untangling_the_web

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Search engines queried are Ask, Wisenut, Gigablast, and Entireweb (a serious
misnomer) and directories queried are Open Directory, About, Business.com, and
two pay-per-c1ick sources.
The Pandia Metasearch Engine
http://www.pandia.com/metasearch/index.html
The famed search guide site, Pandia, offers its .own excellent metasearch engine.
The Pandia metasearch engine "collects and sorts the hits, takes out duplicates, and
presents the end result in a simple format. "The first results you'll see are from what
Pandia describes as the "essential search engines and directories," which include
Google, Yahoo, HotBot and Wisenut. Strangely, Pandia continues to list AlltheWeb
(Fast) and AltaVista as search engines while they acknowledge at other places on
their site that Yahoo subsumed both engines. Still, this is a very good metasearch
site.
More metasearch sites:
Ithaki
IxQuick
Metacrawler
.Search.com
Surfwax
http://www.ithaki.net/indexu.htm
http://www.ixquick.com/
http://www.metacrawler.com/
http://www.search.com/
http://www.surfwax.com/
Open Directory's List of Metasearch Sites
http://dmoz.org/Computers/I nternetiSearching/Metasearch/
Megasearch Sites
Megasearch sites simply store several search engines under one roof, but you have
to do the searches one search engine at a time. They are becoming more
sophisticated and better as time passes, serving as good entry points for finding and
evaluating search engines. They are especially useful for locating international
search engines.
All Search Engines
Find It Quick
Search-22
SearchEzee
http://www.allsearchengines.com/
http://www.quickfindit.com/Search Engines/
http://www.search-22.com/
http://www.searchezee.com/search.shtml
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