopper.com/
You can search for products within categories, then you are shown matching results from selected merchants.
Specialoffers.com
http://www.specialoffers.com/
Find special offers, freebies and free trials available online.
ValueFind
http://www.valuefind.com/
Shopping search engine for buyers and sellers.
Wine shopping agent
http://wine-searcher.com/
Find wines and compare prices .
BizRate
http://www.bizrate.com/
BizRate offers 60 gold certified merchants. The company also performs reviews of its 400 silver certified merchants.
Shopgenie
http://uk.kelkoo.com/
Comparison shopping site and agent for the United Kingdom
The Public Eye
http://www.thepubliceye.com/
Collects customer satisfaction reports from shoppers that purchase from over 3,500 Public Eye Platinum certified merchants. Public Eye also uses undercover shoppers to test the reliability of some 500 Gold certified merchants.
WAP Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
WAP, or Wireless Application Protocol
FAST Mobile Search
http://mobile.alltheweb.com/
For mobile web devices can be searched in this crawler-based index, powered by FAST Search. You can narrow searches to locate just HDML, WAP (WML), i-mode or PDA formats.
WAPLY
http://www.waply.com/
Extensive directory of WAP web pages and WAP-related information.
Somewherenear.com
http://somewherenear.com/
If you have a WAP phone, there's a special version that's perfect for locating businesses while on the move. Locations are limited to Great Britain , for the moment.
2thumbsWAP.com
http://www.2thumbswap.com/
Directory of WAP web sites and sites related to the wireless web.
WapWarp
http://wapwarp.com/
WapWarp is a directory for WAP pages and web sites, for use with both WAP and HTML browsers.
Palowireless.com Wireless Resource Center
http://www.palowireless.com/
Search engine and directory for wireless professionals. Covers Bluetooth, WAP, i-mode, HomeRF, HiperLAN, IEEE 802.11, SMS, 3G and other wireless technologies.
BWasp
http://bwasp.com/
Belgian WAP directory, with both HTML & WML interfaces.
Web Development & Marketing Search Engines
AssociatePrograms.com
http://www.associateprograms.com/
A directory affiliate, associate, referral programs. Search by category, A-Z or via keywords.
Netscape TechSearch
http://home.netscape.com/computing/techsearch/
Search through technical web sites and newsgroups of interest to developers or browse sites by category.
Refer-It
http://www.refer-it.com/main.cfm
A directory of affiliate and referral programs.
Revenue Avenue
http://www.bcentral.com/products/ra/default.asp
A directory of merchants and with affiliate programs can also add themselves to the directory. Backed by LinkExchange.
SearchZ
http://search.internet.com/
Search or browse through this directory of sites relating online advertising, marketing and promotion.
AdBase.Net
http://www.adbase.net/
Find places to run ads on web sites, in email, in print or on radio -- or list your property and gain advertisers.
Free Graphics Store
http://ausmall.com.au/freegraf/resources/
Directory of web graphics sites and related webmaster resources (Java, JavaScript, CGI etc). All listings are either freeware, shareware or trialware.
Webmasters Directory
http://webmastersdirectory.com/
A searchable directory of webmaster and web marketer resources and tools.
Affiliate Programs Directory
http://www.moneyprograms.com/
Directory of affiliate, referral, revenue sharing and associate programs.
ACS Studio
http://web-surf.virtualave.net/
Directory of resources for webmasters, especially relating to promotion.
Clickpartner.co.uk
http://www.clickpartner.com/eu/
Directory of affiliate programmes in the United Kingdom .
Other Important Global Search Engines
FlipDog
http://www.flipdog.com/
Uses crawling technology to locate job postings from across the web
Search.com
http://www.search.com/
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by Cnet. It offers both web-wide search and a wide variety of specialty search options..
AmeriStat
http://www.ameristat.org/
Looking for US population data? This new research portal provides data about children, fertility, marriage and much more.
Artcyclopedia
http://artcyclopedia.com/
An index of hundreds of museum sites and image archives. Visitors can search for where the works of over 5,500 different artists can be viewed online.
BookSearchEngine
http://www.booksearchengine.com/
Search for web sites related to books and authors.
ClassMates.com
http://www.classmates.com/p.tf/registration/
Discover old high school friends through this site, which has listings for high schools in the United States and Canada .
FlightSearch
http://www.flightsearch.com/
Directory covering various topics relating to aviation.
Redline-Search.com
http://redline-search.com/
Directory of automotive web sites.
SportSearch
http://www.sportsearch.com/
Directory of sports web sites.
When.com
http://www.when.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+Login
An events directory and personal calendar web site.
BuildingOnline
http://www.buildingonline.com/
Search engine that has index over 200,000 web pages related to residential building and home improvement industries. .
Buffy the Vampire Slayer Search Engine
http://www.buffysearch.com/
Provides links to sites about Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
CI Resource Index
http://www.bidigital.com/ci/
Lists sites for finding competitive intelligence (CI) resources on the Web.
