Search Engines and Web Directories
search engine - a program that indexes documents, then attempts to match documents relevant to the users search requests.
metasearch engine - a search engine that displays results from multiple search engines.
portal - a site featuring a suite of commonly used services, serving as a starting point and frequent gateway to the Web (Web portal) or a niche topic (vertical portal).
Web directory - organized, categorized listings of Web sites.
AltaVista - search engine located at www.altavista.com
Ask Jeeves - metasearch engine located at www.askjeeves.com
DogPile - metasearch engine located at www.dogpile.com
Excite - portal located at www.excite.com
Fast Search - search syndication company located at www.fastsearch.com and www.fast.no -- also powers the search engine located at www.alltheweb.com.
Go Network - defunct portal located at www.go.com
Google - search engine located at www.google.com
Goto - pay per click search engine that changed names and is now located at www.overture.com
Inktomi - search syndication company located at www.inktomi.com
Ixquick - metasearch engine located at www.ixquick.com
Looksmart - Web directory located at www.looksmart.com
Mamma - metasearch engine located at www.mamma.com
MSN Search - search destination at search.msn.com
Northern Light Search - search engine located at www.northernlight.com
Raging Search - search engine located at www.raging.com
Yahoo - portal located at www.yahoo.com
Zworks - metasearch engine located at www.zworks.com
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