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SEARCH TOOLS

Choose one or more:

--- Search Engine Watch
A). SEARCH ENGINES/PORTALS IN GENERAL
B). INFORMATION SERVICES IN GENERAL
C). LATIN AMERICAN/SPAIN SEARCH ENGINES/LINKS
D). SEARCH ENGINES IN EACH LATIN COUNTRY (ALSO SEE THEM BY CHOOSING THE COUNTRY ON THE TABLE OF CONTENTS)

E). EUROPEAN AND THE WORLD(A couple to wet your appetite)

F) RADIO/MUSIC SEARCH ENGINES

Note: Search Engines, Directories and Linkers many times look the same, therefore, if I have inadvertently placed one in the other's category, you will hopefully understand.

 

Search Engine Watch ( http://www.searchenginewatch.com )is a site that offers a lot of information about search engine sites, including charts that compare search site features and site popularity.

 

A). SEARCH ENGINES: The following are some of the many internet search engines/portals/directories/linkers (21 primary group & 52 secondary group) we have encountered
in our use of the internet. Following each search engine/directory/linker is a brief description of what it does best.( There are others out there as well ! )

Choose one or more: PRIMARY LIST , SECONDARY LIST

*NOTE: IT HAS BEEN POINTED OUT TO ME THAT THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A TRUE SEARCH ENGINE AND A PORTAL/DIRECTORY/LINKERS: Search Engines are web sites that permit the user to directly do general searches of the estimated 7 million other web sites on the Internet based on the criteria the user specifies at the start, while the other types (portals/directories/linkers/ informers) require the user to progressively narrow the search step by step in applying information the user started with and picked up along the search, without searching the whole of the Internet)

WHERE ALTAVISTA IS A SEARCH ENGINE, YAHOO IS A DIRECTORY. THE ONES WITH A STAR (*) BESIDE THEM HAVE BEEN CONFIRMED AS A SEARCH ENGINE, THE OTHERS MAY BE A SEARCH ENGINE OR A PORTAL/DIRECTORY/LINKER. ( For further differences on the engines please see Additional Notes).

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PRIMARY LIST

Choose one or more: ALTAVISTA* , AOLNETFIND* , EBIG , EXCITE* , FINDLINK , GEOCITIES , GOTO , HOTBOT* , INFOSEEK* , INTERNET ORACLE , ISLEUTH , KEYSOURCE , LOOKSMART , LYCOS* , MAGELLAN , METACRAWLER , NORTHERN LIGHT* , QUESTFINDER , SEARCH , WEBCRAWLER* , YAHOO ,

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1. http://www.altavista.com (http://www.altavista.digital.com)
+ It finds lots of good search entries.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It also acts a portal (additional services center - examples:
free e-mail, search facilities, categorical information).
+ It has sort of an international slant to it.
+ It has a page on which you can type in text and have it translated
from English to French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish - vice versa.
+ It permits you to conduct searches in Chinese, Japanese or Korean.
- It has no direct directories and requires specific command lines to do searches.
- It does not have a people and business finder.

2. http://www.aol.com/netfind/home.html

3. http://www.ebig.com
+ It was built/maintained by Britannica Encyclopedia Group.
+ It is good for sites on history, the arts and sciences.
+ It has its own directory (not as big as some).
+ It uses Altavista search entries.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people and businesses.
- It is less topical than other search sites.

4. http://www.excite.com
+ It has lots of search entries.
+ It has its own directories.
+ It has free e-mail, maps, news, shopping and travel.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people and businesses.
+ It also acts a portal (additional services center - example: online investment area)
- It is overloaded with confusing features.

5. http://www.findlink.com
Findlink has many thousands of links to other sites on the internet, listed in categories that one can choose. It states that it endeavors to keep out distasteful sites. It does appear to have merit and is worth looking at and giving it a try.

6.http://www.geocities.com (GeoCities)

7. http://www.goto.com (GoTo)

8. http://www.hotbot.com
+ It is easy to use and finds lots of search entries.
+ It provides free e-mail, maps, news, shopping and travel.
+ It has message area searching, news, shareware guide.
- It has no direct directories.

9. http://www.infoseek.com ( http://www2.infoseek.com )
+ It has its own large number (++) of directories.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people
- It has less search entries (Lycos & WebCrawler have even less).

10. http://www.internetoracle.com/business_search_engines.htm
Internet Oracle is a compilation of business and financial search engines.
Can also find companies, people and has a reverse lookup guide.

11. http://www.isleuth.com (Internet Sleuth)

12. http://www.keysource.com
+ It is a cross between a search engine, a directory site and a
news and information site.

13. http://www.looksmart.com
+ It is the easiest to use.
+ It uses Altavista search entries.
- It has a small number of directories of its own.
- It does not search newspapers.
- It does not find people or businesses.

14. http://www.lycos.com
+ It is good for images, sounds and recipes.
+ It is easy to use, with good features.
+ It has message area searching, news, maps, shopping.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people and businesses.
+ It also acts a portal (additional services center - example: free home
page through Tripod).
- It is not as complete as others.
- It has no search entries.
- It has no directories.
http://tripod.com (a lycos group site)

15. http://www.mckinley.com (Magellan)

16. http://www.metacrawler.com ( http://www.go2net.com/search.html )
Another alternate source that looks promising ( I am not to familiar
with this site. I will leave it to you to view ).

17. http://www.northernlight.com
Another alternate source which looks very promising. It provides general
searches, power searches, publications searches, industry searches, and
current news searches.

18. http://www.questfinder.com (Quest Finder)

19. http://www.search.com
+ Searches on Automobiles, Classifieds, Computing, Employment,
Entertainment, Health, Learning, Living, Local, Money, News,
Shopping, Sports, Travel, Web.

20. http://www.webcrawler.com
+ It does have some directories.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people and business.
+ It does have maps and news.
- It has fewer directories than all other search engines except Lycos.
- Some features seem to not be that well integrated.

21. http://www.yahoo.com
+ It has its own large number of directories.
+ It uses Altavista search entries.
+ It is well organized and easy to use.
+ It has chat room and free e-mail, maps and news.
+ It does search newspapers.
+ It does find people and businesses.
+ It also acts a portal (additional services center - example: games played
with people around the world).
- It does not have detail description of search sites.

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SECONDARY LIST

Choose one or more:

22. http://pronet.ca
23. http://www.accesscom.com/~ziegler/search.html (The Search page)
24. http://accufind.com
25. http://all4one.com
26. http://www.allthenet.com
27. http://a2z.com
28. http://www.dejanews.com ( DejaNews / internet finder / browse groups )
29. http://dogpile.com
30. http://easypage.com/all4one (All Four One)
31. http://www.femina.com (Femina - for Women)
32. http://www.feliz.com Software Searcher)
33. http://galaxy.einet.net (Galaxy)
34. http://www.globalconnect.net (Link Zone)
35. http://goto.com
36. http://www.google.com
37. http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000 ( Savvy Search )
38. http://www.linkstar.com
39. http://looksmart.com
40. http://miningco.com
41.http://www.MonkeySweat.com
42.http://www.netfind.com
43. http://www.netguide.com
44. http://www.planetsearch.com
45. http://profusion.com
46. http://search.com
47. http://snap.com
48. http://supersearch.com (= http://dealernet.com )
49. http://www.surfpoint.com
50. http://thunderstone.com
51. http://whatuseek.com
52. http://yahooligans.com (Kid Friendly)
53. http://www.entireweb.com
54. http://www.slider.com Slider - Free Encyclopedia and Search Engine
55. http://www.ixquick.com for megasearch

www.overture.com
www.aol.com
www.excite.com
www.google.com
www.go.com
www.msn.com
www.magellan.com
www.hotbot.com
www.looksmart.com
www.lycos.com
www.search.com
www.webcrawler.com

Additional Master List:
http://www.trafficmagnet.net/list.html

Also try:
http://MSN.com
http://All The Web
http://AOL NetFind
http://Thunderstone
http://DirectHit

 

B). INFORMATION SERVICES: The following are some of the many information sites (20) we have encountered in our use of the internet. Following each info site is a brief description of what it does best. ( There are others out there as well ! )

Choose one or more:

1. http://www.alexa.com
Another alternate source (I am not familiar with this site. I will leave it
to you to view). It states it is a navigation service that accompanies
you while surfing the internet and provides information on the
sites you visit. (Note; it has a downloadable programs that goes along with
your brower, to provide further information - I've used it, it works)
2.http://www.askjeeves.com
3. http://www.ceoexpress.com
CEO Express is a browsing site with sites for the businessman.
4. http://www.clearinghouse.net/index.html
Argus Clearinghouse provides information on many subjects
by links on many sites, categorized by subject matter.
5. http://www.cnet.com
6. http://www.cnnfn.com
CNNfn is an excellent source for information that is proposed as
up-to-the-minute.
C/net is an information service, which includes job searches.
7. http://www.djinteractive.com
Dow Jones Interactive is a "fee-for-service" site which is said to
have much business related information.
8. http://www.elibrary.com (for fee)
9. http://www.emap.com (Directory of websites)
10. http://www.hamline.edu/library/bush/handouts/comparisons.html (Comparer)
11. http://www.interactive.wsj.com
Wall Street Journal is a two level information site. First a lower
level for free and a higher level for a fee.
12. http://www.jayde.com , http://www.jayde.com/searchopt.html
13. http://linkmaster.com (Linkmaster)
14. http://www.lsoft.com/lists/listref.html (Lists Site)
15. http://www.thefreesite.com (Freesite)
16. http://www.shareware.com
17. http://www.whatsnew.com
18. http://www.windows95.com (Microsoft Serch)
19. http://www.1stsearch.com (Job Search in Spain)
20. http://www.3Dup.com (3-D Search)
21. http://www.accesscom.com/~ziegler/search.html (The Search Page)

 

C). LATIN AMERICAN/SPAIN SEARCH ENGINES AND LINKS

Choose one or more:

http://www.altavista.magallanes.net
http://www.altavistaespanol.com ?
http://www.brujula.net
http://www.buscador.clarin.com.ar
http://www.donde.com.ar
http://www.desdeaqui.com
http://www.elbuscador.com (Spain)
http://elcano.com (El Cano- Internet Index in Spanish)
http://www.explore-mex.com (Explore Mexico)
http://espanol.yahoo.com or http://yahoo.com/r/ep
(Yahoo in Spanish for searches in Argentina,
Chile, Colombia, España, Mexico & Venezuela)
http://www.gauchonet.com.ar
http://www.iguana.com.mx
http://www.internet.com.uy
http://www.lanacion.com.ar
http://www.latinworld.com
http://www.lycosespanol.com ?
http://www.metabusca.com (Metabusca)
http://www.mexico.web.com.mx
http://www.mexmaster.com (Mex Master)
http://www.ole.es (Olé)
http://www.ozu.com (Ozú)
http://www.ozu.es (Spain Linker)
http://www.porvenir.com
http://www.que_pasa.com
http://www.radar.com.mx
http://sol.com (Net provider in Seville, Spain)
http://www.telepolis.com
http://ugabula.com (Ugabula)
http://www.yahooespanol.com ?
http://www.yellow.com.mx
http://www.yupi.com (Yupi - in Spanish for searches in Argentina,
Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador,
El Salvador, España, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico,
Panama, Paraguay, Perú, Puerto Rico, & Venezuela)
http://www.zidro.com
http://www.desdeaqui.com
http://www.bil.com.mx  (burro legal)
http://www.dioweb.com/03Espanol/DioWeb/dioweb.html

 

D).SEARCH ENGINES IN EACH LATIN COUNTRY

Choose one or more: Argentina WWW, Belice WWW, Bolivia WWW , Brazil WWW , Chile WWW , Colombia WWW , Costa Rica WWW , Cuba WWW , Dominican Republic WWW, Ecuador WWW , El Salvador WWW , Guatemala WWW , Honduras WWW , Mexico WWW , Nicaragua WWW, Panama WWW , Paraguay WWW , Peru WWW , Puerto Rico WWW, Uruguay WWW , Venezuela WWW .

other: http://www.worldlinker.net

 

E). EUROPEAN AND THE WORLD

Choose one or more:

http://bubl.ac.uk (Search Tools)
http://www.euroseek.net (Euro links)
http://www.lalinea.com (Spain/Gibraltor site)
http://www.yweb.com (Europe Directory)
http://www.searchonline.info (supports UK, US, Canada, and French regional searches, multiple languages, mailing and saving of results directly from the result list, and many other features. Powered by moreover.com, which delivers news from over 1,000 sources grouped into over 300 categories. All features are free. Only advanced functions like news subscriptions require registration.)

EUROPE:
Germany -
Web.de - http://web.de
Altavista Germany - http://www.altavista.de

France -
Ecila - http://www.ecila.fr
Voila France - http://www.voila.fr

Italy -
Virgilio - http://www.virgilio.it
Arianna - http://www.arianna.it

Russia -
Rambler - http://www.rambler.ru
Yandex - http://www.yandex.ru

Spain -
Olé - http://www.ole.com

UK -
SearchUK - http://www.searchuk.com
UK Plus - http://www.ukplus.co.uk

China -
SurfChina - http://www.surfchina.com
Yahoo Chinese - http://chinese.yahoo.com

Japan -
Excite Japan - http://jp.excite.com
Goo - http://www.goo.ne.jp

    Korea -
Yahoo Korea - http://www.yahoo.co.kr
Keimyung - http://www.keimyung.ac.kr

LATIN AMERICA:
Iguana - http://www.iguana.com.mx

Peru -
PeruOnline - http://www.peruonline.com

To identify other foreign search engines and directories, go to:
- http://www.searchenginewatch.com/links/Regional_Search_Engines/, or
- http://www.allsearchengines.com/foreign.html, or
- http://www.searchenginecolossus.com

 

F) RADIO/MUSIC SEARCH ENGINES

http://www.3starsentertainment.com/starsearch.htm

 

ADDITIONAL NOTES ON ENGINES:

What engines will do with your website:

Link popularity

Search engines like Excite, Infoseek and Lycos will check how many links there are to your site from others. Links boost the placement of the ranking. Infoseek has a more complex link popularity system which places emphasis on linking site status and relevancy.

Domain Name

The use of keywords in domain names is favored by Altavista, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos and Webcrawlers. Keywords in subdomain (secondary) names help too. Do not lump keywords together; separate words by dashes.

Meta Tags

Meta tags are always mentioned when it comes to search engine optimization. To a certain extent, it has been misunderstood that meta tags help in boosting rank postings. AltaVista, Excite, Lycos, Netfind, NorthernLights and WebCrawler have low regard for meta tags and words or text in meta tags. Hence, they will not boost you in these search engines.

Invisible and Tiny Text

Excite is the most "spamable" search engine. It will index invisible and tiny text. Webcrawler and Netfind allow invisible text and Infoseek and NothernLights will index tiny words. Invisible text (to web browsers) can be achieved by specifying foreground and background in the same color. Tiny sized text is placing text on a page in a small font size. A page with predominantly heavy tiny text will be treated as spam by Altavista, HotBot, Lycos, MSN and Webcrawler and they will refuse to index heavily tiny texted web pages.

Index Comments and ALT

Some web page designers insert keywords or phrases in various parts of the web, wanting to give a boost to the keywords. Not all search engines recognise comment as keywords; only HotBot does. ALT text for images is another trick commonly used. However, only AltaVista, InfoSeek and Lycos index ALT text.

Stemming

Infoseek, Lycos and NorthernLights will also search for variations of a word based on its stem. For example, searching for the word "optimization" will result in pages containing "optimize" or "optimizes".

Case Sensitive

AltaVista is the search engine that is case sensitive. If you search for the phrase "search engine optimization" you would get a completely different result than from "search engines optimization".

Consistency

Consistency of keywords throughout the page is viewed as important by Altavista, Hotbot and Webcrawler. Hence, keywords have to be spread over the web page, particularly at the bottom.