Celebhoo.com
http://www.celebhoo.com/
Directory to official and unofficial celebrity fan pages.
Science Fiction Crowsnest
http://www.computercrowsnest.com/
Search through this site's own directory for science fiction & fantasy web sites, or perform a broader search for SF and Fantasy sites using the Open Directory.
Searchgate
http://www.searchgate.co.uk/
Searchable educational resource for study information, courses, recreation, jobs and careers. Especially aimed at the United Kingdom , but not exclusively UK in content.
WWWomen.com
http://wwwomen.com/
A search directory exclusively focused on topics of interest to women.
Oneworld.net
http://www.oneworld.net/
Portal site with search engine focused on human rights, environment and sustainable development.
Mikesart Home Decor Search
http://www.mikesart.com/
Directory of home decorating and related sites.
Museumstuff.com
http://museumstuff.com/
Guide to museum web sites and museum related info around the world.
b2bexcite
http://b2bexcite.com/
A search directory geared exclusively to business to business (B2B) web sites
Major Metacrawler & All in one Search Engines
Metacrawler
Unlike search engines, metacrawlers don't crawl the web themselves to build listings. Instead, they allow searches to be sent to several search engines all at once.
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/
Popular customizable list of search engines, directories and specialty search sites
Ixquick
http://www.ixquick.com/
Meta search engine that ranks results based .
Search.com
http://www.search.com/
Search.com is a meta search engine operated by Cnet.
Vivisimo
http://vivisimo.com/
Search from major search engines easy to use.
qbSearch
http://www.qbsearch.com/
Listings from major search engines.
InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com/
InfoGrid provides direct links to major search sites .
SurfWax.com
http://www.surfwax.com/
Searches the major search engines.
TeRespondo
http://sl.terespondo.com/
Spanish metacrawler.
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com/
Sends search requests to major search services.
All in one Search
SearchBug.com
http://www.searchbug.com/Default.asp
Tracking, as well as covering the major search engines.
Skworm
http://www.skworm.com/
Guide to search engines.
The Big Hub
http://www.thebighub.com/
Search a huge number of specialty sites.
Proteus
http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html
It also has links to search engine help pages.
OneSeek
http://www.oneseek.com/
Allows you to view results from individual search engines.
Alphasearch
http://www.alphasearch.org/
Clean, easy to use all-in-one search page.
Crawl-It-All
http://www.crawl-it-all.com/
Search from in various categories.
One Page MultiSearch Engines
http://www.bjorgul.com/
Query major services from one page.
Prime Search
http://www.primecomputing.com/search.htm
It makes it easy to go between different search engines.
PureSearch
http://www.puresearch.com/
Meta search engines or specialty services.
Search Spaniel
http://www.searchspaniel.com/
Search engine appear on their own page .
SearchFocuser
http://www.searchfocuser.com/
Supportf three major search engines to retrieve pages
Metacrawler Search Engines & Engine Optimization
Metacrawler
ByteSearch
http://www.bytesearch.com/
Choose topics to search within.
Debriefing
http://www.debriefing.com/
A metasearch tool with both English and French interfaces.
WebInfoSearch
http://www.webinfosearch.com/
Sends your search to an extremely large list of search engines.
1Blink
http://www.1blink.com/
Metasearch on major search engines, as well as newsgroups and newswires.
Chubba
http://chubba.whatuseek.com/
Search into one large list and remove duplicates.
Query Server
http://www.queryserver.com/web.htm
Meta search service groups results by concept.
Supercrawler.com
http://www.supercrawler.com/
Searches the major search engines, removes duplicate results.
C4
http://www.c4.com/
C4 allows meta searching against several major search engines.
SearchBuddy
http://www.searchbuddy.com/
Java-based meta search site.
Black Widow
http://www.widow.com/crawl/metasearch.cgi
Multiple results from the same sites.
CuteDoggy
http://www.cutedoggy.com/
The Web Doggy Style
Family Friendly Search
http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com/
Queries major kid-friendly search engines.
InfoZoid
http://www.infozoid.com/
Query the major search engines.
MetaEureka
http://www.metaeureka.com/
Provides up to 100 results per search.
One2seek
http://one2seek.com/
Fast meta search results
Search Caddy
http://www.searchcaddy.com/
Meta search for news and stock information.
Search Runner
http://www.searchrunner.com/
Meta search including web sites, books, auctions, MP3s, stock quotes and news.
SearchWiz
http://www.searchwiz.com/
Fast results from major search engines.
Seek123.com
http://www.seek123.com/
Meta search engine .
SherlockHound
http://www.sherlockhound.com/
Combines results pages from major search engines into one single page.
Kids Search Engines - Family Search Engines - Filtered Search Engines
Kids Search Engines
AOL NetFind Kids Only
http://webcenter.search.aol.com/kids/
Ask Jeeves For Kids
http://www.ajkids.com/
Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com/
Yahoo for kids, designed for ages 7 to 12.
