| 1 |
Yahoo!
provider of comprehensive online products and services to consumers and
businesses worldwide. |
| 2 |
Google search engine
employs text-matching techniques to find pages that are both important and
relevant to a user's search. |
| 3 |
MSN Internet Search |
| 4 |
AOL Search
search engine and directory. |
| 5 |
Ask Jeeves
allows users to search by question, phrase, or term. |
| 6 |
Search Engine Watch
tracking search engine news, important changes, and providing quality
information about these important tools. |
| 7 |
Overture
provider of pay-for-performance search results to web sites across the
Internet. |
| 8 |
InfoSpace
develops software technologies that allow customers to offer a broad array
of network-based services under their own brand. |
| 9 |
AltaVista
portal featuring web and newsgroup search engine as well as paid submission
services. |
| 10 |
Lycos
online destination site combining elements of navigation, community, and
commerce. |
| 11 |
AllTheWeb |
| 12 |
Teoma
compares links of sites that are subject relevant. |
| 13 |
WiseNut
employs a context-sensitive ranking algorithm to return search results by
degrees of relevance. |
| 14 |
Vivísimo
offers organized search results with document clustering. |
| 15 |
HotBot
search engine that offers custom filters, skins, and access various other
engines. |
| 16 |
Dogpile
multi-engine semi-parallel search interface. Searches logically through
several search engines until 10 matches are found. Allows use of boolean and
proximity operators. |
| 17 |
MetaCrawler
search service that relies on the databases of other search engines. |
| 18 |
WebCrawler |
| 19 |
Yahoo! People
Search
white pages with an email and phone number search. |
| 20 |
WhoWhere?
find addresses and numbers by name and location. |