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SEARCH ENGINES AND SUBJECT DIRECTORIES

 

SEARCH ENGINES
    Newest and most efficient search engines are presented first as Second Generation Engines; the best of the older search engines are presented as First Generation, mainly because they offer results only by term relevancy.

 Second Generation: (Results presented by concept, document type, web site, popularity, etc.

  • All The Web - all the web, all the time; a worthy rival to Google
  • Ask Jeeves - accepts plain English queries; recently purchased Direct Hit
  • Google! - ranks returns by quality of sites; no syntax required for most searches; no OR searching
  • Teoma - ranks results by popularity (other searchers choices)
     

MetaSearch:

 
First Generation:  (Using term relevancy to rank results)

SUBJECT DIRECTORIES 

    Academic and Professional Directories                                        

Commercial Portals:

Last checked December, 2007