KidsClick!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
KidsClick lists about 5,000 web sites in various categories.
Filtered Search Engines
AltaVista Family Filter
http://www.altavista.com/
AltaVista Family Filter is designed to protect children.
Ah-ha.com
http://www.ah-ha.com/
Kid-safe service powered by FAST Search.
CleanSearch.com
http://www.cleansearch.com/clean-search-index.html
Inktomi-powered search engine that attempts to filter out adult content.
Parent Search Engines
ABC's of Parenting
http://www.abcparenting.com/
Family issues and more.
The Labor of Love
http://www.thelaboroflove.com/websearch/links/
Parenting and Pregnancy directory.
Diverse Family Search Engines
KidsClick Worlds of Web Searching
http://www.worldsofsearching.org/
For children 8 through 12 the basics of searching the web.
Kids Search Tools
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.
TekMom's Search Tools for Students
http://www.tekmom.com/search/
Zeek Search
http://www.zeeks.com/search/ZeekSearch.asp
Search kid-oriented sites.
Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/ /
For teachers, students and parents. Information can be found by browsing or searching.
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/
Over 115,000 sites of interest to educators.
FactMonster Kids' Almanac
http://www.factmonster.com/
Oriented around the needs of children.
StudyWEB
http://info.studyweb.com/
Looking for an academic or research site?
CyberSleuth Kids
http://cybersleuth-kids.com/
Educational directory.
DizzyDuckling
http://www.dizzyduckling.com/
Designed for children, as are the animated topic helpers.
Family Friendly Search
http://www.familyfriendlysearch.com/
Meta search service that queries major kid-friendly search engines.
KidsNook.com
http://www.kidsnook.com/
Directory of web sites, designed for kids ages 7 to 14.
Linkopedia Kidzone
http://www.linkopedia.com/kids.html
Rated and reviewed sites for children aged 2 to 10.
Teach-nology.com
http://www.teach-nology.com/
Directory of web sites for teachers and educators
Multimedia Search Engines - MP3 Engines
Multimedia Search Engines
AltaVista Photo Finder
http://www.altavista.com/sites/search/simage
Lets you find photos, images, audio and video clips from all over the web.
FAST Multimedia Search
http://multimedia.alltheweb.com/
Powered by FAST Search. You can also narrow searches to particular formats, such as JPEG, GIF, BMP, MIDI , MP3, Wave, AVI, MPEG and QuickTime.
Ditto
http://www.ditto.com/
Matches are displayed in thumbnail format. Formerly known as Arriba Vista.
Lycos Pictures and Sounds
http://multimedia.lycos.com/
The Lycos multimedia search service.
Scour.Net
http://scour.net/
A multimedia search engine including MP3 files.
StreamSearch.com
http://www.streamsearch.com/musichome.asp
Directory of multimedia resources on the web.
SpeechBot
http://speechbot.research.compaq.com/
Audio files of popular US radio programs.
MIDI Explorer
http://www.musicrobot.com/
Allows you to search for MIDI files.
MP3 Search Engines
Napster
http://www.napster.com/
Gnutella
http://gnutella.wego.com/go/wego.index
Allows you to locate MP3 files.
Lycos Music / MP3 Search
http://music.lycos.com/downloads/
You can search for MP3 files from across the web here.
MP3.com
http://www.mp3.com/
All things about MP3, including thousands of legal MP3 files.
AudioGalaxy
http://www.audiogalaxy.com/
Displays site speed and reliability information for each match.
Oth.net
http://oth.net/
Coverage of many files.
Audiofind
http://www.audiofind.com/
Search for MP3 files.
Arianna MP3
http://mp3sonica.iol.it/
Italian MP3 search engine
Getsongs - MP3 Search Engines
http://jump.to/getsongs/
Query multiple MP3 search engines from one place.
AudioPhilez
http://www.audiophilez.com/
Song listed in search results.
Manic Music
http://www.m-music.net/
MP3 search engines.
Eisbaer.org
http://www.eisbaer.org/
Dutch-based MP3 search engine.
Soundcrawler
http://www.soundcrawler.com/intro.htm
Africa Search Engines & African Engines
WoYaa
http://www.woyaa.com/
A directory of African web sites, in English and French.
Zebra
http://www.zebra.co.za/
Search in South Africa , Swaziland , Lesotho , Namibia , Botswana , Zimbabwe , Mozambique , Angola , Zambia and Malawi .
Ananzi South Africa
http://www.ananzi.co.za/
South African web sites. There is also a browsable directory.
Aardvark : Search
http://www.aardvark.co.za/
Search engine and directory of African web sites.
ClickAfrique
http://www.clickafrique.com/
Directory of African related Internet resources. It focuses on Internet resources from Africa and resources of specific interest to Africans.
