Search engine is a program designed to help find information stored on a computer system such as the World Wide Web, or a personal computer. The search engine allows one to ask for content meeting specific criteria (typically those containing a given word or phrase) and retrieves a list of references that match those criteria. Search engines use regularly updated indexes to operate quickly and efficiently. Without further qualification, search engine usually refers to a Web search engine, which searches for information on the public Web. Other kinds of search engine are enterprise search engines, which search on intranets, personal search engines, which search individual personal computers, and mobile search engines.

Some search engines also mine data available in newsgroups, large databases, or open directories like DMOZ.org. Unlike Web directories, which are maintained by human editors, search engines operate algorithmically. Most web sites which call themselves search engines, are actually front ends to other search engines owned by other companies. The typical user will often not know which underlying search engine they are using.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.


Google


vivisimo
The Vivísimo Clustering Engine is not a search engine. Rather, it overlays search. The Vivísimo Clustering Engine automatically clusters or organizes search results into categories that are intelligently selected from the words and phrases contained in the results or documents themselves.





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Search Engines 2 offers over 12,500 links to local, regional, national, and foreign internet search engines, web directories, pay per click search engines and meta search engines.

Specialized Search Engines and Directories
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Biographies

Biographical Dictionary
Biography.com
Biography-Center
Lives

http://www.s9.com/biography/
http://www.biography.com/search/
http://www.biography-center.com
http://www.amillionlives.com

Company
information
Thomas Register
Industrial Quick Search
http://thomasregister.com
http://industrialquicksearch.com/
Copyrighted
book in print
Amazon
Barnes and Noble
http://amazon.com
http://www.baresandnoble.com
Country profiles

Altapedia Online
Kiosk: Journal of
Geopolitics

http://www.atlapedia.com/online/country_index.htm
http://www.bay.k12.fl.us/pdk/kiosk/index.html
Current newsGoogle News

http://news.google.com/

Enclyclopedia entries

Encarta
Wikipedia
http://encarta.msn.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org.wiki/Main_page
Federal (U.S.) legislationThomashttp://thomas.loc.gov/
ImagesGoogle Image Search
Pics4Learning
Fagan Finder

http://www.google.com/advanced_image_search?hi=in
http://pics.tech4learning.com/
http://www.faganfinder.com/img/

Images, sounds,
videos of animals
Junglewalkhttp://www.junglewalk.com
Literature in the
public domain
On-Line Books Page
Search e-Books
The Bartleby Library
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/
http://www.searchebooks.com
http://www.bartleby.com/
Live images
from everywhere
EarthCamhttp://www.earthcam.com/
Magazine articlesAJR Newslink Magazines
http://newslink.org.mag.html
MapsPerry-casteñada
Maptech MapServer (topo)

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/index.html
http://maoserver.maptech.com/
Medical informationHealthCentral.com
http://www.healthcentral.com/home/home.cfm
Military informationsearchmil.com
http://www.searchmil.com
Movies, actorsInternet Movie Database
http://www.imdb.com/
Newspaper
articles
The Reporter
AJR Newslink Newspaper
http://www.thereporter.com
http://newslink.org/
PatentsU.S. Patent Office
http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
Pictures and
information
about any
product of the
last 2 centuries
E-Bay
http://www.ebay.com
Primary source
documents
Library of Congress
American Memory
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/anmem/mdbquery.html
Radio StationsRadio-Locator
http://www.radio-locator.com
Shareware &
freeware
Version Tracker
C/Net Download

http://www.versiontracker.com
http://www.download.com
SoundsFindsounds.com
http://www.findsounds.com
State & county profilesU.S. Census Dept. Quickfacts
http://www.quickfacts.cenmsus.gov/qfd.index.html
TrademarksT.E.S.S
http://www.uspto.gov/main/trademarks.htm
TV episodesEpguides
http://epguides.master.com/texis/master/search/mysite.html?

Directories Especially for Educators

Children's Software
California Learning
Resource Network

http://www.clrn.org/home/
Curriculum Standards
Education World
http://www.education-world.com/standards/national/index.shtml
Info on
Educational Issues

ERIC Search
ERIC Digests

http://ericadr.piccard.csc.com/teams/Login.do
http://www.ericfacility.net/ericdigests/index/

Lesson Plans
The Reporter PAL/NIE
ALI Units of Practice
EdHelper
Lesson Plans Page
http://nieonline.com/thereporter/
http://ali.apple.com/ali/uops/shtml
http://www.edhelper.com/
http://www.lessonplanspage.com
Material Appropriate
for Children
Yahooligans
Kids Click
ThinkQuest Entries

http://www.yahooligans.com
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/
http://www.thinkquest.org/library/

Multi-subject
Starting Points

BBC Education Web GuideBlue Web'n
EduHound
Education World
Kathy Schrock's Guide
Marcopolo
S.C.O.R.E.
The Internet Scout Project
http://db.bbc.co.uk/education-webguide/pkg_main.p_home
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn/
http://www.eduhound.com/
http://education-world.com/
http://school.discovery.com/schrockguide/
http://www.marcopolo-education.org/
http://www.score.k12.ca.us/
http://scout.wisc.edu/
Schools and
University Sites

Searchedu.com
http://www.searchedu.com
Wired Schools
Web66 School Registry
CyberPlayground List
http://web66.umn.edu/
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Schools/default.asp



 

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