Search Engines

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Meta-search Engines

• Yahoo
  Advanced search engine competitive to Google. Indexes billions of web pages, millions of FTP, PDF and MS Word files.
• Google
  Ranked #1 in an independent survey. Delivers most relevant search results, first and fast.
• MetaCrawler
  Keyword searching. Allows searches to be sent to several search engines at the same time. A favorite at the Supreme Court Law Library.
• SurfWax
  Powerful, focused search of major search engines.

General Internet Search Engines

• AltaVista
  Provides keyword searching. Comprehensive, good for power users.
• Excite
  Allows for keyword and concept searching.
• Hotbot
  Keyword searching. Allows for very precise queries.
• Lycos
  Fast, easy and efficient way to make sense of the Internet and manage its vast resources.
• Ask
  Uses "Subject-Specific Popularity" searching.
• Vivisimo
  Search the Web using their document clustering technology.