| Abbreviations | for abbreviations |
| ABC Search engine | - every search starts with ABC |
| About | for guidance, not guesswork |
| Acronym finder | - for over 750,000 human edited definitions |
| Ajaxwhois | is a great for site statistics searches |
| Alexa | is good for finding information on the top 100k sites |
| AllPlus | - meta search and discovery engine |
| AlltheWeb | - part of the Yahoo family |
| AltaVista | is still out there, still doing a good job |
| Answers | is the world's leading Q&A site |
| AOL Search | no, I didn't think it was still going, but it is |
| Ask (Jeeves) | still limping along, shadow of its former self |
| Ask | if you want the US/global version |
| Azoos | is the brightest yellow search engine out there |
| Backtype | for realtime conversational search |
| Behold | for flickr images |
| Betterwhois | gets you good accurate information on domains |
| BeyondAdaze | for internet search tools for correlation, compliation and off-line searching. |
| Blindsearch | to compare results of major engines |
| Blinkx | is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it! |
| Browsys | is a multi search engine |
| ChaCha | allows you get other people to help with your search |
| Collarity | for personalised searching across different types of data |
| Collecta | for real time search |
| CompletePlant | for 70k of searchable databases. Good for deep web |
| Country search engines | is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries |
| Definitions | is good for thousands of definitions |
| Deepdyve | for deep web searching |
| Digital Librarian | ; a librarian's choice of the best of the web |
| DMOZ | for a hierarchical directory, old but still good |
| Dogpile | for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB) |
| Dooblet | finds alternatives for you |
| Draze | to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing |
| DuckDuckGo | is a family safe engine |
| Entireweb | is a freetext search engine |
| Exalead | is an excellent alternative to Google |
| Excite | is there, but does anyone use it any more? |
| Factbites | where results make sense |
| FaganFinder | is a superb collection of search resources |
| Fefoo | multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines |
| Findanyfilm | available in the UK in any format |
| FindSounds | for sound effects |
| FinQoo | is an underwhelming meta search engine |
| Forelook | for Google, Bing, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Wolfram |
| Freesearch | is a UK based search resource |
| Galaxy | is a directory based search engine |
| Goofram | for Google and Wolfram Alpha |
| Google | doesn't need any words from me |
| Great PDF | search engine - does exactly that - PDF search |
| Harvester42 | Straightforward multi search engine, covering about 50 different resources divided into 16 different categories. |
| hashtagify.me | This is a nice little search feature for hashtags on Twitter. |
| healia | is an excellent medical search engine |
| Heapr | for Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia |
| Hotbot | is a blast from the past and that's about all |
| Hunch | is a decision engine, which works very well indeed |
| iBoogie | is a clustering meta search engine |
| Icerocket | has RSS feed options and is a good alternative |
| IllumiRate | lights your way through the web. Apparently. |
| Infomine | for scholarly data, and is excellent |
| Info Service | is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though |
| Internet Archive | to see all those old pages! |
| Intute | for academic resources. First class service |
| Irazoo | search, win gift cards. I want to search, not win $5 |
| Iseek | is a clustering search engine; very good too |
| Ixquick | is an excellent metasearch engine |
| KidsClick | is websearch for children by librarians |
| KidRex | is another children's safe search engine |
| Kngine | styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine |
| Letzfind | framed multi search engine. Lots of resources |
| Librarians' Internet Index | is a brilliant resource |
| LocateTV | find shows, actors and movies |
| Lyrics | is a great search engine to find those song lyrics. V. Good. |
| Lycos | is still out there, but getting old and creaky |
| Macroglossa | Visual search engine Upload image, see what it finds |
| Mahalo | for social search, human created information resources |
| Mamma | is the mother of all meta search engines |
| Melzoo | results on the left, fullscreen page on the right pane |
| MetaCrawler | is a meta search engine |
| Middlespot | is a visual search engine |
| Monstercrawler | for a GYAB search |
| Mundusearch | for web, sounds, lyrics, music and video |
| MyAllSearch | You can choose from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask (Jeeves), Yandex, Lycos, Metacrawler, Entireweb and DuckDuckGo. |
| Navisso | is a search engine that doesn't push official sites up |
| Newscred | for credible news stories |
| Nexplore | straightforward web/news/video etc. |
| Nobrandsearch | Search 3 engines blindtesting. Which is best? |
| OAIster | for academic material that's otherwise hard to find |
| OmniMedicalSearch | is a top notch medical search engine |
| OneRiot | for realtime search |
| Online Casinos | Arranged by location, type, games, reviews etc |
| Oxysearch | is a multi search engine for GYAB and Pixsy |
| Panabee | for comparing results from different search engines |
