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GENERIC WEB SEARCH ENGINES

Each search engine has different capabilities and search strategies. The following website lists and analyzes the major search engines.: http://www.searchenginewatch.com. This site provides search engine information to webmasters and Web searchers. Among other features, it evaluates the major search engines, provides links, explains the relationship of search engines to directories, includes tutorials, and produces a monthly report.

Generic Web Search Engines
AltaVista	http://www.Altavista.com	Search engine.
Dogpile	http://www.dogpile.com	Engine that queries multiple search engines in addition to usenet groups, FTP (file transfer protocol) sites, and news wires.
Excite	http://www.excite.com	Search engine.
Google	http://www.google.com	Search engine.
Hotbot	http://HotBot.lycos.com	Search engine.
Lycos	http://www.lycos.com	Search engine.
Metacrawler	http://www.metacrawler.com/	One of the fastest and most useful meta-search tools on the Internet.
Northern Light	http://www.northernlight.com/	Premier search engine that searches the Internet and premium sites on the Internet at one time. Some collections are available only by subscription.
Profusion	http://www.profusion.com	Meta-search site.
Webcrawler	http://www.webcrawler.com	Search engine.
Yahoo!	http://www.yahoo.com	Search engine.

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