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With so many search engines available, how do you know which one is right for you? To help sort them out, either (or both) of these sites can help:
Search Engine Showdown
Search Engine Watch
AltaVista
With millions of pages in its index, this well-respected engine from CMGI always gets results.
Excite
While it has an engine to search millions of Web pages, it also provides site reviews of varying subject matter (including small business).
FAST
Promising you “all the Web, all the time.”
Google
Unique search engine that is rapidly becoming the engine of choice amongst the digerati.
Go/Infoseek
A portal site produced by Disney and ABC.
HotBot
One of many features from the people behind Wired magazine.
Lycos
Spin through the Web using the power of their patented spider technology.
Yahoo!
The most famous Internet directory uses a staff of humans to select the sites it offers.
METASEARCH ENGINES
(Web sites that search several search engines at once)
Dogpile
One can conduct a search over a variety of engines, as well as Usenet groups and/or a host of online news services.
Ixquick Metasearch
A unique search protocol that tells you how your search would rate amongst 14 major search engines.
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