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Australian Search Tools
- DirectoryAustralia
- Provides domain name and mapped regional search facilities within Australia
- Ecosustainable Search
- Search engine portal with a focus on ecology.
- Google Australia
- Defaults to worldwide results. Google's mirror for Australian users.
- kangaroo.com.au
- Direct site links within generic categories. Does not include a search facility
- ninemsn
- Joint venture between Microsoft and Publishing and Broadcasting Limited (PBL). Includes "... content from the stable of Nine Network television programs and Australian Consolidated Press (ACP) magazines..." along with MicroSoft Network (MSN)'s Hotmail, Spaces, Messenger and Search
- Mooter
- Defaults to Australian results while also offering international search. Returns results in clusters of related terms.
- WebWombat
- Australian Search Engine.
- White Pages
- You're on the Web! Online phone book listing the name, address and phone number of just about every Australian with a phone
- Yahoo Australia & NZ
- Australian mirror of this popular directory. Search by topic or across topics; World sites or just Australia. The manual approval of submissions at Yahoo means the database is smaller than the robot-operated search engines such as AltaVista or HotBot
- Yahoo Australia & NZ LOCAL SEARCH
- Yahoo's version of a 'Yellow Pages' style directory
- Yellow Pages
- Business directory showing the location and contact details of all Australian Businesses
International Search Tools
- AllSearchEngines
- " The net's top search engine index, a handy search engine directory."
- America OnLine (AOL)
- Includes web, pictures, video, audio, news, local and shopping search functions.
- AltaVista
- Comprehensive, Allows Simple or Advanced searching. URLs added <24hrs.
- Answers.com
- "... provides quick, integrated reference answers instead of just search engine links"
- Ask Jeeves (Ask.com)
- Uses Teoma search technology. Provides web, pictures, news, 'local' (American), shopping and many more functions.
- Beaucoup
- listing of very good search engines
- Go.com
- Walt Disney Internet Group front end to Yahoo search results along with headlines from ESPN and the American Broadcasting Company as well as other content they own
- Dogpile
- Meta search site owned by infospace. Searches Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves and MSN Search
- Excite
- Results include concepts associated with (not necessarily included in) your search terms and "find more documents like this" feature. Searches approximately 55 million URLs. Submissions take 3 weeks
- HotBot
- Searches approximately 110 million URLs. Sites added 1-2 days after submission.
- IllumiRate
- Human edited by volunteers.
- LookSmart
- "LookSmart provides relevant content, advertising and technology solutions for consumers, advertisers and publishers."
- Lycos
- Not as comprehensive as AltaVista , has regional portholes
- MSN Search
- Microsoft's search engine.
- Netscape
- Search engine "enhanced by Google", portal (webmail, personalisation, instant messenger network) and access to parent company Time Warner's content (Fortune, Time and Life magazines etc).
- Open Directory Project (DMOZ)
- "The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors."
- Search.com
- Search.com searches Google, Ask Jeeves, LookSmart and dozens of other leading search engines to bring you the best results.
- SearchEngines.com
- "search engine rankings and search engine optimization tips"
- Teoma
- Means "expert" in Gaelic. Uses "Subject-Specific Popularity [that] ranks a site based on the number of same-subject pages that reference it, not just general popularity". Owned by Ask Jeeves since September 2001.
- MetaCrawler
- Meta search site owned by infospace. Quickly searches multiple tools simultaneously, but you won't be able to take advantage of the advanced query features offered by each individual tool. Searches: Google, Yahoo!, Ask Jeeves, MSN Search and Ask Jeeves.
- WebCrawler
- Meta search site owned by infospace. Only 2 million URLs. Site samples, not indexed in depth. Description: Meta tag, or first 275 characters after <body> tag
- Yahoo!
- A manually constructed index of sites, arranged by topic in a searchable directory structure. Yahoo has been there since the beginning and arguably gets the greatest number of "hits" of all search tools
- Yahooligans
- "the Web guide for kids"
More on Searching
I've got millions of results to my query, what do I do? Don't panic! Results are ranked with the most relevant first. If you don't get what you're after in the first couple of pages, you need to refine your search. Go to the Help section of the Search tool you're using - they are slightly different for each one. A common refinement is putting phrases in "quotation marks", or using Boolean logic: + - AND, OR, NOT, NOT, ( )
Search Engines are not able to index material produced by a cgi-bin program, database enquiry, or any other such material which is generated on the fly. Also, they won't index any area which requires a password. Most importantly they won't, or shouldn't index directories which are marked as off-limits to them as specified in a robots.txt file in the root directory of the site.
Search Engine Watch search engine news, guides, ratings - how they compare
Finding Information on the Internet a Tutorial from University of California, Berkeley
Safe Surfing
Read Internet Censorship to find out about the effectiveness of filtering software to "protect" children online. Is a software program a suitable substitute for parental supervision?
. Guide for Internet Users.