You can use all of your favorite Web search pages from this page! Each box performs a search of the World Wide Web using a search page. Type something in the box and press Enter to perform a search. Or click the name of the Web search page (for example, "Google") to go to the main page for that site.
The results of each search are opened in a new browser window. If you want to start over with another search, switch back to this window and start again!
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Google
Google uses a proprietary technique to rank pages by relevance, so the
first pages you find are usually the ones that bear most directly on the
topic you were searching for.
Also has indexes of images, usenet discussions, and current news stories
from online sources around the world.
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Microsoft Bing
Bing is Microsoft's Google Killer. It's nowhere near as comprehensive as Google, but Microsoft is working really hard on it so it's worth a try. |
Yahoo!
The oldest major category-based search program, recently revamped to be
much more Google-ish, with a web index, image index, and more
as well as the classic directory
They have about a million other things linked to their site,
such as a Yahooligans, a search engine for
kids (www.yahooligans.com).
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Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves is partly a web index and partly a manually maintained directory of questions and answers. If your topic is one they address (and they address a heck of a lot of them), its information is of extremely high quality. |
Teoma
The search engine part of Ask Jeeves, relevance rank based on how popular the site was with previous search users. Also returns paid listings. Formerly known as Direct Hit. |
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Lycos
Lycos was the first automated web index, now part of Terra Lycos, a web portal controlled by Telefonica, the Spanish phone company. In many ways they've long since been surpassed by Google and Yahoo, although the little thumbnails of the web sites they find are cute. Ranks by how often sites clicked by people making similar searches before, not unlike Teoma. |
Bytedog
A "metasearch" run by grad students at Carnegie-Mellon University and other schools that searches several places and gives you a combined report. Cute graphics, too. Woof! |
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