Search Engines

So which Search Engine do you use? Some of the top Search Engines are shown below, have a go at some of them and decide for yourself which one is best for you. Make your favourite Search Engine your home page as you're bound to start surfing from that page.

Search Engine Tips

Always type your text in lower case. Use as many words as you can. Searching on a single word will return thousands, or even millions of pages. To look for a phrase or title put it in quotation marks. You get better results the more specific your search is, although not all engines support this. Use wildcards if you're not sure of the spelling, so spec* will look for words beginning with 'spec' such as Species, Spectacles. Likewise to? will locate tom and toe.

Useful Sites

Search Engine Guide Directory of thousands of speciality search engines. Search Engine Watch Tips on Search Engines and search engine submission. Search Power Search Engine directory with over 16000 search engines. Top 50 Top 50 web sites in UK from hits. Free Find Add a Search Engine to your website to search the site. Picosearch Add a Fee Search Engine to your website to search the site. The Free Site Locate Free Stuff on the Web.

Search Engine Sites

About Each site on about.com is run by a professional Guide who is carefully screened and trained by About. Guides build a comprehensive environment around each of their specific topics, including the best new content, relevant links, How-To's, Forums, and answers to just about any question. The About network consists of over 700 Guide sites neatly organised into 36 channels. The sites cover more than 50,000 subjects with over 1 million links to the best resources on the Net and the fastest-growing archive of high quality original content. Topics range from pregnancy to cars, palm pilots to painting, weight loss to video game strategies. AllTheWeb Search web pages, files and multimedia from one place. Altavista One of the top Search Engines on the Web. Ask Jeeves Rather than searching for a phrase ask jeeves relies on you enter a question such as "Where can I find information on ..." Deja Now Acquired by Google with access to over 500 million news group messages. Google are still in the process of restoring the service to allow access to all messages. Direct Hit Search engine where details are gleamed from what people search for on the Web. Dogpile Search Engine that uses Metasearch to retrieve results that match your query. Dmoz The Open Directory Project's goal is to produce the most comprehensive directory of the web, by relying on a vast army of volunteer editors. Excite Search Engine. Google One of the best Search Engines around. HotBot Since its launch in 1996, HotBot has been named the Number One search site on the Web in independent reviews from the top consumer-oriented computer and personal-finance publications in the United States. HotBot has been awarded top honors such as "best search site on the Web" by SmartMoney, PC Magazine, PC Computing, PC World, New Media, and CNET for its sophisticated search features and easy-to-use interface. HotBot has garnered these awards by offering Web users one of the most comprehensive and up-to-date "snapshots" of the Web currently available. HotBot indexes every word, link, and media file on more than 160 million Web documents and refreshes its entire database of documents every three to four weeks. It also allows users to construct sophisticated search queries of its index without previous knowledge of complex search terms and methodologies. Instead, HotBot offers users a simple, point-and-click interface, intuitive pulldown menus, and the ability to use plain English terminology for constructing searches. Lycos Search Engine. Lycos Download Download stuff from Lycos. Mamma 'The Mother of all Search Engines' - so it says !. Metacrawler Search Engine that utilises the following search engines: AltaVista, DirectHit, Excite, FindWhat.com, Google, GoTo.com, Internet Keywords, Kanoodle, LookSmart, Lycos, MetaCatalog, Sprinks by About, Webcrawler. Northern Light Search Engine. Oingo A Meaning-Based Search is powered by the Oingo Ontology, a highly detailed database of over 1,000,000 words and meanings, linked by millions of relationships in a semantic network that is constantly changing to reflect the currency of everyday language. Once a query is submitted, our interpretative algorithm parses it and the output is filtered to derive the optimal result. So what does that mean? Top UK Web Sites Top UK web sites listed by category. UK Plus Primarily British Web Sites reviewed and categorised by editors. Web 100 Top 100 Web Sites, mostly American. Web Crawler Search Engine. Webopedia Dictionary and Search Engine for computer and Internet Technology. Web Top Search Engine including "Zones" which help refine your search. Who Where Find people on the Net. Yahoo One of the first Search Engines.