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This page links to a variety of search engines. They include basic search engines, metasearch engines, search directories and both Australian and International search engines.
Search engines are the basic building blocks of searching the internet. Most use a single search engine. Some groups using a common search engine to power different search sites. Best known and most used is Google. It also has specific search engines to target areas such as Maps, Videos, News, Books, Earth, Scholar, … .
MetaSearch engines prove a more effecient search process. They work by using a variety of other search engines at the same time and give you one listing based on a combined result. One example is Dogpile.
The first search engines worked with directories, and a number still do. Best known is the Open Directory Project [DMOZ]. With search directories you start at very broad categories, then work down to narrower categories and sub-categories, e.g. Education - Distance Learning - Online Courses - Computers - Fee-Based. Some, such as DMOZ, are human rather than machine operated. Many sites use search directories such as DMOZ as their own search directory.
A small listing of portals provides the opportunity to find search engines not included on this page.
We have included some specific engines that are Australian and others specific to individual countries around the world.
Australian Search Engines
Australian [and New Zealand] sites recognised world wide. General and specialised sites.
- Access New Zealand
- Altavista Australia
Allows bulk searching. - Ansearch
Search Australia or The World. News, images, etc.. Links to other Ansearch country search engines. - Anzwers
Allows fine tuning. - Ask for Kids
Suited to children under 14. - Aussiedirectory
‘The Australian online web directory and search engine. Aussie Directory is a human edited, seo friendly, Australian internet directory providing safe, spam free indexed resources’. - AussieSeek
- Bing
Previously NineMSN, Live. - City Search
Major city information. - Domain
Housing. - Fossick
Australian and New Zealand Internet Resources. - Google Australia
- Mooter - Web Search
Personalise your search. - Rob’s Australian Search Engines
Single site with search engines, metasearches, directories, search portals, more. - Search66
Meta search engine. - Search New Zealand
- Sensis
Replaces Looksmart and Websearch. - WebWombat
- Yahoo Australia
International Search Engines
Besides English language and generic search engines, there are others in different languages and from different countries. Some are listed below. Most use the language of their home country and this is indicated.
- abcItaly [Italian]
- AllSearch
International Search Engines, Foreign Search Engines. Good collection. - Aport [Russian]
- Baidu [Chinese]
- Directory of Web Resources in Eastern Europe
Many countries. - European Search Engines
By country from Albania to Vatican City - EuroSeek [European]
Multilingual. - Fireball [German]
- Heuréka [Hungarian]
- Kagibi [French]
- Onet - Polski Portal [Polish]
- SearchDesk [Japanese]
- Tapuz [Israeli]
- Terra [Spanish]
- Web.De [German]
- Weblink - Linkgyüjtemény [Hungary]
- Welcome to Ayna [Arabic]
Also in English. - WideWeb.hu Hungarian Link Directory
‘Multilingual resources for non-Hungarian speakers about Hungary, Hungarians, the Hungarian web’. In English.
Search Engines
The most commonly used. Best used when after a specific response but you want a wide-ranging search. Hits normally presented as a list..
- All the Web
Now owned by Yahoo!. - Altavista
Now owned by Yahoo!. - Altavista Help Site
- Ask
Popular, expert, topic group links. - Bing
Microsoft’s latest search process. Web, images, videos, news, Bing Maps to which you can also add Bing Maps 3D, shopping, more. - Copernic
Also a desktop search engine . - DaGama
- DuckDuckGo
‘A new search engine with better results and less garbage. With less clicking forward and back between links, it is for anyone who wants to get information faster’.
Environmentally Friendly Search Engines
Designed to reduce the amount of energy used [may only be effective with CRT monitors because of the colours]. Uses Google custom search.
- Blackle
‘Created to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy’. - Jabago
‘Designed to reduce eye strain and save energy while conducting Google searches’. - Ninja
- Exalead
- Excite
Also access the Excite Help Site. - Fast
- Google
The most used and possibly the best.
- Google Books
Directories, full and part text. - Google Earth
‘3D interface to the planet’. Broadband required. - Google Earth Community
Bulletin board listing already existing earth& views you can use, store. - Google for Mac
- Google for Linux Software Repositories
- Google Help Centre
- Google Help Site : More Search Help
You can also find Basic Search Help at this site. - Google Language Tools
- Google Scholar Also access the Google Scholar Help Site.
- Google Services
- Google Talk
Talk to each other using Google. - Google Video
Share videos with each other using Google.
- Hakia
‘Focused on bringing quality results via its semantic search technology. Popular results are not always quality results, searchers suffer in many ways ranging from wasted search time to using misleading information’. - Lycos
- Mahalo
‘Human-powered search engine. Our search results only include great links’. More than just a search engine. - My Live Search
‘World’s first live search engine’. You need to add a plug-in for IE or Firefox for this to operate. Looks interesting.
