Search Engines

This documents collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW. Suggestions for additions are welcome! Select a category from those listed below and away you go!

Information Servers
Software
People
Education
Publications
News/FAQs
Documentation
Business, Online Catalogs and Shopping
Other Interesting Things
Search with Human Assistance
Domain Names
Miscellaneous

Information Servers

List-based WWW Catalogs
Aeiwi - User friendly search engine
AgriBOT - Canada's Online Agricultural Directory
L'Annuaire francophone - Annuaire thématique francophone
Avika Aliweb at Nexor Breizhat - Le guide l'Internet breton
CanadaOne - Canadian Online Business Ressources
The Canadian, Eh? - Showcasing Canada's Best Family Safe Websites!
Canadopedia - "La Toile du Canada"
Caribseek - Caribbean search directory Click And Search
Embassy World - Embassy and Consulate Search Engine
Egypt Search - Egypt-related websites directory
Fat Head Search
Godado - United Kingdom and Italy
goGreece.com - Internet Guide to Greece
Hellenic Resources Network
InfoBase International
Insectclopedia - Lists sites related to insects
Lifestyle UK - Categorised (10,000+) links, geographically sorted under 87 different headings
LII - Librarians' Index to the Internet
Max - Search in South African Web
OmniTree - Categorized (over 60,000) links about Computers
OzOnline
OzSearch Internet Guide - An all-Australian web directory
Pathfinder Greece - The Greek Portal
Phantis - A Greek Portal
Rambler - In Russian
Robby - The Hellenic Search Engine
Russia on the net
SearchLite - Parent/child friendly directory
Sharelook Deutschland - Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch)
Sharelook France - (in français)
Sharelook Italia - (in italiano)
Study Web - Reviews and categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites
TioSam - Brazilian portal (in portuguese)
La Toile du Québec
web.de - In German
webhelp.com
Wonderport
World Wide News - A big worldwide directory of online newspapers
ZenSearch
Z-Search - Search engine for WebTV

Spider-based WWW Catalogs
See also:
All The Web Ananzi - Largest portal in Africa
Australian WebSearch
Canada.com - Your Canadian Internet Search Engine
cee-mail.com - A General Search Engine
Cosmoz
Fireball - Search engine in German
HotBot
Ibound
It News & Search Engines
Maple Square - Canadian search engine
NewZealand WebSearch
SpaceRef.com - Search engine for the Space community
Splat Search
SwissGuide - Lists 60,000 Swiss sites
Websearch - Search engines for Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom or Hong Kong
SimpleSearch.com
WorldLight
Zebra - Another South African search engine

Other Catalogs

Interesting:

Karnak - Find and accumulate a personal library of knowledge
Tsunami surfing page

Other Meta-Search Engines

1blink
All4one - Sends simple queries to AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler and Excite
AllSearchEngines - All about search engines
Alphasearch
Apollo7 - German-language Metasearch with high-performance
Black Widow search engine
C4 CentraPoint
External Info - Page at Twente University
Freezersearch
Mamma
meta360.com - A parallel search engine
MetaCrawler
MetaFetcher
MonsterCrawler - Also mp3
Net2day - Takes few seconds, then displays available results
NoImages.com - The Web search engine without images
Nominator
OneSearch - "It only takes OneSearch"
One2Seek Metasearch
Redesearch.com
Proteus - Metasearch tool suite
Search.langenberg.com - Get There Faster
Search Buddy - Meta-search engine with an original interface
Search Engines Galore - Hundreds of search engines!
Search Spaniel - Lets you use as many search engines as you like simultaneously
SherlockHound
SiFMuG - (Surfing Internet Facilitated Multipurpose Unified Gateway) a huge list of search engines
Suchen.com - German language based meta search engine
TekSphere Stealth Search Anonymiser - Search a site and surf anonymously
The Boojum
TotalSurf
WebInfoSearch - Also job, price and people meta-search
Web Search - Internet Guide and Reference

Software

See also:

FTP search
Infoware - Allows you to locate a specific business or organizational software package

People
See also:

Aquent Talent Finder - The Search Engine for Independent Professionals (IPs): Freelancers, Free Agents, Contractors, Consultants, Self-Employed
FOUR11 Directory Services
Perso-Search - L'outil de recherche exclusivement reserve aux Pages personnelles
SearchBC.com - Search engine for British Columbia business and personal internet ressources
Who? Me? - Search through a database of notes to see if any of them are meant for you

Education

Search the Eugene Public Library Register-Guard and Eugene Weekly Archives
Braintrack - Over 5300 Links to Higher Educational Institutions in 152 Countries
CityCollege - The Ultimate University and College Directory in North America
PedagoNet - A learning resources search engine

Publications

See also:

Cornell University's Technical Report Library

News/FAQs (Frequently Asked Questions)

Interesting:

Deja.com - archive of Usenet newsgroups
NewsGuy News Service

Documentation

Alex - Alex Catalogue of Electronic texts (previously Gopher Catalog of Electronic Texts)
GoXML.com - XML Context-based Search Processor
Internet Draft Index at Nexor
RFC index at Nexor
webreference.com - The Webmaster's Reference Library

Business, online catalogs and shopping sites

AME Info - Information about 200,000 companies from 13 Middle East countries
Buyer's Index - Search over 17,000 online retailers and mail order catalogs by specific products and categories
Global Biz Directory.com - business directory
Present Picker - An editorial gift site that lets you select from over 190 criterias for that perfect gift
The Net One - Directory of business and services
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Other Interesting Things