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WorldLII >> Categories >> Research >> Search Engines

These Search Engines and Directories are not law-specific

• AlltheWeb [Search]
• Alta Vista [Search]
  directory listings come from Open Directory and Look Smart; human answers to searches come from Ask Jeeves,
• AOL Search
  uses Open Directory catalog and Inktomi search engine
• Ask [Search]
  Formerly known as AskJeeves
• Excite [Search]
• Go.com [Search]
  Infoseek/Disney portal with human-compiled directory of web sites
• Google [Search]
  Search engine using link popularity to rank web sites achieving high relevancy
• HotBot
• Lycos
  uses a directory model like Yahoo's, taking results from Open Directory, FAST Search and Direct Hit
• MSN Search
  Microsoft service, using LookSmart directory of websites and some results from Inktomi, RealNames, and Direct Hit
• Netscape Search [Search]
  directory listings come mainly from Open Directory and search results from Google
• Northern Light
  search engine with large index including access to free and fee based material
• Open Directory
  uses volunteers to catalog the web and has open licence agreements with Netscape, Lycos and AOL Search, also used by HotBot and AltaVista
• Search AllinOne MetaSearch [Search]
  Metasearch engine with grouping of results into categories
• Search Engine Watch
  Technical information about the capacity and performance of internet-wide search engines.
• Search.com [Search]
• WebCrawler
  a separate search engine owned by Excite but with a smaller index
• Yahoo
  largest human-compiled idnex to the web supplemented by results from Google