Natural Language Search Engines
- Lexxe
‘A third generation Internet search engine with advanced Natural Language Processing technologies’. - True Knowledge
‘The world’s first AI question-answering platform’.
- Raging [Altavista]
- SEARCHzooka
‘SEARCHzooka provides a one-stop organising/bookmarking tool for all your advanced Internet searches. By saving your commonly-used searches, you can save time and effort by launching searches at the click of a button rather than typing and retyping the same searches’. - Secret Search Engine LabsBETA
‘Alternative search results - Giving the little site a chance’. - Snap
‘While Snap isn’t complicated, it is a different way of searching’. - Soople
‘Soople is an early English dialect, which means ‘to soften, make supple’. That’s exactly what I envisioned for this site; a site that softens all the fantastic advanced functions Google offers’. - Surfwax
- Top Search Engines
Opens to show their Top Search Engine page, where you access the latest listing. Some interesting inclusions. - Turboscout
Access the best engines without having to retype your query. - Twurdy
‘Twurdy’s goal is to provide web searchers with information that is most appropriate for them. This will mean that 10 year olds doing school assignments don’t have to click through difficult material to find something they can use. It will also mean that PhD students do not have to click through websites designed for kids in order to find what they are looking for’. - Wikia Answers
‘Enables communities to create, share and discover content on any topic in any language’. - Wisenut
Bare bones search engine. - Yahoo Australia
Also access Yahoo [Australia] Help Central. - Yahoo ! Search
Also access Yahoo ! Shortcuts, features designed to find answers quickly.
Search Directories
Consist of websites organised in directories and sub-directories, listed in hierarchies. Can be used to narrow your search to a specific area..
- About
- Answers
Multi-directory search engine. - Ask.com
- Alexa Web Search
Web directories. - Biotechnology Information Directory
- Digital Librarian
‘A librarian’s choice of the best of the Web’. - DMOZ - Open Directory Project
- GeniusFind
‘Geniusfind is a directory of thousands of search engines, databases, and archives organized into convenient categories and subcategories’. - GoGuides.Org Directory & Search
- Hitch Hikers Guide to the Internet
- Intute
- ISYS 8
Multi-faceted search suite. - JoeAnt
- Librarians’ Index to the Internet [IPL2]
The merger of IPL and Lii. - PINAKES, A Subject Launchpad
Gateway to directories. - RingSurf
Subject rings, directories. - Super Searcher’s Web Pages
Subject specific resources. - The Internet Oracle
- Virtual Reference Shelf [Library of Congress]
Directories, practical material. - WebRing
Web directories. - Welcome to Net-Trace
MetaSearch Engines
Access multiple search engines through one search. They provide broad searches. Many list results in priority order.
- Better Brain’s Metasearch
- Dogpile
- Fazzle
- FirstStop WebSearch Free
‘An incredibly fast and easy to use software that uses multiple search engines to search a myriad of web sites simultaneously for a more comprehensive Internet experience’. Downloadable software. - Gigablast
- Ixquick
Probably the best. Check their Help Site. - KartOO Visual Meta Search Engine
Very good ‘interlinked’ sets of responses to queries. Allow for further searching. - Langenberg
‘Search and Get There Faster’. - Mamma
‘The Mother of All Search Engines®’. - Metacrawler
- PolyCola
- Power Search
- Quick Browse
Single result page. - Search.com
- SearchWolf
- The Info Com
Metasearches of specialised engines. - Vivisimo
- VROOSH ! [Canadian]
Metacrawler, webcrawler. - Webcrawler
- WebFerret
- Wormhole to the Rest of the Internet
Not one engine, but access to a range of engines. Metasearches, specialist searches, more. -
Yippy
‘Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking. Instead of delivering millions of search results in one long list, our search engine groups similar results together into clouds. Clouds help you see your search results by topic’.
Formerly known and listed as Clusty.
Finding Search Engines
These provide help in finding search engines. The first is probably the best.
- 1-Hit
Annotated links to other directories of search engines, as well as advice, information and more. - All Search Engines
- Find Spot
- FinderSeeker
- List of Search Engines
By content, topic, information type, model, based on … , references, links. From Wikipedia. - Pandia
All about Search Engines, Searching, Ranking, Optimisation. - Search Engine Colossus
Engines from 149 countries. - Search Engine Guide
1 000s of engines. - Search Engine Links
Collections based on geographical areas as well as several other topics. - Search Engines : Refdesk.com
- Search Engines & Specialised Directories
Listings under either education or non-education topics. - Search Engines Worldwide
From more than 100 countries. - Special Search Engines
- The Big Hub
- The Invisible Web
10 000+ in categories. - The Search Engine List
Alphabetical Index or by types.