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An all-time
great, superfast. Has news service from ABC; a translation
service and incorporates Looksmart
directories. |
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Make queries
using plain English. "Uses sophisticated natural language
processing to understand and match users' questions to an
extensive knowledge base." Often throws up links you'd
never thought of looking for. Has been licensed by many other
services. |
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North American yellow pages. |
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A meta-search
engine that sends queries to AltaVista,
Excite, HotBot,
InfoSeek, Lycos,
WebCrawler and Yahoo,
then organises the responses and presents them according to
relevance and source. Quite good. |
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Categorised search |
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Relatively new search engine front end which converts your English like queries and converts it to a Boolean search string. Only returns top ten results though. |
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A common interface to a collection of the best search engines. Also contains description about each of the featured search engines |
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European business directory listing |
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Searches based on
concepts and keywords with very useful 'more of this'
feature. Good for exploratory searches. Now has a Spanish
site. |
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Classified directory to help you locate businesses in the UK |
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Formerly
INFOSEEK. Search categories include news, education, business,
etc. |
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Many people rate
this as the best. Gets more comprehensive every day. |
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Fast searcher
(formerly the World Wide Web Worm) Searches the entire Web, if a
site is registered, then it will be found. Fast and comprehensive
once connected. |
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A directory
service, also integrated into AltaVista
from Readers Digest. Has UK
site. |
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Another favourite
with loads of indexed pages, including a directory of popular
sites. Default language is Spanish. |
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Web directory and search engine facility. Also Virtual Michelin Guide to Web sites, with ratings on quality, depth, organisation, appeal etc. |
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Sends your queries to several web search engines |
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This is a search
engine with a bias towards UK content. Easy to use, very quick
and has a number of unique search options. |
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Categorised
search, not bad. |
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AOL's search
service that finds sites, articles, people and businesses |
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Another web
directory service - claims to be largest! |
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A neat search
engine that places your search results into folders to let you
quickly home in on your criteria. A bit slow though. |
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Seems good,
haven't used it in anger yet. For the moment! |
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A meta-searcher,
simultaneously searches and returns results from 9 internet
search engines. Users can choose which search engines to used,
including things like "fastest"; "best". |
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Another
meta-searcher, simultaneously searches and returns results from
several internet search engines. Tells you which engine returned
a result. Part of cnet.com. Quite good. |
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A meta-search
engine plus directory. Searches can be directed to "true"
search engines or to "directories" and can be
customised according to country. Can be confusing to first time
user. Part of cnet.com |
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Another good, no
frills search engine, which returns quite relevant results. |
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A directory
service, which can be personalised by users. It has a "speed"
feature that presents more information to users with high speed
internet connections. Strangely, all the UK stuff is listed under
England!?! |
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A meta-search engine. Comprehensive.
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A search tool
with a difference. You enter your search criteria, and web sites
you want to monitor and it sends the results to you via email.
Uses AltaVista,
Excite, InfoSeek
and Lycos although you can
only specify one engine per search criterion. A neat |
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Another meta-search system, that submits your queries to 11 search engines including Usenet News sites. But its up to you to go into each of the respective search sites to view the results. Saves time going to each one, but consolidation of results would be nice. |
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A site catalog, with generating results quite quickly. Catagorises sites instead of pages. However, results seem to return mainly commercial sites. |
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Directory search engine for locating UK based resources and companies |
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As name implies, only indexes UK sites; can be slow |
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News, arts, entertainment, etc. in the USA |
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A comprehensive
categorised search facility. |
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Claims to support "natural language" queries, but turns up all kinds of weird results. Seem to rely heavily on Yahoo directories. |
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The classic with categorised sites, one of the first and most extensive. Very popular, so can be slow. Use Yahoo España for local information |
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BT's Yellow Pages online (slow for a UK based service … too popular??) |
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Another categorised search of European Web sites |
indicates my preference, where I have one)