Mail and Guardian Jump Start
http://www.mg.co.za/mg/jump/jump.html
Directory of South Africa web sites.
Marweb
http://www.marweb.net/
Directory of Morocco web sites.
Max
http://www.max.co.za/
Directory of South African web sites.
Siftthru.com
http://www.siftthru.com/
Directory to African web sites and resources.
Internext Gateway to South Africa
http://www.internext.co.za/
Directory of South African web sites.
Jump
http://www.jump.co.za/ /
Directory of South African web sites.
Latin American Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Latin American Search Engines
StarMedia
http://www.starmedia.com/
Starmedia is popular site for Latin Americans. It features search capabilities powered by the Inktomi search engine.
Olé
http://www.terra.es/
Directory of Spanish-language web sites, with the ability to search the entire web using AltaVista. There are regional editions for Argentina , Chile , Colombia , Peru , Uruguay , Venezuela and Spain .
Yahoo en Español
http://espanol.yahoo.com/
Spanish-language edition of Yahoo. The service lists sites from 20 Spanish-speaking countries, as well as news, business, sports and entertainment information.
QuePasa
http://www.quepasa.com/
Customizable portal site aimed at Hispanics and Latinos in the US . Offers Inktomi-powered searching of the web or the ability to browse sites by category.
Radar UOL ( Brazil )
http://radaruol.uol.com.br/
This Inktomi-powered service lets you search Brazilian sites or the entire world. You can also browse a directory of Brazilian web sites.
TeRespondo
http://sl.terespondo.com/
Spanish metacrawler that searches on the more popular search engines.
Argentina.wwwDirectory.net
http://argentina.wwwdirectory.net/
Directory devoted to all things Argentina .
Brazil.wwwDirectory.net
http://brazil.wwwdirectory.net/ /
Directory of Brazil-related web sites.
Buscaniguas
http://www.buscaniguas.com.sv/
Salvadorean search engine.
Mexico Web
http://www.mexicoweb.com.mx/
Directorio de paginas web en Mexico .
MexicoGlobal
http://www.mexicoglobal.com/
Directory of Mexican web sites.
Odisea
http://www.xolo.com.ni/
Searchable directory of web sites related to Nicaragua .
Radix
http://www.radix.ig.com.br/busca/Index
Search engine and directory of Brazilian web sites. Additional features include MP3, image and news search.
TodoBR
http://www.todobr.com.br/
Search engine for Brazil , covering pages in the .br domain.
Dobleu.com
http://www.dobleu.com/
Directory of sites for Latin America and the Spanish-speaking world.
Asian Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Asian - Wide Search Engines
AltaVista Asia
http://altavista.skali.com.my/
AltaVista mirror site based in Malaysia .
Asiaco
http://www.asiaco.com/
Directory listings for over 30 Asian countries, plus a meta search feature.
Yahoo Asia
http://asia.yahoo.com/
Asian edition of Yahoo. It searches all of Yahoo, by default.
Asiadragons
http://www.asiadragons.com/
Directory of web sites focusing on 14 Asian countries including China, Japan, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Australia.
HyeGuide.com
http://www.hyeguide.com/
Armenian directory of web sites.
AsiaKeys
http://www.asiakeys.com/
Directory of Asian web sites.
China Search Engines
Yahoo Chinese
http://chinese.yahoo.com/
Chinese-language edition of Yahoo for China and Taiwan .
Asiaco China
http://china.asiaco.com/
Directory of Chinese web sites.
Asiaco Hong Kong
http://hongkong.asiaco.com/
Directory to Hong Kong web sites.
Indian Search Engines
SAIR Search
http://www.samilan.com/
SAIR (South Asian Internet Resources) is a search engine for India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Nepal and Bangladesh .
Jadoo
http://www.hindustan.net/
A major directory of India web sites.
Locate India
http://www.locateindia.com/
A search engine for information on the Indian economy and Indian business.
Asiaco India
http://india.asiaco.com/
Directory of Indian web sites.
Indian Index
http://www.indianindex.com/
Directory of Indian web sites.
Indiatimes.com
http://www.indiatimes.com/
Portal site focused on India .
Indya.com
http://www.indya.com/
India-specific directory search combined with Google web search results.
Rediff
http://rediff.com/
Guide to Indian web sites.
IndiaMART
http://www.indiamart.com/
Search Over a database of over 60,000 indian companies
Japan Search Engines
SearchDesk
http://www.searchdesk.com/
Search Engine Watch of Japan.
Goo
http://www.goo.ne.jp/
Inktomi-powered search engine serving Japan .
Lycos Japan
http://www.lycos.co.jp/
Lycos performs a special crawl of Japanese sites to power this service.
Yahoo Japan
http://www.yahoo.co.jp/
Asiaco Japan
http://japan.asiaco.com/
Directory of Japanes web sites.
