Best Search Engines

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AltaVista's search technology has been a leader since debuting as the first full-text Internet search service in 1995. The company added multilingual search with support for 25 languages in 1997; debuted 20 local country sites between 1999 and 2001; launched multimedia (audio/video/image) search support in 1999; was the first major search engine to introduce free Internet news search in 2001; and unveiled AltaVista Prisma™, its powerful assisted search tool, in 2002.

Through constant innovation, AltaVista has been issued more search-related patents than any other major search engine company. Our persistent focus on search excellence enables AltaVista to continue to transform the search experience, helping users find the most relevant information available on the Web.

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Google runs on a unique combination of advanced hardware and software. The speed you experience can be attributed in part to the efficiency of their search algorithm and partly to the thousands of low cost PC's we've networked together to create a superfast search engine.

The heart of our software is PageRank™, a system for ranking web pages developed by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin at Stanford University.

PageRank relies on the uniquely democratic nature of the web by using its vast link structure as an indicator of an individual page's value. In essence, Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. But, Google looks at more than the sheer volume of votes, or links a page receives; it also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Votes cast by pages that are themselves "important" weigh more heavily and help to make other pages "important."

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AlltheWeb combines one of the largest and freshest indices with the most powerful search features that allow anyone to find anything faster than with any other search engine.

• AlltheWeb indexes billions of web pages, hundreds of millions of multimedia, Audio and FTP files, as well as tens of millions of PDF and MS Word® files.
• FAST scans the entire web every 7 - 11 days to ensure that our content is fresh and that there are no broken links.
• AlltheWeb supports searching in 49 different languages.
• Our News search provides up to the minute news from thousands of news sources all across the globe. We index hundreds of stories every minute.Most importantly, we provide you the control necessary to search for what you are looking for. AlltheWeb has the most sophisticated advanced search features by far. Try it out.

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Lycos was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University. Today, armed with a top-notch staff of engineers and developers, Lycos continues to expand the unique exploration and indexing technology. Utilizing this technology, Lycos has discovered a way to find not just information, but relevant information. Lycos technology has been touted by the Internet community and has been highlighted in several national publications as one of the hottest.

The Lycos database is constantly being refined by dozens of automated software robots, or agents, called "spiders." In fact, the term "Lycos" comes from the Latin for Wolf Spider-lycosidae lycosa--a predatory arachnid known for hunting its prey rather than laying in wait.

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Get the most comprehensive results you're looking for fast by searching multiple search engines - simultaneously. WebCrawler searches and returns results from a collection of search partners, including commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial search engines.

WebCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as AltaVista, Direct Hit, Looksmart and About. With one single, powerful search engine, you get the most comprehensive results. When you use WebCrawler, you are actually searching many search engines simultaneously. If you think about it, why would you search any single search engine, when you could search them all with WebCrawler?

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Get the most comprehensive results you're looking for fast by searching multiple search engines - simultaneously. WebCrawler searches and returns results from a collection of search partners, including commercial (sponsored) and non-commercial search engines.

WebCrawler is a meta-search engine that searches the Internet's top search engines such as AltaVista, Direct Hit, Looksmart and About. With one single, powerful search engine, you get the most comprehensive results. When you use WebCrawler, you are actually searching many search engines simultaneously. If you think about it, why would you search any single search engine, when you could search them all with WebCrawler?

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Dogpile allows you to search multiple leading search engines at once, returning more comprehensive and relevant results, fast. Unleash the power of meta-search!

Now Dogpile delivers the results you want twice as FAST as before. Dogpile goes out and grabs the relevant results from our many search partners in half the time. Find the results you want in the blink of an eye.

They've made your favorite meta-search engine even faster by removing the stuff Dogpile Users said they didn't like - including a lot of the advertising. That's right. Less mess. Fewer ads. More of the results you're looking for faster.