Extreme Searching

Links to Engines

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Thanks, Ran Hock

Largest Engines
Medium Sized Engines
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Newer Engines
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. Links to Meta-Search Engines

Remember:

Most meta-search engines do not:

Return more than the first 10-30 records actually present in the target engine

Carry over syntax (Boolean, field search, etc.) as you entered it

Cover all of even the three largest search engines

These are most useful when:

You are searching for a single, very rare, word

You don't care to find all of the relevant records (but in that case, why not just pick one of the big "real" engines and search it, using all of its capabilities?)

Dogpile Inference Find

Internet Sleuth MetaCrawler

Profusion SavvySearch

For an extensive list of other meta-search sites, see:
Yahoo's "All-in-One Search" listing

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Remember: Most meta-search engines do not: Return more than the first 10-30 records actually present in the target engine Carry over syntax (Boolean, field search, etc.) as you entered it Cover all of even the three largest search engines These are most useful when: You are searching for a single, very rare, word You don't care to find all of the relevant records (but in that case, why not just pick one of the big "real" engines and search it, using all of its capabilities?)
Dogpile	Inference Find
Internet Sleuth	MetaCrawler
Profusion	SavvySearch
For an extensive list of other meta-search sites, see: Yahoo's "All-in-One Search" listing