Knowledge: search engines
See Also:
- computers → internet → web design and development → hosted components and services → site search
- computers → software → internet → servers → search
Links
- Wotbox
http://www.wotbox.com/ - 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.
- Scrub The Web
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ - Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
- Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017778969.php - 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.
- SearchHippo
http://www.searchhippo.com/ - Indexes 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.
- Amfibi
http://www.amfibi.com/ - 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.
- Gigablast
http://www.gigablast.com/ - 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.
- The Evolution of Web Searching
http://www.davidgreen.me.uk/oirapr00.html - David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.
- Objects Search
http://www.objectssearch.com/ - 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.
- Entireweb
http://www.entireweb.com/ - The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
- Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=1&subcategory_id=24&article_id=33 - 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.
- Mojeek
http://www.mojeek.com/ - Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising. Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal search index.
- NPR : The Search Engine Wars
http://www.npr.org/programs/morning/features/2004/apr/google/ - In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines.
- Ulysseek
http://www.ulysseek.com/ - A straightforward search engine with a simple interface.
- FactBites.com
http://www.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.
- ThreeMice
http://www.threemice.com/ - Natural-language answer engine, which queries the internet in real time, and will serve up full text from selected sites.
- ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard
http://www.acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=143 - Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.
- Wikipedia: Search Engine
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine - Article in the online collaborative encyclopedia, describing the history and mechanisms of Web search engines.
- Mozdex
http://www.mozdex.com/ - Uses open source search technologies and an index seeded from the Open Directory.
- Lexxe
http://www.lexxe.com/ - Processes natural language queries and delivers results in clusters by topic. Queries can be keywords, phrases or short questions.
- Search 2.0
http://www.roboburp.com/search-blog/ - Blog dedicated to coverage of the next generation of search engines and new technologies from the original players with tips, tricks, and tutorials on how to search more effectively.
- Topix: Search Engines
http://www.topix.com/rss/business/search-engines.xml - News about search engines, collected from various sources on the web.
- Searchles, Inc
http://www.searchles.com/ - Offers social search features (allowing others' opinions to influence your results) and allows users to tag, group and save links.
- Live Search
http://www.live.com/ - Offers general web search and various verticals, including images, news, classifieds, maps and local. By Microsoft.
- ChaCha
http://www.chacha.com/ - This search engine is a fusion of computer technology and human intelligence. Live human guides are available to provide additional assistance in finding relevant results.
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