MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES
Google: http://www.google.com
The crawler-based service provides both comprehensive coverage of the web along with great relevancy.
Yahoo: http://www.yahoo.com
In October 2002, Yahoo made a shift to crawler-based listings for its main results. These came from Google until February 2004.
Michigan
Business Directory - http://www.michiganbusiness.us
Offers free listings to all companies incorporated in the
State of Michigan
Ask Jeeves: http://www.askjeeves.com
Ask Jeeves initially gained fame in 1998 and 1999 as being the "natural language" search engine that let you search by asking questions.
AllTheWeb.com: http://www.alltheweb.com
Powered by Yahoo, you may find AllTheWeb a lighter, more customizable and pleasant "pure search" experience than you get at Yahoo itself.
AOL Search:
http://search.aol.com
AOL Search provides users with editorial listings that come Google's crawler-based index.
HotBot: http://www.hotbot.com
HotBot provides easy access to the web's three major crawler-based search engines: Yahoo, Google and
Teoma.
Teoma: http://www.teoma.com
Teoma is a crawler-based search engine owned by Ask Jeeves. It has a smaller index of the web than its rival crawler-competitors Google and Yahoo.
AltaVista: http://www.altavista.com
AltaVista opened in December 1995 and for several years was the "Google" of its day, in terms of providing relevant results and having a loyal group of users that loved the service.
Gigablast: http://www.gigablast.com
Compared to Google, Yahoo or even Teoma, Gigablast has a tiny index of the web. However, the service is constantly gaining new and interesting features.
LookSmart: http://www.looksmart.com
LookSmart is primarily a human-compiled directory of web sites.
LookSmart bought the WiseNut crawler-based search engine in April 2002.
Lycos: http://www.lycos.com
Lycos is one of the oldest search engines on the web, launched in 1994. It ceased crawling the web for its own listings in April 1999 and instead provides access to human-powered results from LookSmart
MSN Search: http://search.msn.com
MSN is developing its own crawler-based technology and planning other changes that should revitalize the service in later
2005.
Netscape Search:
http://search.netscape.com
Owned by AOL Time Warner, Netscape Search uses Google for its main listings, just as does AOL's other major search site, AOL Search.
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/
The Open Directory uses volunteer editors to catalog the web.
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