ABC Search engine - every search
starts with ABC
About for guidance, not guesswork
Acronym finder - for over 750,000
human edited definitions
Ajaxwhois is a great for site statistics
searches
Alexa is good for finding information on the
top 100k sites
AllPlus - meta search and discovery engine
AlltheWeb - part of the Yahoo family
AltaVista is still out there, still
doing a good job
Answers is the world's leading Q&A site
AOL Search no, I didn't think it
was still going, but it is
Ask (Jeeves) still limping along,
shadow of its former self
Ask if you want the US/global version
Azoos is the brightest yellow search engine
out there
Backtype for realtime conversational
search
Beaucoup has been around a while, but
doesn't impress me
Behold for flickr images
Betterwhois gets you good accurate
information on domains
Blindsearch to compare results of
major engines
Blinkx is a video search engine, with 35
million hours of it!
Browsys is a multi search engine
ChaCha allows you get other people to help
with your search
Collarity for personalised searching
across different types of data
Collecta for real time search
CompletePlant for 70k of searchable
databases. Good for deep web
Country search engines is my
list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries
Definitions is good for thousands of
definitions
Deepdyve for deep web searching
Digital Librarian; a librarian's
choice of the best of the web
DMOZ for a hierarchical directory, old but
still good
Dogpile for multisearch of Google, Yahoo,
Ask & Bing (GYAB)
Dooblet finds alternatives for you
Draze to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing
DuckDuckGo is a family safe engine
eBingBong is another
social search engine
Entireweb is a freetext search engine
Exalead is an excellent alternative
to Google
Excite is there, but does anyone use it any
more?
Factbites where results make sense
Factery Labs finds facts on trending
subjects
FaganFinder is a superb collection of
search resources
Favitt multisearch with option to add your own
sites
Fefoo multi search engine with access to 250+
search engines
Findanyfilm available in the UK
in any format
FindSounds for sound effects
FinQoo is an underwhelming meta search
engine
Freesearch is a UK based search
resource
Galaxy is a directory based search engine
Google doesn't need any words from me
Great PDF search engine - does exactly that -
PDF search
healia is an excellent medical search
engine
Hotbot is a blast from the past and that's
about all
Hunch is a decision engine, which works very
well indeed
iBoogie is a clustering meta search engine
Icerocket has RSS feed options and is a
good alternative
IllumiRate lights your way through the
web. Apparently.
Infomine for scholarly data, and is
excellent
Info Service is quirky and very colourful. Odd
directory though
Internet Archive to see all those
old pages!
Intute for academic resources. First
class service
Irazoo search, win gift cards. I want to
search, not win $5
Iseek is a clustering search
engine; very good too
Ixquick is an excellent metasearch engine
Jux2 compares Google, Yahoo and Bing results.
Very useful
KidsClick is websearch for children by
librarians
KidRex is another children's safe search
engine
Kngine styles itself as a Web 3 semantic
web search engine
Letzfind framed multi search engine. Lots
of resources
Librarians' Internet Index is a brilliant resource
LocateTV find shows, actors and movies
Lyrics is a great search engine to find
those song lyrics. V. Good.
Lycos is still out there, but getting old and
creaky
Macroglossa Visual search engine Upload
image, see what it finds
Mahalo for social search, human created
information resources
Mamma is the mother of all meta search
engines
Melzoo results on the left,
fullscreen page on the right pane
MetaCrawler is a meta search
engine
Middlespot is a visual search
engine
Monstercrawler for a GYAB search
Navisso is a search engine that doesn't push
official sites up
Newscred for credible news stories
Nobrandsearch Search 3 engines
blindtesting. Which is best?
OAIster for academic material that's
otherwise hard to find
OmniMedicalSearch is a top notch
medical search engine
OneRiot for realtime search
Online Casinos Arranged by location,
type, games, reviews etc
Oxysearch is a multi search engine for
GYAB and Pixsy
Panabee for comparing results from
different search engines
Pepesearch for freetext and directory
search. Not impressed
Phrases.net for common phrases, casual
expressions and idioms
Pinakes is a
superb collection of virtual libraries
Pokersites is the premier guide to the
best online poker sites
PolyMeta
is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine
Questfinder is a selective web
directory
Quotes.net for famous and not so famous
quotations
Quintura for visual search in a word/tag
cloud
Redz for visual search - an arch of webpage
thumbnails
References is a good source of
reference resources
Re-QUEST is a directory based engine
Rhymes.net is an excellent search engine
for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as
well.
Scandoo checks for authority of the
results it returns
Scirus for scientific data - great
for academic use
Scoopler for real time search
Scour to search socially, see community
votes and comments
Searchbug for people and company search
in the US
Search is a multi search engine. Not
stunned by it
Searchboth lets you compare results for
9 different engines
Searchbots is a 'build your own'
resource
Searchdazzle puts 4 engines on one
page. Messy!
Searchhippo is another multisearch
engine that doesn't excite me
SearchMedia is a UK
medical search engine for professionals
Searchthenet is a multisearch engine -
20 engines offered
SearchtheWeb is a directory
engine which fails to impress
Select Surf selects the best sites the
web has to offer, apparently
Sency for real time, what's happening this
moment information
Similar-site finds similar sites to that
which you provide
Similarsites finds similar sites to
that which you provide
Similicio.us finds similar sites to that
which you provide
Silobreaker is the #1 news site out
there, bar none
Siteslike is a find similar sites engine
SlideFinder searches for Powerpoint
presentations
Slider is a full text search engine that
searches DMOZ
SmartLinks provides quick links in a
directory structure
SnapBird for Twitter searching
Spacetime 3D looks very similar to
Redz; visual search engine
Spezify for multisearch visual results
Sproose search and recommend social search
engine
Stilltasty is a food date/edibility
search engine
Struly is a very neat multi search engine
Surchur for real time search
Sunsteam is a directory engine, now 10
years old
Sweetsearch evaluated sources designed
for students
Synonyms net is the webs most
comprehensive synonym resource
Technorati for blog search
The Net 1 is a directory engine
Thunderstone is a
website catalog, directory based engine
Tinker for real time serach didn't impress
me in the slightest
TopSite Find the best 10 top websites for
almost any subject
Trooker is a great video search engine
resource
Turbo10 used to be a great hidden web engine,
now just freetext
Turboscout is an excellent multi search
engine
Tweepsearch for Twitter biography
searching
Twurdy checks for readability in
search results
WebBrain is a human created set of search
resources
WebCrawler is a meta engine for GYAB
Webkruz is a visual search engine
Web-Search is a multi search engine
that offers 18 resources
WebWorld for quality sites on the
web, in a directory style
Whozat is the people search engine
Wolfram Alpha is a computational
search engine; good but different!
Wozzon is a UK events search engine. Works well
WWW Virtual Library for directory listing of
virtual libraries
Xaphoo is a multi search engine but not
exciting
Yabigo searches Yahoo, Bing and Google
Yahoo needs no introduction either
Yahoo for kids safe search
Yelbol is a knowledge based (smart) search
Yohogo is a multi search engine, but
nothing special
YouTube is for videos, but you knew that
already
Zakta is a personalised search
engine resource
Zapmeta searches all the major engines