Malaysia Search Engines
Malaysia Directory
http://www.cari.com.my/
New Malaysia
http://www.newmalaysia.com/
Directory listings plus a meta search feature
Asiaco Malaysia
http://malaysia.asiaco.com/
Directory of Malaysia web sites.
Saja Search
http://www.sajasearch.com/
A Malaysian directory and search engine.
Philippines Search Engines
Asiaco Philippines
http://philippines.asiaco.com/
Directory to Philippine web sites.
Owey.Com
http://www.owey.com/
Directory of Philippine web sites or sites of interest to Filipino Americans.
rpdir.net
http://rpdir.net/
Directory of Philippine web sites.
Other Asian Countries
SAIR Search
http://www.samilan.com/
SAIR (South Asian Internet Resources) is a search engine for India , Pakistan , Sri Lanka , Nepal and Bangladesh .
TechnoFind
http://www.technofind.com.sg/
Lists Singapore-based and Singapore-related web sites.
Yahoo Korea
http://kr.yahoo.com/
ExploreNepal
http://www.explorenepal.com/
Directory of Nepal web sites.
Gorgai Thailand
http://www.gorgai.com/
Directory of Thai web sites and sites relating to Thailand .
Australian Search Engines - New Zealand Search Engines & Search Engine
Anzwers
http://www.anzwers.com.au/
Australian and New Zealand web sites. Search engine results are powered by Inktomi.
Excite Australia
http://www.excite.com.au/
Excite Australia also serves New Zealand .
GOeureka
http://www.goeureka.com.au/standard.php
Provides AltaVista-powered crawler results and a LookSmart Australia-powered directory. Formerly AltaVista Australia .
LookSmart Australia
http://www.looksmart.com.au/
LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites that covers just Australia .
WebWombat
http://www.webwombat.com.au/
Search engine within the .au ( Australia ) and .nz ( New Zealand ) domains.
Matilda
http://www.aaa.com.au/
Matilda lists sites within Australia .
OzSearch
http://www.ozsearch.com.au/
Directory of Australian web sites.
Yahoo Australia & New Zealand
http://au.yahoo.com/
Access New Zealand
http://accessnz.co.nz/
Directory of New Zealand web sites.
Cowleys
http://www.cowleys.com.au/
Australian businesses. There is also a separate directory of Australian web sites.
Lookabout
http://www.aussieseek.com/
Lists Australian and New Zealand Sites
Planet Samoa
http://planet-samoa.com/
Web directory for Samoa .
New Zealand Search Engine
http://www.searchnewzealand.co.nz/
Directory of New Zealand web sites.
Yahoue
http://www.yahoue.com/
Directory for New Caledonia / Nouvelle-Calédonie.
West European Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Regional Search Engines - Europe-Wide
EuroSeek
http://www.euroseek.net/
A European-based search engine which nonetheless covers the globe.
Diabolos
http://www.diabolos.com/
European-oriented search engine that also provides global coverage.
Espotting.com
http://www.espotting.com/
Paid placement search engine targeting users in the United Kingdom and Europe .
Godago
http://www.godado.tv/
Paid placement search engine targeting countries in Europe .
Regional Search Engines - Belgium
Belcast
http://www.belcast.be/
Using AltaVista or a special index of Begium-web pages .
Ilse Belgium
http://be.ilse.nl/
Search engine and directory for Belgium .
Lycos Belgique / Lycos België
http://www.be.lycos.de/
WebWatch
http://www.webwatch.be/
A search engine and directory. The search engine crawls only sites in Belgium or relating to the country.
Webbel
http://www.webbel.be/
Large directory of Belgium web sites.
Voila Belgium
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaBe/
Belgian edition of the Voila global search engine.
Regionaal
http://www.regionaal.com/regio/Site/Default.asp
Search engine for the region "De Kempen" in Belgium .
Regional Search Engines - France
Abondance
http://www.abondance.com/
A Search Engine Watch-like site for France and French-speakers.
Ecila
http://www.nomade.tiscali.fr/nomadeter.asp
Said to be France 's first search engine.
Lycos France
http://www.lycos.fr/
Nomade
http://www.nomade.tiscali.fr/
Directory of French web sites. Also provides directory results to Infoseek France .
Voila France
http://www.voila.fr/
French edition and flagship-service of the Voila search engine, which indexes over 100 million pages worldwide.
Yahoo France
http://fr.yahoo.com/
Regional Search Engines - Germany
AltaVista Germany
http://altavista.de/
German edition of AltaVista .
Deutsche Suchmaschinen
http://kresch.com/search/searchde.htm
Lists many German-oriented guides to the web. Site promoters, don't miss the nicely-done comparison table. Hier finden Sie eine Liste mit vielen deutschen bzw. deutschsprachigen Suchmaschinen, mit deutsch sprachigen Seiten.
