Gavilan Library

Internet Search Engines and Subject Directories
Search engines are automated programs (sometimes called spiders or bots) that crawl through the Web and index the pages they find, creating a database that they use to match your search terms.

•  AllTheWeb AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.
• Bing Bing is a search engine that finds and organizes the answers you need so you can make faster, more informed decisions.
•  Ask Ask.com strives to be the most intuitive, relevant & personalized search destination on the web.
•  Dogpile Dogpile was built to give users the best search results available on the Web. This is accomplished by searching all the most popular engines and retrieving the best combined results.
•  Google Google contains a subject directory, and image search and much more.
•  HotBot From the main search screen, you can also search using Yahoo. Use the advanced search screen for more powerful search feature.  For example, you can limit your search to only web pages that come from a university or college.
•  Ixquick Ixquick takes your query to several search tools at once, finds hits, and returns them to a single result list. Because it uses several engines, the searching refinements are limited to the lowest common denominator.

•     Mamma A globally popular meta-search engine, Mamma.com brings forth refined search results from the web’s top search engines; assisting users to efficiently find the information they seek online.
      Yahoo Yahoo is the web's oldest "directory" and contains web and image search and much more.
      Yippy Yippy queries several top search engines, combines the results, and generates an ordered list based on comparative ranking and then groups similar results together into 'clouds'. Clouds help you see your search results by topic.