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About.com, use "guides"
who are volunteers who receive a share of About’s
advertising revenue. The guides are experts in their field
and provide useful content together with links to other
sites. Data is also provided by Inktomi. About.com results
also appear on Search.com.
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Sometimes called FAST
Search, this is one of the largest indexes on the web.
FAST's results are provided to many portals and sites,
including those run by Terra Lycos and also appear on
Search.com.
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AltaVista was one of
the first crawler type search engines having started in
December 1995. AltaVista offers image, audio and video
searching and advanced searching facilities. Directory
results are provided by Looksmart. AltaVista results also
appear on Search.com.
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With the large numbers
of people who use AOL as an ISP, AOL's search services
are highly significant. The main listings come from Google.
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Ask Jeeves is designed
so that users can ask questions in plain English. Results
from Teoma, which it owns are integrated.
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The search function
on the extremely popular BBC web site. Three types of
results are presented for a search under different tabs.
The first tab is results from BBC web sites. The second
tab is from BBC news. The third tab is from the web as
a whole with results coming from Google and supplemented
with BBCi recommended sites.
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The search function
on the BT Openworld site. Results come from LookSmart
UK and Wisenut.
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European pay per click
engine. Espotting’s results are displayed on Yahoo
UK, Lycos UK and Ask Jeeves UK, Looksmart UK and UK Plus
amongst others.
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A European-based search
engine which is powered by Google. Also offers a directory
powered by the Open Directory Project.
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One of the first crawler
type search engines starting in 1995, Excite is now owned
by Infospace and operates as a meta search engine drawing
results from FAST (All The Web), Ask Jeeves, Inktomi,
About, Looksmart and Overture and other sources
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The search function
of this ISP which is one of the largest in the UK. Search
results are provided by Google.
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Galaxy claims to be the
oldest searchable Internet directory. Its information
is compiled and organized by human Information Specialists
rather than by computer.
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Galaxy claims to be the
oldest searchable Internet directory. Its information
is compiled and organized by human Information Specialists
rather than by computer.
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Google is a search engine
that uses link popularity (Page Rank) amongst other techniques
to rank web sites. Google claims that this means that
sites with the most links to them have been effectively
endorsed by the sites that link to them and thus are more
popular and should be ranked higher. Google also offers
a Directory (powered by The Open Directory Project) and
image and Newsgroup searches. Google provides its data
to many other search engines including AOL, BBCi, Euroseek,
Freeserve, LookSmart UK, Netscape and Yahoo.
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Google is a search engine
that uses link popularity (Page Rank) amongst other techniques
to rank web sites. Google claims that this means that
sites with the most links to them have been effectively
endorsed by the sites that link to them and thus are more
popular and should be ranked higher. Google also offers
a Directory (powered by The Open Directory Project) and
image and Newsgroup searches. Google provides its data
to many other search engines including AOL, BBCi, Euroseek,
Freeserve, LookSmart UK, Netscape and Yahoo.
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LookSmart is a human-compiled
directory of web sites. LookSmart also provides directory
results to MSN, Excite and other search engines and directories.
Inktomi and Direct Hit also provides LookSmart with data.
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Lycos’s main listings
come from the FAST (All The Web). In 1998, Lycos acquired
HotBot which continues to be run separately.
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Mirago is a search engine
aimed specifically at UK businesses and families. As well
as indexing UK and Irish they also index International
sites which are of interest to residents of the British
Isles. Mirago offers the ability to ask plain English
questions.
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Microsoft's MSN Search
service is a directory of web sites produced by Looksmart
with results also from Inktomi.
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Netscape results come
primarily from Google. The Netscape portal also offers
the ability to search Ask Jeeves, Looksmart, Lycos or
Overture.
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The Open Directory Project
uses volunteer editors to catalogue the web. It was launched
in 1998 as NewHoo. It was acquired by Netscape in November
1998 when the company pledged that anyone would be able
to use information from the directory through an open
license agreement. A lot of search engines and directories
use Open Directory data including Euroseek, Google, Hotbot
and Splut.
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Formally known as GoTo,
Overture sells its main listings on a per click basis
which it says improves relevancy. The contrasting view
is that many sites of importance are not listed because
they refuse to pay for a listing. Non-paid results come
from Inktomi. Overture listings appear as “sponsored”
or “featured” sites on many search engines
and directories including AltaVista, Lycos, MSN, Netscape,
Search.com and Yahoo (Not Yahoo UK).
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Search.com is a meta search
engine operated by CNET. Results are drawn from About.com,
All The Web, AltaVista, Overture, Teoma and others.
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A fast and free directory
of UK web sites.Open Directory Project data is also used.
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The search function of
this popular ISP. Search results are provided by Looksmart
UK, and AllTheWeb.
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Directory that lists sites
based in the UK or that are relevant to UK users. Results
show when the link was last validated.
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UK Plus launched in 1997
as a directory featuring reviews of sites in the UK or
relevant to people in the UK. In 2002 BT Looksmart purchased
UK Plus and results now come from Looksmart UK.
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WebCrawler launched in
1994. AOL purchased WebCrawler in 1995 but sold it to
Excite in 1996. Excite continued to run WebCrawler as
a separate search engine until its demise. As with Excite,
WebCrawler is now owned by Infospace and operates as a
meta search engine drawing results from FAST (All The
Web), Ask Jeeves, Inktomi, About, Looksmart and Overture
and other sources
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whatUseek started as a
Web search index in 1995 and now operates as a meta search
engine.
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Yahoo is the oldest
major web site directory, having launched in late 1994
and is considered by many to be the most popular search
service Yahoo is compiled by human editors and this means
that it is relatively small compared to other databases.
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