• Cacti Search - search Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask, and retrive a collated results list with an option to view results from each engine separately
• Chubba - search the Web, a dictionary/thesaurus and encyclopedia
• Clusty - tool from the creators of Vivisimo that clusters results from a variety of surface and deep Web sources and organizes them into clusters by topic, site or URL; also offers a variety of customization options, including the creation of a Clusty Cloud
• Copernic - client software that searches multiple engines and directories, removes duplicates and dead links, highlights search terms in your results, and offers a variety of search and retrieval options
• Don Busca - searches the Web, blogs, news and software and offers a variety of options with each result including concept clusters, a visual thumbnail of the site, a cached version, a link to the site archive in the Wayback Machine, site info from a variety of sources and various bookmark management options
• Dogpile - search 20+ search engines and retrieve results by relevance or separate source engine; also presents concept clusters for viewing results organized by keywords or topics
• ez2Find - searches eight search engines and a number of deep Web sources and clusters the results into concepts
• Fazzle - searches several search services on the Web, and also offers specialty searches of downloads, images, video and other topics on the deep Web
• Findelio - searches a handful of popular engines and includes a list of related searches along with each set of results
• FindForward - searches multiple sources and offers numerous search options including chat search, tags, wildcard and grow word search
• iBoogie - offers searches of the Web and multimedia, and supplies real-time concept clustering of results
• InfoGrid - offers meta and news searching; portal interface also features the Open Directory, topical InfoGrids, with additional customization of topics available in a free download
• Intelways - offers a search of multiple search engines, content providers and media types with access to results sets from the individual sources
• Ixquick - ranks results based on top ten rankings from the source sites; allows any type of search syntax and will translate and direct your search accordingly
• Kartoo - categorizes content into relevant concepts and sites and displays results on a graphical map; requires Flash or offers an HTML version
• Keotag - type a keyword or phrase and retrieve results from the past 30 days of blog postings from numerous blog aggregators; you can subscribe to an RSS feed to track this search
• KillerInfo - retrieves information from the general Web and various topic-specific sources and organizes results into concept clusters based on Vivisimo's technology
• Mamma - retrieve results in relevancy ranked order; power search offers a user-friendly template for building a query
• MetaCrawler - retrieve results in relevancy ranked order; useful power search available with a template of search options
• metaEUREKA - sorts results by relevancy and offers a "Site info" link that returns information on the server, date last modified, size, and descriptive information if available; also links to site history via the Wayback Machine and popularity ratings from Alexa
• Mnemomap - provides results in a graphical format that provides search refinements and draws results from Yahoo!, Flickr and YouTube
• Mooter - meta engine that presents initial search results in graphical format and organizes results into concept clusters
• Pandia Search Central - searches multiple engines and directories and also offers searches of news, books, music, videos and other specialty databases; includes a searchable version of the Open Directory
• Slurk - searches Google, Yahoo and MSN, and gives keyword search suggestions and immediate results as you type
• Sproose - allows users to comment on and vote on its search results
• SurfWax - offers options to see a quick view of sites in the search results list to determine relevancy and choose alternative search terms for a subsequent search from a thesaurus; offers personalization options; offers SurfWax LookAhead with "Dynamic Search Navigation" that retrieves results from RSS feeds as you type various kinds of queries
• Trexy - tracks "trails" of the Web pages visited and therefore valued by other searchers; users can Add Engine to extend the range of the search engines that Trexy uses
• URL.com - returns the top ten results from Google, Yahoo! and MSN, and allows users to comment on and vote on the results
• Virtual Learning Resources Center - searches several high quality directories; also offers its own directory
• WhoNu - semantic tool that searches a large number of resource types, including deep Web sources, and suggests alterate topics
• Yooci - metasearch tool that retrieves no more than 250 results for any search
• ZapMeta - organizes results by relevance, popularity, title, source or domain, allows users to set preferences, and features a useful advanced search interface
• Zuula - searches the Web, images, news, blogs and jobs postings, and returns results from multiple search tools in configurable separate tabs

 

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Search Engine Collections

[Many also include directories]

• SearchBug.com - offers searches organized by topic, and searching of single or multiple search services
• Search Engine Colossus - directory of hundreds of search tools from more than 200 countries around the world
• Search Engine Guide - topical collection of 3000+ engines, directories and portals