Klug Suchen
http://www.klug-suchen.de/
A guide to German-oriented search engines and directories.Deutsch Sprachig
SuchFind Spezial
A guide to both German and international search engines, written in German. It also has submission tips for webmasters.
Suchen.com
http://www.suchfind-spezial.de/
A meta search service that taps into German search engines. Mit Suchen.com sparen Sie beim Suchen eine Menge Zeit: Statt auf mehreren Suchmaschinen nach einem Begriff zu suchen, übernimmt die META-Suchmaschine diese Arbeit für Sie. Die Ergebnisse finden Sie sortiert in einem einheitlichen Design.
Fireball
http://www.fireball.de/
A major search service for Germany and German-speakers.
Web.DE
http://web.de/
A large and well-known German portal site.
Yahoo Deutschland
http://de.yahoo.com/
Excite Deutschland
http://www.overture.com/
Lycos Deutschland
http://www.lycos.de/
Bellnet
http://www.bellnet.de/
Directory of German web sites.
Paperball
http://paperball.fireball.de/
Produced by the German Fireball search service, Paperball lets you search for German news.
Intersearch.de
http://www.intersearch.de/
German and Austrian search engine. Offers the unique ability to narrow searches to terms in meta tags.
Voodoo-it - The Real Search Engine
http://www.voodoo-it.de/
Search engine covering Germany , Austria and Switzerland .
Wap It Out!
http://66.33.28.61/html/en/0.html
Directory of WAP sites. Interface is in German, but coverage is global.
Regional Search Engines - Greece
The Greek Explorer And Indexer
http://www.hiway.gr/
Greek domain crawler, while the Indexer is a directory of sites.
Webindex Internet Search - Greece
http://www.webindex.gr/
Search engine that crawls Greek domains, plus an associated directory. It launched in Jan. 1997.
iBoom
http://www.iboom.com/
Directory of Greek and Greek-related web sites.
OneClick
http://www.oneclick.gr/
Meta search engine for Greek web sites.
Regional Search Engines - Ireland
Global Irish
http://www.globalirish.com/
A directory of sites relating to Ireland and Irish culture.
Kompass
http://www.kompass.ie/
Directory of Irish businesses.
Anything Irish
http://www.anything-irish.com/
Directory of Irish businesses.
Doras
http://www.doras.ie/
A directory of Irish related websites.
IndexIreland.com
http://www.indexireland.com/
Directory of Irish web sites and sites related to Ireland .
SearchingIreland.com
http://www.searchingireland.com/
Searchable directory of Irish web sites.
Regional Search Engines - Italy
Arianna
http://arianna.iol.it/
One of the largest directories of Italian web sites.
Virgilio
http://www.virgilio.it/home/index.html
Major directory of Italian web sites.
Yahoo Italia
http://it.yahoo.com/
Diabolos
http://www.diabolos.com/
Italian-interface to the Diabolos European-oriented search engine.
Lycos Italia
http://www.lycos.it/
Voila Italia
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaIt/
Italian edition of the Voila global search engine.
Ragno Italiano
http://ragno.plugit.net/
Arianna MP3
http://mp3sonica.iol.it/
Italian MP3 search engine.
Arianna Usenet
http://usenet.iol.it/
Italian newsgroups.
SuperEva
http://www.supereva.com/
Italian search engine.
Regional Search Engines - Malta
Malta Network Resources
http://www.maltanetworkresources.com/
Directory and search engine for Malta .
Search Malta
http://searchmalta.com/
Regional Search Engines - Netherlands
AltaVista Nederland
http://nl.altavista.com/
Dutch edition of AltaVista that offers the ability to search the Netherlands-only
Lycos Netherlands
http://www.lycos.nl/
QuickLink
http://wwwijzer.nl/
A Dutch search engine and human-compiled directory of web sites.
Track
http://www.track.nl/
A Dutch search engine that crawls only sites within the .nl domain.
Ilse
http://www.ilse.nl/
Search engine and directory for the Netherlands .
Voila Nederlands
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaNl/
Dutch edition of the Voila global search engine.
Zoek
http://www.wanadoo.nl/
Dutch search engine.
Vindex
http://www.vindex.nl/
Search engine that spiders Netherland domains plus selected sites relating to the Netherlands .
NL-menu
http://www.nl-menu.nl/
Dutch Webindex, specially focused on science, research, education, government, arts and culture
Frisyk
http://www.fryskebeweging.nl/frisyk/
Search for sites and pages that are in the Frisian language.
1steKeuze Zoekmachine
http://www.1stekeuze.nl/
Directory of Dutch web sites.
European Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Regional Search Engines - Denmark
Scandanavia Online Denmark
http://www.sol.dk/
Portal site for Denmark .
Yahoo Denmark
http://dk.yahoo.com/
Jubii
http://www.jubii.dk/ /
Search engine and directory of sites for Denmark .
Voila Danmark
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaDk/
Danish edition of the Voila global search engine.
