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Major Search Engines
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. It is the largest human-compiled guide to the web, employing about
150 editors in an effort to categorize the web. Yahoo has over 1 million sites
listed. Yahoo also supplements its results with those from Google (beginning
in July 2000, when Google takes over from Inktomi). If a search fails to find
a match within Yahoo's own listings, then matches from Google are displayed.
Google matches also appear after all Yahoo matches have first been shown. Yahoo
is the oldest major web site directory, having launched in late 1994.
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AOL Search allows its members
to search across the web and AOL's own content from one place. The "external"
version, listed above, does not list AOL content. The main listings for categories
and web sites come from the Open Directory . Inktomi also provides crawler-based
results, as backup to the directory information. Before the launch of AOL Search
in October 1999, the AOL search service was Excite-powered AOL NetFind.
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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. Its main listings
come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from the
FAST Search engine. Some Direct Hit results are also used. In October 1998,
Lycos acquired the competing HotBot search service, which continues to be run
separately.
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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, which is also used by other services.
It gets its directory information from the Open Directory project . HotBot launched
in May 1996 as Wired Digital's entry into the search engine market. Lycos purchased
Wired Digital in October 1998 and continues to run HotBot as a separate search
service.
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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. It grew quickly
in prominence and consumed two of its competitors, Magellan in July 1996, and
WebCrawler in November 1996. These continue to run as separate services.
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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. It also offers a number of features designed
to appeal to basic users, such as "Ask AltaVista" results, which come from Ask
Jeeves (see below), and directory listings from the Open Directory and LookSmart.
AltaVista opened in December 1995. It was owned by Digital, then run by Compaq
(which purchased Digital in 1998), then spun off into a separate company which
is now controlled by CMGI.
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InfoSeek/Go is a portal site
produced by Infoseek and Disney. It offers portal features such as personalization
and free e-mail, plus the search capabilities of the former Infoseek search
service, which has now been folded into Go. Searchers will find that Go consistently
provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches, thanks
to its ESP search algorithm. It also has an impressive human-compiled directory
of web sites. Go officially launched in January 1999. It is not related to GoTo.
The former Infoseek service launched in early 1995. It is scheduled to be
closed at the end of February 2000.
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Microsoft's MSN Search
service is a LookSmart-powered directory of web sites, with secondary results
that come from Inktomi. RealNames and Direct Hit data is also made available.
MSN Search also offers a unique way for Internet Explorer 5 users to save past
searches.
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Direct Hit
measures what people click on in the search results presented at its own site
and at its partner sites, such as HotBot. Sites that get clicked on more than
others rise higher in Direct Hit's rankings. Thus, the service dubs itself a
"popularity engine." Aside from running its own web site, Direct Hit provides
the main results which appear at HotBot (see below) and is available as an option
to searchers at MSN Search. Direct Hit is owned by Ask Jeeves .
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The Open Directory uses
volunteer editors to catalog the web. Formerly known as NewHoo, it was launched
in June 1998. It was acquired by Netscape in November 1998, and the company
pledged that anyone would be able to use information from the directory through
an open license arrangement. Netscape itself was the first licensee. Lycos and
AOL Search also make heavy use of Open Directory data. more
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Google is a search engine
that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites.
This can be especially helpful in finding good sites in response to general
searches such as "cars" and "travel," because users across the web have in essence
voted for good sites by linking to them. The system works so well that Google
has gained wide-spread praise for its high relevancy. Google also has a huge
index of the web and provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search.
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Ask Jeeves is a human-powered
search service that aims to direct you to the exact page that answers your question.
If it fails to find a match within its own database, then it will provide matching
web pages from various search engines. The service went into beta in mid-April
1997 and opened fully on June 1, 1997. Some results from Ask Jeeves also appear
within AltaVista.
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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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LookSmart is a human-compiled
directory of web sites. In addition to being a stand-alone service, LookSmart
provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many other partners. Inktomi
provides LookSmart with search results when a search fails to find a match from
among LookSmart's reviews. LookSmart launched independently in October 1996,
was backed by Reader's Digest for about a year, and then company executives
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Originally, there was an Inktomi search
engine at UC Berkeley. The creators then formed their own company with the
same name and created a new Inktomi index, which was first used to power HotBot.
Now the Inktomi index also powers several other services. All of them tap into
the same index, though results may be slightly different. This is because Inktomi
provides ways for its partners to use a common index yet distinguish themselves.
There is no way to query the Inktomi index directly, as it is only made available
through Inktomi's partners with whatever filters and ranking tweaks they may
apply.
NBCi is a human-compiled
directory of web sites, supplemented by search results from Inktomi. Like LookSmart,
it aims to challenge Yahoo as the champion of categorizing the web. NBCi launched
in late 1997 and is backed by NBC. It was formerly known as Snap but had a name
change in late 2000.
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. GoTo launched in 1997 and incorporated the former
University of Colorado-based World Wide Web Worm. In February 1998, it shifted
to its current pay-for-placement model and soon after replaced the WWW Worm
with Inktomi for its non-paid listings. GoTo is not related to Go (Infoseek).
Paid listing from GoTo also appear on other major search engines, including
AltaVista, AOL Search, Lycos, HotBot and Netscape Search.
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Northern Light
is another favorite search engine among researchers. It features a large index
of the web, along with the ability to cluster documents by topic. Northern Light
also has a set of "special collection" documents that are not readily accessible
to search engine spiders. There are documents from thousands of sources, including
newswires, magazines and databases. Searching these documents is free, but there
is a charge of up to $4 to view them. There is no charge to view documents on
the public web -- only for those within the special collection. Northern Light
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Backed by US television network CBS,
iWon has a directory of web sites generated automatically by Inktomi,
which also provides its more traditional crawler-based results. iWon gives away
daily, weekly and monthly prizes in a marketing model unique among the major
services. It launched in Fall 1999.
Formerly called All The Web,
FAST Search aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine
to break the 200 million web page index milestone and consistently has one of
the largest indexes of the web. The Norwegian company behind FAST Search also
powers some of the results that appear at Lycos (see below). FAST Search launched
in May 1999.
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WebTop is a crawler-based
search engine that claims an extremely large index. In addition to listing web
pages, WebTop also provides information from news sources, company information
and WAP-related content in its search results. The company also offers the WebCheck
tool (formerly called k-check), which is an Alexa-like search and discovery
tool. WebTop is backed by Bright Station, the company that acquired some search
technology and other resources from the former Dialog Corporation. The Dialog
search service itself is now owned by a different company, the Thomson Corporation
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