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Search Engines:
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| Year | Engine | Event |
| 1993 | Aliweb | Launch |
| 1994 | WebCrawler | Launch |
| Infoseek | Launch | |
| Lycos | Launch | |
| 1995 | AltaVista | Launch (part of DEC) |
| Excite | Launch | |
| 1996 | Dogpile | Launch |
| Inktomi | Founded | |
| Ask Jeeves | Founded | |
| 1997 | Northern Light | Launch |
| 1998 | Launch | |
| 1999 | AlltheWeb | Launch |
| Naver | Launch | |
| Teoma | Founded | |
| Vivisimo | Founded | |
| 2000 | Baidu | Founded |
| 2003 | Info.com | Launch |
| 2004 | Yahoo! Search | Final launch |
| 2005 | MSN Search | Final launch |
| Ask.com | Launch | |
| AskMeNow | Launch | |
| 2006 | wikiseek | Founded |
| Quaero | Founded | |
| Ask.com | Launch | |
| Windows Live Search | Launch | |
| ChaCha | Beta Launch | |
| Quintura | Beta Launch | |
| 2007 | wikiseek | Launched |
| Tokenizer | Launched | |
Major Search Engines and Directories
Metacrawlers and Metasearch Engines
Pay Per Click Search Engines (CPC/PPC)
Multimedia Search Engines: Image, Audio & Video Searching
| Meta-Search Tool | What's Searched (As of date at bottom of page. They change often.) | Complex Search Ability | Results Display |
| Clusty | Currently searches a number of free, search engines and directories, not Google or Yahoo. | Accepts and "translates" complex searches with Boolean operators and field limiting. | Results accompanied with subject subdivisions based on words in search results, giving usually the major themes (Vivisimo Clustering Engine™). Click on these to search within results on each theme. |
| Dogpile www.dogpile.com | Searches Google, Yahoo, LookSmart, AskJeeves/Teoma, Google ADS, MSN search. Sites that have purchased ranking and inclusion are blended in. Watch for Sponsored by... links below search results. | Accepts Boolean logic, especially in advanced search modes. | |
Meta-Search Engines for SERIOUS Deep Digging
| Meta-Search Tool | What's Searched (As of date at bottom of page. They change often.) | Complex Search Ability | Results Display |
| SurfWax www.surfwax.com | A better than average set of search engines. Can mix with educational, US Govt tools, and news sources, or many other categories. | Accepts " ", +/-. Default is AND between words. I recommend fairly simple searches, allowing SurfWax's SiteSnaps and other features to help you dig deeply into results. | Click on source link to view complete search results there. Click on  to view helpful "SiteSnap™" extracted from most sites in frame on right.Many additional features for probing within a site. |
| Copernic Agent www.copernic.com | Select from list of search engines by clicking the Properties button following Advanced Search search box. | ALL, ANY, Phrase, and more. Also Boolean searching within results under Refine (powerful!). | Must be downloaded and installed, but Basic version is free of charge. Table comparing versions. |
Search Engine Statistics:________________________
Data from search engine analysis run on Dec. 31, 2002.
by Greg R. Notess.
+ Google Solidly in Lead
+ AlltheWeb Moves Back to 2nd
+ AltaVista Up to 3rd
This size showdown compared nine search engines, with MSN Search and HotBot representing the Inktomi database. This analysis used 25 small single word queries. Google found more total hits than any other search engine. In addition, it placed first on 25 of the 25 searches, more than any of the others and the first time that any search engine placed first on every single search. AlltheWeb moved back into second place with significant growth since March. AltaVista also had significant growth and moved up to third. WiseNut dropped to fourth and HotBot is up to fifth. Despite sharing an Inktomi source, HotBot found more than MSN and included PDF files not available from MSN. Note that the number given in the chart reflects only the number of Web pages found, not the total number of results. For those, see the table below.
The following chart gives the total verified number of search results (including Web pages, PDFs, other file types, and even Google's unindexed URLs) from all 25 searches. Since the exact same queries were used in March 2002 and August 2001, the other columns gives previous totals.
