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07-20-2007, 12:51 PM
ALTAVISTA :
AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers.AltaVista opened in December 1995. It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased Digital in 1998), then spun off into a separate company which is now controlled by CMGI Receives search results from dmoz directory and overture search engine.
ASK JEEVES :
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question. If it fails to find a match within its own database, then it will provide matching web pages from various search engines.Receives search results from google and teoma search engines.
AOL :
The main listings for categories and web sites come from the Open Directory. Before the launch of AOL Search in October 1999, the AOL search service was Excite-powered AOL NetFind. Recieves search results from google search engine and dmoz directory.
EXCITE :
Excite is one of the popular search services on the web. It offers a medium-sized index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when appropriate. Excite was launched in late 1995. It grew quickly in prominence and consumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, and WebCrawler in November 1996. These continue to run as separate services.
FAST :
Formerly called All The Web, FAST Search aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. FAST Search launched in May 1999. Supplies search results for alltheweb search engine and lycos search enigne.
INFOSEEK.COM :
Go is a portal site produced by Infoseek and Disney. It offers portal features such as personalization and free e-mail, plus the search capabilities of the former Infoseek search service, which has now been folded into Go. Searchers will find that Go consistently provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches, thanks to its ESP search algorithm. It also has an impressive human-compiled directory of web sites. Go officially launched in January 1999. It is not related to GoTo, below. The former Infoseek service launched in early 1995.
GOOGLE :
Google is a now the largest search engine in the web, They are the leading provider of results and a recent stats they serve 85% search results, They make heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Google also has a huge index of the web and provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Supplies search results for lycos, hotbot, aol, askjeeves, teoma, netscape, iwon and yahoo search engines. It receives search results from dmoz directory.
HOTBOT :
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AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web, in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers.AltaVista opened in December 1995. It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq (which purchased Digital in 1998), then spun off into a separate company which is now controlled by CMGI Receives search results from dmoz directory and overture search engine.
ASK JEEVES :
Ask Jeeves is a human-powered search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question. If it fails to find a match within its own database, then it will provide matching web pages from various search engines.Receives search results from google and teoma search engines.
AOL :
The main listings for categories and web sites come from the Open Directory. Before the launch of AOL Search in October 1999, the AOL search service was Excite-powered AOL NetFind. Recieves search results from google search engine and dmoz directory.
EXCITE :
Excite is one of the popular search services on the web. It offers a medium-sized index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when appropriate. Excite was launched in late 1995. It grew quickly in prominence and consumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, and WebCrawler in November 1996. These continue to run as separate services.
FAST :
Formerly called All The Web, FAST Search aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of the largest indexes of the web. FAST Search launched in May 1999. Supplies search results for alltheweb search engine and lycos search enigne.
INFOSEEK.COM :
Go is a portal site produced by Infoseek and Disney. It offers portal features such as personalization and free e-mail, plus the search capabilities of the former Infoseek search service, which has now been folded into Go. Searchers will find that Go consistently provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches, thanks to its ESP search algorithm. It also has an impressive human-compiled directory of web sites. Go officially launched in January 1999. It is not related to GoTo, below. The former Infoseek service launched in early 1995.
GOOGLE :
Google is a now the largest search engine in the web, They are the leading provider of results and a recent stats they serve 85% search results, They make heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Google also has a huge index of the web and provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Supplies search results for lycos, hotbot, aol, askjeeves, teoma, netscape, iwon and yahoo search engines. It receives search results from dmoz directory.
HOTBOT :
Read more in my blogs