| Google
- Search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity
as a primary way to rank web sites. |
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| Yahoo! - Oldest major web directory, it
is the largest human-compiled web guide. |
| AltaVista - One of the largest search
engines for the number of pages indexed. |
| Dogpile - Metacrawler for search engines, directories and specialty
sites. |
| Excite - Medium-sized index that integrates non-web material into its results when appropriate.
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| HotBot - Research favorite
because of its large index and power searching
features. |
| Lycos - One of the oldest search services,
it recently shifted to a directory format, similar to Yahoo.
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