Search Engine Page

About Human guides you can email. Acquired by The New York Times 2005 (NYT). $$

All the Web A business of Overture Services now owned by Yahoo.

Alta Vista Another Yahoo company. $$ (around since 1995; first with multilingual search capabilities and translation with Babelfish)

Answers "Not links!" $$

AOL Aolsux (TWX). $$

Ask Jeeves now Ask.com and owned by IAC (IACI). $$$

Big Book Grew out of the real Yellow Pages, BigBook.com, and SuperPages.com. $

Bing New from Microsoft (new home for MSN and Windows Live) $$$

DMOZ Formerly called Newhoo, acquired by Netscape (and then AOL).

Dogpile Infospace Network. $

eHow "Clear Instructions on How To Do (just about) Everything". New2Me

eWoss "The How-To Manual That Anyone Can Write or Edit". New2Me

Excite Currently owned by IAC (IACI). $

Find What All paid search results! Nix

Galaxie (now only classifieds). Nix

Gigablast The Green Search Engine, getting better. $

Google Still privately held, partners include Yahoo and Netscape. $$$$ Many other search pages read.

GoogleWatch Someone has to do it. $$

Hakia A natural language processing (NLP) "semantic" search engine, privately owned. New2Me

Hot Bot Run by Lycos. $

How Stuff Works Discovery Communications (DISCA) $$

InfoPlease (PSO) Pearson Education. $$

Ixquik Known as Startpage in the United States (www.startpage.com). $

Kosmix Explore the Web by topic. New2Me

Leapfish from DotNext New2Me

Library of Congress $$

Librarians' Index to the Internet New2Me.

Live.com Now on Bing

Lycos (TRLY) Terra Lycos Network. $$

Mamma Intasys (MAMA). Nix

Metacrawler Infospace Network. $

MSN Now part of Bing

MyWay (IACI) Owned by IAIC Search and Media (Ask) and looks a lot like Excite. $

Refdesk Bob Drudge (father of Matt). $$

Search CNET. $

Search Engine Colossus By country and subject. $$

Searchability A guide by subject to thousands of search engines. $

Search Systems 1000's of free public record databases that you can pay to see. $

Search Gov With links to Search Edu, Search Books and Search Mil (military). $

Starting Point New2Me

Superpages People, Businesses and City Guides

Vadlo Biomedical and Life Sciences New2Me

Vivisimo see Clusty.

Viewzi from Brandon Cotter $

WWWVirtual Library $

Webcrawler Infospace Network. $$

The free encyclopedia

WikipediA The free encyclopedia. $$$ Wikipedia is hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other projects:

Commons Free media repository

Wikinews Free-content news

Wiktionary Dictionary and thesaurus

Wikiquote Collection of quotations

Wikibooks Free textbooks and manuals

Wikisource Free-content library

Wikispecies Directory of species

Wikiversity Free learning materials and activities

Meta-Wiki Wikimedia project coordination

Wolframalpha A computational knowledge engine that answers questions and equations. $$$

Yahoo (YHOO). $$$

Yelp The Ultimate City Guide

Newsgroups, now run by Google (Groups.google $$$$), is where questions, answers and opinions are posted and archived.

There is a lot out there, from many knowledgeable people. There sure are a lot of flakes with mis-information as well!

As you may know, the Internet has had a few Mergers and Acquisitions. Many search engines are now powered by Google, Infospace or Lycos. Some are now owned by someone else (that in the past you may or may not have liked). Some only list results of websites who have paid to be listed.

I certainly haven't seen all there is out there, but for 6 years I have been attempting to keep this updated (October 2010). I welcome your feedback.

So, tell me... Wadgya think?