Search Engine | Total from | Total from | Total from | ||||
9,732 | 8,371 | 6,567 | |||||
AlltheWeb | 6,757 | 4,388 | 4,969 | ||||
AltaVista | 5,419 | 3,432 | 3,112 | ||||
WiseNut | 4,664 | 5,009 | 4,587 | ||||
HotBot | 3,680 | 2,869 | 3,277 | ||||
MSN Search | 3,267 | 2,523 | 3,005 | ||||
Teoma | 3,259 | 1,839 | 2,219 | ||||
NLResearch | 2,352 | 3,610 | 3,321 | ||||
Gigablast | 2,352 | NA | NA |
| Web | PDFs | Other Files | Unindexed | |
| 8565 | 1008 | 159 | 47 | |
| AlltheWeb | 6133 | 591 | 33 | |
| AltaVista | 4977 | 442 | ||
| HotBot | 3529 | 151 |
AlltheWeb uses the Fast database, as does Lycos. The AllTheWeb advanced search with site clustering and offensive content filter turned off was used for this comparison, but the results are almost exactly the same on Lycos.
AltaVista showed an increase since August, a pleasant change for the struggling search engine. Since AltaVista clusters results, this analysis used the Advanced Search with the option set so that results were not clustered by site. Each search result set was checked and only the number of hits available for display was counted.
WiseNut claims over 1.5 billion records. While it clusters by site, that feature was turned off via the preferences for this comparison. WiseNut has grown since the August comparison. Only 300 results could be displayed, so on the three searches where a higher number was reported, the reported number was used.
HotBot now offers access to four databases, but only its Inktomi database was used for this comparison. In comparing the numbers and results to a direct Inktomi interface available to members of the press, I got the exact same numbers, so I assume that HotBot is now using Inktomi's fullest and most current databases. It also found some of the new PDF documents being included. And compared to MSN Search, HotBot's Inktomi database found more.
MSN Search uses an Inktomi database. While MSN Search will retrieve results from LookSmart, only Inktomi results were counted. The advanced search was used for this comparison, and for those searches which pulled up more than 200 results (MSN's display limit), the total number was figured by segmenting the results by adding an additional term, and then excluding the same term, and then totaling the results. MSN had a significant drop in the number of results found since August 2001.
Teoma showed significant improvement. even though no free submission to the Teoma database is available (only paid submission and crawling). They cluster results by site and usually only show two per domain with no way to uncluster the results. The other hits may only be available via a [More results from . . .] link. Though tedious, I did count all those to give Teoma a fair representation.
Northern Light announced in January 2001 that it "will no longer be providing free Web search capabilities to the general public." While the free Web search at northernlight.com is gone, it is still available at NLResearch.com. That version was used for this comparison. Since Northern Light automatically recognizes and searches the English-form of word variants and plurals, only non plural terms are used. Only the Web portion of Northern Light was searched, not their Special Collection. Northern Light also clusters hits by site with no ability to disable the site clustering. The number of reported hits was used, rather than trying to verify the number under each site. Northern Light is typically fairly accurate in its counts and presents both the total number of hits and the number of sites. Not surprisingly, they showed a significant decrease since March.
Gigablast is a new search engine that 149,926,496 records in its database on the search date. While it is a significant number, especially when compared to the number of records in most search engine databases in 2000, in today's market, it is considerably smaller than all the others. But it is well worth watching for the future.
Search Engines:
- Adult SEs
- Arts & Humanities SEs
- Book SEs
- Business SEs
- Career & Job SEs
- Education SEs
- Entertainment SEs
- Foreign SEs
- Games SEs
- Government & Politics SEs
- Health & Medicine SEs
- Image & Sound SEs
- Kids SEs
- Legal SEs
- Library SEs
- Maps & Directions SEs
- Music and MP3 SEs
- News & Weather SEs
- People SEs
- Reference SEs
- Regional US & Canada SEs
- Science & Technology SEs
- Shopping SEs
- Site Award & Best of Web SEs
- Software & Computer SEs
- Sports & Recreation SEs
- Travel SEs
- Web & Online SEs
When you click one of these Express Buttons on a country or category page, you will immediately be transferred to the first French, Spanish, or German language search engine listed on that page.
"Fingers do the walking" Express Button transfers you to a country's Yellow Page Searchers' section.
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