IIn this day and age I cannot imagine anyone that has not used
a search engine and Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is done by most web
site designers as a necessary way to get on the top of the list because
most people do not look beyond the first few pages.
and
are the most used and you can find other engines and what they are most
useful for at
Here is a List of
of the most used
Google
The
favorite search engine of most web surfers accounting for the
majority of searches performed on the web.
Yahoo!
The
Yahoo! Search Engine along with the trusted Yahoo! Directory (see
below) were once the darling of the internet. They have now lost most
of their shine.
Baidu
Favorite
search engine of the Chinese.
Bing
Microsoft's
Live Search Engine is now known as Bing with supposedly an improved
algorithm. People have loved it's background images. Check the
Bing usage statistics
Yandex
Russian
Search engine and ranks very high as per Alexa.
Go.com
Go.com
offers a searchable directory, news stocks, sports and free email
along with a web search engine.
Ask
Ask
still has a loyal following though its user base is gradually
decreasing.
Sohu
Another
Chinese search engine.
AOL
The
web search on the AOL pages is now powered by Google.
Technorati
Technorati
prides itself as the search engine for blogs.
Lycos
Powered
by Ask.
AltaVista
The
mighty Altavista Search Engine is now based on Yahoo!
Dogpile
A
metasearch engine owned by InfoSpace, Inc.
Excite
A
metasearch engine which is a part of the Excite web portal.
Infospace
The
owner of Dogpile search engine.
AlltheWeb
Yahoo!'s
technology is now behind the Alltheweb search engine.
Kosmix
A
great search engine that collates information into topic pages.
Cuil
Cuil
organizes web pages based on the information they carry.
DuckDuckGo
DuckDuckGo
takes advantage of content from sites such as Wikipedia to improve the
relevance of the search results.
Mamma
One
of the web's first tier 2 metasearch engines.
Melzoo
Melzoo
is a Meta search engine that gives "visual previews" of the search
results translating into a 'much better user experience' (?). The SERP
is split into two panes; the left has the list of results generated by
the query while the the one on the right shows a snapshot of the page
when one mouse-over the result.
blekko
The
name of this search engine proves that there are not many good domain
names left! Jokes aside, blekko, which is in beta presently, lets you
perform the usual searches as well as those that you cannot do
elsewhere! this is primarily accomplished by using "slash tags", as
blekko calls them. You can slash in and slash out sites (and results).
Check out the
demo video and see how this works.
Yebol
Yebol
is based on a knowlegde-based sematic search platform.
Open Directory Project
Internet's
favorite web directory owned by Netscape (AOL).
AboutUs.org
AboutUs.org
lists web sites with details on the information they carry. It allows
internet users to add and modify entries.
Business.com
Business.com
combines a search engine and a web directory.
Yahoo! Directory
The
web's oldest directory!
Best of the web
A
commercial web directory categorizing web sites by topic and region.
