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www.ah-ha.com Ah-Ha is a family friendly search developed in 1999.
www.aol.com AOL Netfind often gets more hits than yahoo according to biz reports.
www.altavista.com Alta-Vista is comprehensive, featuring speed & "refinable results" including specific languages.
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www.alltheweb.com/ All the Web (powered by fastsearch.com) claims to be the world largest, fastest and most comprehensive search engine.
www.ananova.com Ananova --targeting the "wireless" set.
www.askjeeves.com AskJeeves lets ya' literally ask; with a section just for kidz.
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www.dogpile.com DogPile is powered by Infospace.
www.excite.com Excite goes beyond keyword search and tries to understand concepts; has prompts with keyword list to help refine (in multi-national languages).
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http://www.findwhat.com FindWhat prioritizes according to paid placement, advertisers.
www.einet.net Galaxy searches titles, texts and is proud of it's specificity for your search.
google.com Google is another engine born at Stanford (ditto Yahoo & Excite) ranks results both on popularity and search phrase matching; RK recommends for indepth searches.
         NEW!images.google.com Google's Image Search is the most comprehensive on the Web, with more than 250 million images.
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www.hotbot.com HotBot uses parallel processing technology to index; flexible search interface can focus on search by date, domain, or media.
infomine.ucr.edu Infomine has multiple database searching; it's an "academic" engine zooming in on scholarly resources, electronic journals/books, online library card catalogs, researchers' directories.
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www.infospace.com Infospace specializes in syndicating content through partners such as Netscape, Lycos, the Wall Street Journal, Microsoft, CBS, ABC, and others.
www.jayde.com Jayde is now promoting itself as a search engine primarily for e-businesses.
www.looksmart.com LookSmart was founded in 1995 and has 32 directories in 27 countries & 13 languages, claims to be used by 3 out of 4 US net users; partnering with MSN, Excite@Home, AltaVista, iWon, Time Warner and more than 370 Internet service providers.
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www.lycos.com Lycos offers much beyond the Web; uses a "LiveWire" agent technology to rank sites, then allows you to vote on the usefulness of results. (multi-national languages).
www.mamma.com Mamma a "Meta Engine" which sends your query to Yahoo, AltaVista, Infoseek, and more simultaneously. Like Smucker's™: with a name like that-- it's gotta be good! R K recommends for quick finds!
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home.netscape.com Netscape features a drop menu allowing search using 8 engines including LookSmart Lycos, Excite and others you'll find here on the shelf.
www.northernlight.com Northern Light is one of the largest indexes, featuring a unique format, organizing results into folders of related sites.
rex.skyline.net Rex is worth the visit just to see the nice doggie animations!
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www.scrubtheweb.com ScrubTheWeb includes a meta tag analyzer, handy for web-sters!
whatuseek.com WhatUSeek uses Chubba searches in the whatUseek Web Index, AltaVista, Kanoodle, Infoseek, GoTo.com and Lycos, all from one query.
cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html W3, an esoteric directory of search engines available on the Web, organized by category.
www.yahoo.com Yahoo! (You Always Have Other Options) makes ya' wonder what can be said about these guys whose name's now synonymous with SEARCH (multi-national languages).
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