SEARCH ENGINE STATION

WEB SEARCH ENGINES (TEXT ON THE WEB) *

*(listed in no particular order)

Search Engine Name	Popular Features (what they search for)
• Google	Web | Images | Groups | News | Local | Scholar
• Google Books
• Yahoo!	Web | Images| Video| Audio | Directory | Local | News
• Ask.com	Web | Pictures | News | Local | Products | More
• Windows Live Academic Search	Search for scholarly journal articles, conference proceedings, dissertations and academic books.
• MSN Search	Web | Desktop| News| Images| Local (BETA) | Encarta
• AOL Search	web | pictures | video | audio | news | local | shopping
• AltaVista	Web | Images | MP3/Audio | Video | News
• Dogpile	Combined Search of Google, MSN, Ask, and Yahoo! under one interface
• fast::search	"All-the-Web" Search Engine Web | News | Pictures | Video| Audio
• NorthernLight.com
• Open Directory
• ixQuick	the world's most powerful metasearch engine
• SurfWax	Enabling knowledge
• Excite
• Go.com
• hOTbOT
• Lycos
• WebCrawler
• CNET Search.com	We Search, You Find

POPULAR IMAGE SEARCH ENGINES
(NOT ALL IMAGES FOUND ARE PUBLIC DOMAIN/FREE)

• AltaVista Images	AltaVista Images
• MSN Images	MSN Images
• Google Images	Google Images
• Yahoo Images	Yahoo Images
	*** Please note that not all images found using these engines are free/public-domain. Images are still copyrighted by their original artists/photographers and can only be used for personal use when specified specifically for such use.

SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES

• Google U.S. Government Search	Search millions of Government Documents
• Google's Linux	Search the Web's Linux Resources
• Search.com	specializing in Reference
• ditto.com	the image search engine
• Image Libraries	from The Library Spot
• Ask.com	the natural language search engine
• News Index	the News-Only Search Engine
• Cool Quiz	the Trivial search engine

 

SEARCH ENGINE EVALUATIONS, COMPARISONS

• Search Engine Showdown
• SearchEngineWatch