InfoSide.dK
http://www.infoside.dk/index.shtml
Director of Danish and worldwide web sites, with descriptions are in Danish
Leitel
http://www.leitel.fo/cgi_shl/index.cgi
Directory of sites for the Faroe Islands .
Peak.dk
http://www.peak.dk/
Danish directory. Dansk søgemaskine.
Regional Search Engines - Finland
Evreka
http://www.suomi24.fi/
Finnish-edition of the Evreka search engine, which is powered by FAST.
Haku.net
http://haku.suomi24.fi/
Search engine and directory for Finland .
Ihmemaan haku
http://www.fi/
Finnish search engine.
MTV3 Internet
http://altavista.mtv3.fi/
Uses AltaVista to custom crawl Finnish web sites.
Sirkus
http://www.suomi24.fi/
Finnish-portal site backed by Scandinavia Online.
Sonera Plaza Haku
http://search.fi.soneraplaza.net/query
Finnish search engine.
WebInfo
http://www.webinfo.fi/
Directory of Finnish businesses.
Regional Search Engines - Norway
Kvasir
http://soeg.sol.dk/
Norwegian directory and crawler-based search engine, powered by FAST.
Scandanavia Online Norway
http://www.sol.no/
Portal site for Norway .
Yahoo Norway
http://no.yahoo.com/
Lycos Norway
http://nettguide.nettavisen.no/servlets/page?section=905
Regional Search Engines - Sweden
AltaVista Sweden
http://se.altavista.com/
Swedish-edition of AltaVista .
Evreka
http://evreka.passagen.se/
Directory of web sites in Sweden
Yahoo Sverige
http://se.yahoo.com/
Lycos Sverige
http://lycos.spray.se/
Passagen
http://www.passagen.se/
Swedish portal site with web search powered by FAST.
ALLT.com
http://www.allt.com/
Index of swedish sites.
Regional Search Engines - Spain and Portugal
BIWE
http://www.biwe.es/
Directory of Spanish-language web sites, primarily serving Spain .
Lycos Spain
http://www.es.lycos.de/
Olé
http://www.terra.es/
Directory of Spanish-language web sites
Yahoo en Español
http://espanol.yahoo.com/
Spanish-language edition of Yahoo.
Ozú
http://www.ozu.com/
Search engine and directory of Spanish web sites.
Voila Portugal
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaPt/
Portuguese edition of the Voila global search engine.
Voile España
http://www.voila.fr/VoilaEs/
Spanish edition of the Voila global search engine, with an associated directory of web sites.
TeRespondo
http://sl.terespondo.com/
Spanish metacrawler that searches on the more popular search engines.
AEIOU
http://www.aeiou.pt/
Portuguese search engine.
http://www.virtualazores.com/e_procurar.html
Portugal-info
http://portugal-info.com/
Directory of Portuguese web sites.
Regional Search Engines - Switzerland
AltaVista Switzerland
http://av-de.bluewin.ch/
Bluewin
http://av-de.bluewin.ch/
An index of Swiss and Liechtenstein web sites
Search.ch
http://www.search.ch/
Swiss Search crawls all sites in the .ch and .li domains.
Swiss Search
http://www.swisssearch.com/
Inktomi-powered search engine for Switzerland .
Voodoo-it - The Real Search Engine
http://www.voodoo-it.de/
Search engine covering Germany , Austria and Switzerland .
Yoodle
http://www.yoodle.ch/
Directory of Swiss web sites, organised by cantons and by categories.
Search11
http://www.search11.ch/
Suchmaschine der Schweiz
Regional Search Engines - United Kingdom
AltaVista UK
http://uk.altavista.com/
UK-edition of AltaVista
Excite UK
http://www.excite.co.uk/
Excite, for the UK.
Lycos UK
http://www.lycos.co.uk/
SearchUK
http://uk.searchengine.com/
Automatically crawls UK-related domains
UK Plus
http://www.ukplus.co.uk/
UKPlus search UK-relevant sites,
Yahoo UK & Ireland
http://uk.yahoo.com/
Mirago
http://www.mirago.co.uk/
UK search engine which also offers a filtered version for kids.
Espotting.com
http://www.espotting.com/
Paid placement search engine
UK Index
http://www.ukindex.co.uk/
Lists sites based in the UK or that are UK-relevant.
NewsNow
http://www.newsnow.co.uk/
news sources. Especially aimed at UK users.
Somewherenear.com
http://somewherenear.com/
Limited to Great Britain , for the moment.
EverydayUK
http://www.everydayuk.co.uk/
Directory of UK web sites.
Searchgate
http://www.searchgate.co.uk/
United Kingdom , but not exclusively UK in content.
Clickpartner.co.uk
http://www.clickpartner.com/eu/
Directory of affiliate programmes in the United Kingdom .
Medisearch
http://www.medisearch.co.uk/
UK medical Search Engine.
