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well-known & well-used Search Engines and Directories

Top Choices: The search engines below are all excellent choices to start with when searching for information.

Google
http://www.google.com

Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com

Ask
http://www.ask.com

Strongly Consider: The search engines below are other good choices to consider when searching the web.

AllTheWeb.com
http://www.alltheweb.com

AOL Search
http://aolsearch.aol.com (internal)
http://search.aol.com/(external)

HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com

Other Choices:
The sites below are "major" in the sense that they either still receive significant amounts of traffic or they've earned a reputation in the past that still causes some people to consider them to be important. For various reasons explained below, they are not among our top search choices. However, certainly feel free to try them. They could turn out to be top choices for you.

AltaVista
http://www.altavista.com

Gigablast
http://www.gigablast.com

Live Search
http://www.live.com/

LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com

Netscape Search
http://search.netscape.com

Open Directory
http://dmoz.org/

More Search Engine Lists: Still looking for more search engines? Consider these options:

Direct Search
http://www.freepint.com/gary/direct.htm

 InfoGrid
http://www.infogrid.com  

SearchIQ
http://www.zdnet.com/searchiq/

Skworm
http://www.skworm.com/

CUI W3 Search Engines
http://cui.unige.ch/meta-index.html

AllSearchEngines.com
http://www.allsearchengines.com/

Big Search Engine Index
http://www.search-engine-index.co.uk/

DirectoryGuide
http://www.siteowner.com/dgdefault.cfm

SearchBug.com
http://www.searchbug.com

Search Engine Colossus
http://www.searchenginecolossus.com

Other Global Search Engines
Other services that cover the world. They may not be as popular or well-known as the services above, but they may still be helpful

Community-Based Search Engines
Places where volunteers are involved in the listing process

Guides To Search Engines
Lists places that themselves list hundreds of search engines worldwide.

Where Are They Now? Search Engines We've Known & Loved
The Search Engine Report, March 4, 2003

Not a list of search engines but some additional past history about the major players above and former major search engines that have faded in glory or disappeared entirely, over time.

For further details plz. refer to > http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=2156221#others

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