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Search engines

Google Huge collection of more than 1 billion URLs, executing fast searches. Many additional services and tools.
Originally a subject directory, Yahoo! now is a search engine, directory, and portal.
Ask.com Ask.com allows the user to enter a question in plain English.
alltheweb

Very good and fast search engine . You can search in 36 languages for Web pages, News, Pictures, Videos, and MP3.

AltaVista

It supports full-text indexing of Web pages. It does keyword search with options for Simple or Advanced search and search refining. Searches may also be restricted to images, MP3/audio, and video formats.It also offers the option of selecting which language you want to search in.

Hot Bot
Full-text indexing search engine that allows limiting searches by date, location, and language. It is a search engine.
Excite
Full-text indexing search engine. you can limit youρ search to web, images, news, audio and video.
Lycos

Includes searchable people, yellow pages, images, audio, video, news, and more.

   International directory offering links to search engines and directories from 342 countries and territories around the world.

Subject directories

Yahoo Subject directory with 14 major categories providing also search capabilities by keyword.
Librarians' Index to the Internet The Librarians' Index to the Internet is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 16,000 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians.
BUBL LINK / 5:15: Selected Internet resources covering all academic subject areas and organized by the Dewey Decimal Classification. From the University of Strathclyde, Scotland.
rdn Web directory compiled by subject and information experts in the United Kingdom. It identifies, catalogues and describes high quality Internet resources relevant to teaching, learning and research.The service currently links to more than 100,000 human selected resources organized into eleven topical categories.
The Internet Public Library (IPL) is a web directory with ten (10) content areas and much more sub-categories. It includes also a very good Reference Center with links to almanacs, dictionaries, etc. and Teen and Youth sections.
beaucoup

Categorized and annotated directory of "more than 2,500" searchable Web sites.

open directory The Open Directory Project is a large, comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. It contains more than 5 million entries in close to 500,000 categories. Used by Google, HotBot, and Lycos to enhance their sites.

Meta search engines
A meta-engine sends a query to more than one search engine, sometimes of the user's choosing. Results may be merged, with duplicates removed, or may be presented as separate lists from each engine.

Search results are automatically organized and presented in categories.
Dogpile A multi engine semi-parallel search interface automatically searching 20+ search engines 3 at a time.
metacrawler It searches the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more.
Mamma Mamma queries the major Search Engines. Τhen it creates a virtual database, organizes the results into a uniform format and presents them by relevance and source.
WebCrawler Likw metacrawler it searches the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, About, FindWhat, LookSmart.
Fast meta search engine with simple and advanced search and many useful options. Each result has a "Quick View" link that opens up the top part of the page directly in the result list.

Gateways

Academic Info Educational Subject Directory, Online Degree Programs, Test Preparation Resources.
Art, Design, Architecture and Media information gateway.
AHDS, Arts and Humanities Data Service.
Biz/ed, Business and Economics information gateway.
Healthfinder, Health information.
Portal on social sciences
"A free online service providing access to the very best web resources for education and research, evaluated and selected by a network of subject specialists."
SAPLING, Architecture, Planning & Landscape Information Gateway. "Searchable database with more than 700 reviewed links to architecture, planning and landscape websites from around the world."

Greek Search tools

in.gr 18 subject categories and query function with Greek oriented content.
Directory counting over 2500 categories and subcategories with search capabilities. It's a customized search tool for Greece and the world. Users have the ability to choose the services they prefer to use and the way these are displayed.
Phantis Phantis is a search engine specifically designed to target Greek based world wide web sites. Phantis is maintained in both Greek and English.
goGreece GoGreece.com was created in order to assist Internet users seeking information on Greece. Content covers: Business, Travel, Sports, Art, Food, News, TV, Radio, Industry, Technology, and Science.

 

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