Shopgenie
http://uk.kelkoo.com/
Comparison shopping site and agent for the United Kingdom
Splut
http://www.splut.com/
Directory of UK websites, supported through paid links.
East European Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Regional Search Engines - Poland
AltaVista Poland
http://www.altavista.pl/
Polish version of AltaVista search engine.
Polish Infoseek
http://szukacz.icm.edu.pl/
Polish search engine .
Wirtualna Polska
http://www.wp.pl/
Directory of Polish web sites.
Poland.com
http://english.poland.com/
Polish search engine, operating since 1996.
Regional Search Engines - Russia
Russian Search Engines
http://www.zhurnal.ru/
Pointers to Russian guides to the web.
Aport
http://www.aport.ru/
Directory of Russian web sites with portal features. Also in English.
Ex-USSR Search Engines
http://www.zodchiy.ru/
Information about search engines, directories and link-pages for former USSR countries.
RUCITY.COM
http://www.rucity.com/
Lists ex-USSR and related sites.
Weblist
http://weblist.ru/index.html
Directory of Russian web sites.
Regional Search Engines - Yugoslavia
Beocity
http://www.beocity.com/
Yugoslavian portal with a directory of web sites.
YuSearch
http://www.yusearch.com/
A directory and search engine for the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia .
Regional Search Engines -Other European Countries
NETI
http://www.neti.ee/
Estonian search engine and directory
Croatian Internet Directory
http://www.iskon.hr/
Directory of Croatian web sites.
START Romania
http://www.start.ro/search/index.tpl
Directory of Romanian web sites.
SuperZoznam.sk
http://szm.sk/
Search engine and directory of Slovak web sites.
Cypria.com
http://www.cypria.com/
Guide to Cyprus and Cypriot web sites.
Romande.com
http://www.romandie.com/
Index-web de Suisse romande avec son moteur de recherches.
Middle East Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Regional Search Engines - Middle East
Arabist
http://www.arabist.com/
A guide to Middle East-related Web sites
Middle East Internet Pages
http://www.middle-east-pages.com/
A Yahoo-like directory to sites in the Middle East . A related site, United Arab Emirates Internet Pages, covers just the UAE.
AME Info - Middle East Business Information
http://www.ameinfo.com/
Covers more than 200,000 companies from 13 Middle East countries.
ArabBay.com
http://www.arabbay.com/
Directory for the Arab world.
HyeGuide.com
http://www.hyeguide.com/
Armenian directory of web sites.
Iran Index
http://www.iranindex.com/
Iranian search engine
Libanis
http://www.libanis.com/
Directory of web sites for Lebanon
SearchIR.com
http://searchir.com/
Directory of Iranian web sites and sites related to Iran.
Syria Gate
http://www.syriagate.com/
Directory of Syrian web sites.
Regional Search Engines - Israel
Achla
http://www.tapuz.co.il/index/index_achla.htm
Maven
http://www.maven.co.il/
Directory of Jewish-related web sites with a category for Israel .
Tapuz
http://www.tapuz.co.il/
Walla
http://www.walla.co.il/
Internet Zahav
http://zahav.msn.co.il/homepage.asp
Nana Porta
lhttp://www.nana.co.il/
Directory of web sites, presented in Hebrew, English, Arabic and Russian.
Canadian Search Engines & Search Engine Optimization
Canadian Search Engines
AOL Search Canada
http://search.aol.ca/
This Canadian version of AOL Search uses the Open Directory's human-categorized results and crawler-based results from Inktomi. Information is filtered so that Canadian-specific sites should come first, in response to searches.
AltaVista Canada
http://ca.altavista.com/
This service provides access to a crawler-compiled index of millions of Canadian-specific web pages.
LookSmart Canada
http://canada.looksmart.com/
English-Canadian edition of LookSmart. Directory content is also used by Canadian portals such MSN Canada.
MSN Search Canada
http://search.msn.ca/ /
Canadian-version of MSN Search .
Yahoo Canada
http://ca.yahoo.com/
Canadian edition of Yahoo. .
Excite Canada
http://www.excite.ca/
Canadian-edition of the Excite search engine.
Canadian Links
http://www.canadian-links.com/
Features both a directory of Canadian web sites and a crawler-based index of Canadian web pages.
RetailCanada.com
http://www.retailcanada.com/
Canadian retailers are grouped by province, then by product or service category.
AltaVista Canada - Canadian News Index
http://ca.altavista.com/
The Canadian News Index gathers information from over 300 Canadian news sources daily.
La Toile du Québec
http://www.toile.qc.ca/
Search through a directory of Quebec web sites or across the entire web, with results powered by Google.
NetGet
http://www.netget.ca/
Provides access to Canadian information from the Open Directory, as well as a meta search of major Canadian search engines.
The Canadian, Eh
http://www.canadianeh.com/cdneh/index.asp
Directory of Canadian web sites, said to be family safe.
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