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Google -
The world's most popular search engine.
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Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into
the burgeoning search engine market. Better late
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Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest
search engine on the web (as defined by a September
2007
Nielsen Netratings report. |
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AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built
by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's
Western Research Laboratory. From 1996 powered
Yahoo! Search, since 2003 - Yahoo technology powers
AltaVista.
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Cuil: Cuil is a search engine
website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of
ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM. Cuil,
termed as the 'Google Killer' was launched in July,
2008 and claims to be world€™s largest search engine,
indexing three times as many pages as Google and ten
times that of MS.
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Excite: Now an Internet portal, was
once one of the most recognized brands on the
Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms. |
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Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's
search engine is now also an entire portal.
Family-friendly! |
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HotBot was one of the early
Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by
Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com
and MSN.
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AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by
Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results
differently. |
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Galaxy: More of a directory than a
search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the
first searchable Internet directory. Part of the
Einet division at the MCC Research Consortium at the
University of Texas, Austin |
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aol |
search.aol: Now powered by Google.
It is now official.
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Live Search (formerly Windows
Live Search and
MSN Search) Microsoft's web search engine,
designed to compete with Google and Yahoo!. Included
as part of the Internet Explorer web browser.
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Lycos: Initial focus was broadband
entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal
and the 13th largest online property according to
Media Metrix.
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GigaBlast was developed by an
ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports
nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and
infix notation. A unique search engine, it indexes
over 10 billion web pages.
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Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of
Amazon known more for providing website traffic
information. Search was provided by Google, then
Live Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own
search.
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