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| Alta Vista | Find pages that contain a specified Java applet, to find pages within the specified domain, or search for pages with images having a specific filename, or just specified text. Alta Vista also offers free email. | General search engine. Also does multimedia search, translation & language recognition, and specialty search. |
| Ask Jeeves | Search with keywords or with questions. | Meta search engine. |
| Chubba | Specify web pages, directory, dictionary, encyclopedia, or weathre | Meta search engine. |
| DogPile | Searches Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, LookSmart, Overture, FindWhat. Can search Web Pages, Images, Audio, Multimedia, News, Shopping. | Meta search engine. Will keep track of your last 15 searches. |
| Excite | Personalize your page; save your links, search yellow/white pages, web pages, or various categories; plug in and track your stocks and favorite sports teams; free email, chat, discussion boards; read news, weather, horoscope | Search portal. Health news on Excite. |
| In addition to providing easy access to more than 8 billion web pages, Google has integrated special features into Google WebSearch to help people find exactly what they are looking for on the web. | General search engine. More about Google. |
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| Google Scholar | Google Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web. | General search engine. Beta version |
| HotBot | HotBot searches using Ask Jeeves, HotBot, or Google. You can also add custom web filers. | General search engine. Personalize your HotBot experience by choosing your own skin. |
| Lycos | Search the web, shopping, news, pictures. Advanced search filters include URL, language, word, catalog. | General search engine. |
| Mamma | The mother of all search engines-simultaneously searches a variety of engines, directories, and deep content sites, properly formats the words and syntax for each, compiles their results in a virtual database, eliminates duplicates, and displays them in a uniform manner according to relevance. | Meta search engine. |
| MedHunt | MedHunt is a part of Health On the Net. An international initiative, Health On the Net Foundation (HON) is a non-profit organisation, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. The Foundation is dedicated to realising the benefits of the Internet and related technologies in the fields of medicine and healthcare. | Medical search engine. |
| MetaCrawler | Uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more. | Meta search engine. How it works. |
| Profusion | Select one or more of the search sources: Alta Vista, About, AOL, Lycos, Raging Search, Wise Nut, MetaCrawler, MSN, Adobe PDF, LookSmart, Netscape, Teoma, All the web. | Meta search engine. |
| Search.com | Search.com searches Google, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and dozens of other leading search engines to bring you the best results. | Meta search engine. |
| Yahoo | Personalize your page. Yahoo is indexed by real people so expect less hits but probably more relevant information. They group their indexed pages into categories so you can search that way. You can search in Chinese, French, German, Italian, and many other languages. This site also offers free email. | Search portal. |
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