| Pepesearch | for freetext and directory search. Not impressed |
| Phrases.net | for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms |
| Pinakes | is a superb collection of virtual libraries |
| Pokersites | is the premier guide to the best online poker sites |
| PolyMeta | is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine |
| Qrobe | for Google, Yahoo/Bing and Ask |
| Questfinder | is a selective web directory |
| Quotes.net | for famous and not so famous quotations |
| Quintura | for visual search in a word/tag cloud |
| Qwiki | gives you images and text and reads it out to you. Why? I have no idea. |
| RealMoneyPoker | offers an online Texas Hold'em legality search engine |
| Redz | for visual search - an arch of webpage thumbnails |
| References | is a good source of reference resources |
| ReferrerCode | - An Online Games Bonus Code Search Engine |
| Re-QUEST | is a directory based engine |
| Rhymes.net | is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as well. |
| Scandoo | checks for authority of the results it returns |
| Scirus | for scientific data - great for academic use |
| Scoopler | for real time search |
| Scour | to search socially, see community votes and comments |
| Searchbug | for people and company search in the US |
| Search | is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it |
| Searchboth | lets you compare results for 9 different engines |
| Searchbots | is a 'build your own' resource |
| Searchdazzle | puts 4 engines on one page. Messy! |
| Searchhippo | is another multisearch engine that doesn't excite me |
| SearchLion | covers Web, images, news, video, blogs, twitter. Nice and easy, with a nice blended approach. |
| SearchLoupe | is a pay for position category type search engine. |
| SearchMedia | is a UK medical search engine for professionals |
| Searchthenet | is a multisearch engine - 20 engines offered |
| SearchtheWeb | is a directory engine which fails to impress |
| Searchzooka | allows for complex searches across 7 different engines. Worth a look. |
| Select Surf | selects the best sites the web has to offer, apparently |
| Sency | for real time, what's happening this moment information |
| Similar-site | finds similar sites to that which you provide |
| Similarsites | finds similar sites to that which you provide |
| Similicio.us | finds similar sites to that which you provide |
| Simploos | The method of displaying webpages is by horizontal scrolling, with an automatic sliding to make it simple to the searchers. |
| Silobreaker | is the #1 news site out there, bar none |
| Siteslike | is a find similar sites engine |
| SlideFinder | searches for Powerpoint presentations |
| Slider | is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ |
| SmartLinks | provides quick links in a directory structure |
| SnapBird | for Twitter searching |
| Snappyfingers | is a Q&A database, searching FAQs. |
| Soovle | for Google, Wikipedia, Answers, YouTube, Ask, Yahoo, Amazon |
| Spacetime 3D | looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine |
| Spezify | for multisearch visual results |
| Sproose | search and recommend social search engine |
| Stilltasty | is a food date/edibility search engine |
| Surchur | for real time search |
| Surfcanyon | is a general engine |
| Sunsteam | is a directory engine, now 10 years old |
| Sweetsearch | evaluated sources designed for students |
| Synonyms net | is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource |
| Technorati | for blog search |
| The Net 1 | is a directory engine |
| Thunderstone | is a website catalog, directory based engine |
| Tinker | for real time serach didn't impress me in the slightest |
| TopSite | Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject |
| Trooker | is a great video search engine resource |
| Turboscout | is an excellent multi search engine |
| Tweepsearch | for Twitter biography searching |
| Twurdy | checks for readability in search results |
| USZip | provides excellent factual information on US zip code locations. |
| WebBrain | is a human created set of search resources |
| WebCrawler | is a meta engine for GYAB |
| Webkruz | is a visual search engine |
| WebNocular | It's your bog standard web search engine, which covers web, image, video, news, blogs, wikis, childrens and so on. |
| Web-Search | is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources |
| WebWorld | for quality sites on the web, in a directory style |
| Whozat | is the people search engine |
| Wolfram Alpha | is a computational search engine; good but different! |
| Wozzon | is a UK events search engine. Works well |
| WWW Virtual Library | for directory listing of virtual libraries |
| Xaphoo | is a multi search engine but not exciting |
| Yabigo | searches Yahoo, Bing and Google |
| Yahoo | needs no introduction either |
| Yahoo | for kids safe search |
| Yelbol | is a knowledge based (smart) search |
| Yippy | was Clusty. 'Family friendly'. Well... |
| Yohogo | is a multi search engine, but nothing special |
| Yometa | takes the results from Google, Yahoo and Bing and displays them in a Venn diagram |
| YouTube | is for videos, but you knew that already |
| Zakta | is a personalised search engine resource |
| Zanran | helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web. |
| Zapmeta | searches all the major engines |
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