Search Engine
From Market Ruler Help
A Search Engine is a computer program which retrieves information from a variety of sources and makes it easier to search. The most common use of Search Engines is searching the internet for information.
Search Engines crawl the internet using Bots or Spiders which regularly visit web sites and download information and place them in the Search Engine Index.
Most Search Engines store a massive amount of information to make indexing and retrieval faster.
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Universal Search Engines
These search engines are the largest, and typically offer specialized searches in specific languages. (Using the appropriate Top-Level Domain Suffix.)
- Yahoo!
- Microsoft Live a.k.a. MSN Search (Microsoft Network)
- Ask
- Teoma acquired by Ask
- AltaVista
- Lycos
Foreign Language Search Engines
- Baidu Chinese Search Engine
- Ekolay Turkish Search Engine
- Kvasir.no Norway Search Engine
- MyNet Turkish Search Engine
- Najdi Slovenian Search Engine
- Netsprint Polish Search Engine
- Onet Polish Search Engine
- Ozu Spanish Search Engine
- Sesam (Norway) Norway Search Engine
- Sesam (Sweden) Swedish Search Engine
- Szukacz Polish Search Engine
- Virgilio Italian Search Engine
- Voilà French Search Engine
- WP Polish Search Engine
- Yam Chinese Search Engine
- Yandex Russian Search Engine
Other Search Engines
- A9 from Amazon
- AOL America Online
- Netscape Now part of AOL
- BrainFox Site search appears to only work when logged in
- Blowsearch
- Excite
- Gigablast
- InfoSpace
- Kanoodle
- LookSmart
- Terra
- WebMenu
Web Directories
Comparison Search Engines
Niche/Custom Search Engines
Aggregator Search Engines
These sites group search engine results pages (SERPS) from multiple engines: