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International Search Engines
Suchmachinen .-. Moteurs de recherche .-. Zoekmachines
Last update: April 8, 2002
Philatelic Search Engines:
International Search Engines with descriptions:
- All the Web
One of the more recently developed Web indexing tools, this search engine indexes a very large database. It has separate search boxes for audio, FTP, and picture files. Advanced search options support domain filters, word filters, and allow searching in 25 different languages.
- Alta Vista
The AltaVista search service helps you find Web pages, news, discussions, products, images, videos or audio clips on the World Wide Web. You tell the search service what you're looking for by typing in keywords, phrases, or questions in the search box. AltaVista has the biggest Web index with more than 30 million documents on 275,600 servers, and 14 miljoen articles and 14,000 Usenet news groups.
- Excite
Search engine and directory, stock quotes, yellow pages, news, classifieds, maps, horoscopes, weather, sports, chat, personalized features, and more.
- Galaxy
Galaxy is a guide to find world wide information and is provided by the TradeWave Corporation
- Google
Simply the best search engine on the Web, indexing the largest number of Web pages -- and now offering the ability to search images, and more. Google is an amazing site which uses sophisticated next-generation technology to produce the right results fast with every query. Currently has more than 1.6 billion Web pages in its index!
- Hotbot
A great tool. Possibly the largest search index on the WWW. Hotbot indexes every word, link, and media file on more than 110 million Web documents and refreshes its entire database of documents every three to four weeks. Part of the Lycos Network of sites. Hotbot allows users to construct sophisticated search queries of its index without previous knowledge of complex search terms and methodologies .
- GO Network Express Search
Web portal that integrates content, personalization, search, directory, community and much more.
- Lycos
Lycos is a comprehensive Internet database that allows Boolean 'and' and 'or' combinations of words in searching more than 19 million Web sites.
- MetaCrawler
MetaCrawler simultaneously searches Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, Thunderstone, DirectHit, LookSmart, and Yahoo. A brief annotation is provided with the search results.
- Nothern Light Search
Nothern Light Search is unique in that it searches both full-text articles of more than 2,000 publications as well as a large number of Web pages. Sort results into folders based on keywords, source, or other criteria.
- NBCi
Search engine and directory, stock quotes, yellow pages, news, classifieds, maps, horoscopes, weather, sports, chat, personalized features, and more.NBCi ranks site popularity based on the number of its users who click on the site and find it useful for a particular topic, the higher it will be listed in the search results over time.
- Webcrawler
Just enter one or more words in the Search text box on the Webcrawler home page and click on Search. It doesn't matter whether you use capital or lowercase letters. If you enter more than one word, Webcrawler will automatically find records that contain one or more of them.
- What's New
What's New, the complete listings of new Web sites on the Internet. A great site for finding the latest additions to the Web.
- Yahoo
Yahoo, a popular favorite, which is a fairly comprehensive subject index. More of a directory than search engine; however, have partnered with Google.com to provide excellent searching in addition to its directory. Options at the bottom of the screen link to searches in a particular country (Denmark, France, Mexico) or city (Los Angeles, New York City) which may be in the native language of that country.
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