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• A Search Engine - General interest search engine. Index contains about 5,000 carefully selected and frequently spidered sites offering products, services and information for the US market.
• Amfibi - Search engine and Web directory lists sites from around the world. Offers free site submission and search in the languages of English, French, Spanish, and Catalan.
• Babieca - Search engine, web directory and metasearch, featuring top searches on Babieca.
• GoingInto.com - