Aesop Search The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site. |
All Academic An academic search engine offering access to journals, working papers, convention papers and magazine articles. |
AltaVista The default search results consist of Overture and results from the Altavista spider. Displays related searches. Offers translation services and multimedia searches. |
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. |
Gigablast A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search option including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. |
HotBot Offers a search powered by Inktomi and a directory using the ODP. Configurable options in advanced search mode include language, date, word filters, domain location, image, video and audio search. |
ILor Allows users to create annotated comments on top of search results. Powered by Teoma. Offers a downloadable search toolbar. |
Northern Light A search engine for professional web users. They have a general search engine, and a "Special Collection" of 4M journals/books/mags which are accessable on a pay-per-view basis. |
Openfind Taiwan-developed engine with a huge database. Users can rank results by relevance score, date or size, or search only newly crawled pages. Choice of English and Chinese interface and 22 languages. |
PageSeeker Search engine with an interactive interface. [Requires Flash] |
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity Article form the USC Online Jouralism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. |
SearchHippo A crisp and clean spider based web search with free web services, PHP, XSLT and XML code for integration. |
SearchKing Search engine using searchers input to determine relevancy and placement and has instant indexing. |
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. |
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. |
Yuntis A next-generation search engine being developed as a research project at the Experimental Computer Systems Lab, Computer Science Department, SUNY at Stony Brook. |
Zerx You can view sites related to another site, or refine your existing search using that site. |