| Audio/Music |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista
| Dogpile |
Fazzle |
FindSounds.com |
FtpFind |
Genie Knows |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Lycos Music
Downloads | Mamma
| Lycos Multimedia
Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Researchville: Audio |
Singingfish
|
| Date last modified |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Teoma
Advanced Search
|
| Domain/Site/URL |
AltaVista |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AOL
Advanced Search |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced
Search |
Mama Power Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Namedroppers.com
| SearchEdu.com |
Teoma
Advanced Search
|
| File Format |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AOL
Advanced Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search
|
| Geographic location |
AllTheWeb Advanced |
HotBot Advanced Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search
|
| Images |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista
| The Amazing
Picture Machine | Ditto
| Dogpile |
Fazzle |
Google Image Search
|
HotBot Advanced Search |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Mamma |
MSN Search
Advanced Search | Picsearch |
Researchville:
Images |
Yahoo!
News Image Gallery
|
| Language |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista More Precision |
AOL
Advanced Search |
Google
Language Tools |
HotBot Advanced Search |
iBoogie |
Lycos Advanced
Search | MSN Search Advanced Search |
Teoma
Advanced Search
|
| Multimedia & video |
All TheWeb |
AltaVista |
Dogpile
| Fazzle |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Lycos Multimedia
Search | Mamma |
Researchville:
Video | Singingfish
|
| Page Title/URL |
AOL
Advanced Search | Google |
HotBot
Advanced Search |
Teoma
Advanced Search
|
| Programming Language/File Extension |
HotBot
Advanced Search |
MSN Search
Advanced Search
|
| Boolean operators |
AltaVista |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
Dogpile |
Google |
Ixquick |
metaEUREKA |
ProFusion
|
Full Boolean logic with parentheses
e.g., behavior and (cats or felines) |
Ixquick |
MSN Search
Advanced Search
|
| Boolean logic using search form terminology |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista
Advanced Web Search
AOL
Advanced Search |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced
Search | Metor |
MonkeySweat |
MSN Search
Advanced Search |
Teoma
Advanced Search
|
| Proximity searching |
Google |
Ixquick
|
| Alternative search terms |
SurfWax
|
| A user fill-in search form |
AltaVista More
Precision |
Google
Advanced Search |
HotBot Advanced Search |
Lycos Advanced
Search | metaEUREKA |
Metor
| MSN Search
Advanced Search |
ProFusion Advanced |
Virtual Learning
Resources Center
|
| Search for documents similar to those in existing
results |
AltaVista |
Google
| iLOR |
ProFusion
|
| Retrieve results on related searches |
AltaVista |
Ixquick |
Lycos |
Teoma
|
| Truncation |
AltaVista |
Ixquick |
MSN Search
Advanced Search
|
| Your search stated in plain English |
Ask Jeeves
| Ithaki |
Ixquick
|
| Translation of pages retrieved as search results, or
any text or Web page, to and from selected languages |
Babel
Fish
|
| An exact phrase from a template choice |
AllTheWeb Advanced Search |
AltaVista More
Precision | Fazzle
| Google
Advanced Search |
MonkeySweat |
MSN Search Advanced Search
|
| Multiple search tools searched simultaneously with
duplicate records removed |
Chubba
| Clusty |
Copernic |
FastSeeks |
Fazzle |
Ithaki |
Ixquick |
Mamma |
MetaCrawler |
ProFusion |
Query Server |
SurfWax |
|
| Results based on linking, i.e., number of links from
highly rated Web pages |
A9 |
Alexa Web Search |
AltaVista |
Google |
Google Web Directory
| Teoma
|
| Results based on popularity, i.e., selections by other
searchers or rankings by engines/directories |
Alexa Web
Search | AOL Search
| Ixquick |
Teoma |
ZapMeta
|
| Results clustered by concept and/or type of site (a
"horizontal" rather than a single vertical list of results) |
Accumo |
AllThe Web |
Clusty |
Dogpile |
iBoogie |
Infonetware |
metaEUREEKA |
Kartoo |
KillerInfo |
Query Server |
Mooter |
Teoma |
Turbo10 |
Vivisimo
|
| Clustering of results into one hit per site with the
option to see all |
AllTheWeb |
AltaVista |
Lycos
|
| Queries stored at the site and notification of new
results |
Google Alert |
Karnak |
TracerLock
|
| Queries stored by the search service for repeat
searches |
Copernic
|
| The Deep Web (not generally covered by search spiders) |
Complete Planet |
Direct
Search | Google |
Invisible-web.net
| ProFusion |
Search.Com |
Turbo10
|
Ixquick
| InfoGrid]
|
| Files in FTP sites (text, multimedia, software, etc.) |
FileWatcher.org |
Ftpsearchengines.com |
Oth Net
|
| Locally saved pages |
Furl |
Spurl.net
|
|
News (multiple sources searched simultaneously) |
AlltheWeb: News |
AltaVista - News |
FindNews.org |
Google News
Alerts | InfoGrid
| News Is Free |
NewsNow |
NewsTrove.com |
Pandia Newsfinder
| RocketNews |
Topix.net |
The WorldNews Network
|
|
Usenet newsgroup postings |
Ithaki |
Google
Groups
|
|
Reference sources (dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-mail and address
lookups, calculators, quotations, news, government info, statistics etc.) |
Reference
Collection
|
|
Professionally maintained directories |
About |
Academic
Info | BUBL LINK
| INFOMINE |
Librarians' Index to the
Internet | Resource
Discovery Network |
Scout Report
Archives | Virtual
Learning Resources Center |
WWW Virtual Library
|
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Directories maintained by volunteers |
JoeAnt
| Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
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