Excite is one of the more popular search services on the web. It offers
a fairly large index and integrates non-web material such as company information
and sports scores into its results, when appropriate. Excite was launched
in late 1995
AltaVista is consistently one of the largest search engines on the web,
in terms of pages indexed. Its comprehensive coverage and wide range of
power searching commands makes it a particular favorite among researchers
AOL Search allows its members to search across the web and AOL's own content
from one place.
Lycos started out as a search engine, depending on listings that came
from spidering the web. In April 1999, it shifted to a directory model
similar to Yahoo
Overture / Goto Unlike the other major search engines, GoTo sells its
main listings. Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search
results, which GoTo feels improves relevancy. Non-paid results come from
Inktomi.
Microsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart-powered directory of web
sites, with secondary results that come from Inktomi.
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iWon Backed by US television network CBS, iWon has a directory of web
sites generated automatically by Google, which also provides its more
traditional crawler-based results.
Yahoo is the web's most popular search service and has a well-deserved
reputation for helping people find information easily. The secret to Yahoo's
success is human beings
HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching
features. In most cases, HotBot's first page of results comes from the
Direct Hit service, and then secondary results come from the Inktomi search
engine
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a
primary way to rank web sites.
Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's
own "Smart Browsing" database, which does an excellent job of listing
"official" web sites. Secondary results come from Google. At the Netscape
Netcenter portal site, other search engines are also featured.
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