Search Engines

AskforKids was formerly part of the Ask Jeeves for Kids. The website is very simple to follow. There is a place to type in a question and an answer with its source will appear. On the answer page are links to the sources and information about them. - [Read more]

This is the AT&T web search site. On the homepage is a Google web search plus other features such as a mail box, addresses, calendar, toolbar with security features, IMing, newsgroups, webpages, parental controls, and much more. There are also links to web tools such as white and yellow pages, zip codes, maps, area codes, and more. Users can shop by categories. Also news and market indices. - [Read more]

Atomz is a free online search engine. For a fee, users can use an ad-free version of the Atomz search engine. Sign up and download are available on the website. - [Read more]

Freefind is a website search engine that is used by over 100,000 websites. It tracks use, can be used with other search engines, utilizes languages other than English, and much more. - [Read more]

This is a version of the yahoo search engine for kids. Kids can search for games, music, sports, get homework help, look up words, learn about science and much more. - [Read more]

Google is the largest search engine on the Web, with a number of features that make it popular such as "pageRank" which derives from an algorithm the number of times a site is searched to assess it's importance as a site. There are many other google sites such as google.maps. Google has entered the lexicon as a word: "To google" means to search on the internet. - [Read more]

Founded in 2000 by 3 Carnegie Mellon University scientists who were interested in the problem of information overload that occurs on many internet searches. They developed Clusty, a metasearch engine, which groups search results into clusters. Clusters help the user see the search results by topic rather than just a long list. Information about Clusty and how to use it are on the website. - [Read more]

mnoGoSearch is free search engine software written in C. It searches both internet and intranet servers. The software has some unique features that make it especially well suited for recipes, MP3 searches, news searches, ftp archive research and more. The software and its features are described on the website as well as information about downloading, service, and documentation. - [Read more]

SEW began in 1995 with a study of why some websites did not show up on certain search engines. It was then launched in 1997 on the web. It provides tips and information about searching the internet, analysis of the search engine history, and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines. On the website are "Search 101," blogs, news, stats and more. - [Read more]

This popular search engine can help you find information, local businesses, and online shopping as well as photos and illustrations. - [Read more]

AltaVista is a search engine that searches the Internet around the world or just in the USA. Contains Babel Fish translation capability on the homepage and is also divided into separate categories such as travel, people finder, answers, and much more. - [Read more]

Formerly called AskJeeves.com, Ask.com is a major search engine with algorithms that rank the most authoritative sites for each search. The company also provides AskforKids, Bloglines, Evite, Excite, FunWeb Products, iwon, and MyWay. - [Read more]

Lycos is a popular search engine that was developed at Carnegie Mellon University in 1994. Aside from the usual email, weather, and search capabilities, Lycos concentrates on entertainment information, such as games, cinema and even has a link to "dating." - [Read more]

Search is a metasearch search engine, which searches major search engines all at once. Among its services are shopping, video, reference, a categorized web directory, games, music, and much more. - [Read more]

This Google site allows the user to search for images on the internet using a keyword search. The results may be photographs, paintings, drawings, or more. - [Read more]

This is the search site for America Online. Search results are sorted and ranked by Google and may contain objectionable material not endorsed by AOL. - [Read more]

This site is the access point to basic searching on Microsoft. Can be searched in languages other than English and also access to other Microsoft sites and an advanced search capability. - [Read more]

All The Web, founded in 1999, is a search engine. Users can customize their searches by Web, News, Pictures, Video, or Audio with Web as the default. All the Web also offers advanced search options such as "all the words" "any of the words," etc. The site describes its uses and also how to submit a site to its database and how to download the system. - [Read more]

Dogpile is a metasearch engine that calls itself "all the best search engines piled into one." One request fetches data from a number of other search engines. The homepage of Dogpile is very simple with no ads or news, just links to types of search--images, video, news, yellow pages, white pages, and preferences. - [Read more]

Live Search is Microsoft's web search engine. Live Search can go beyond the normal search to also find articles in academic journals and papers, classifieds, maps and driving directions, products, and more. Some searches are still in Beta testing mode. - [Read more]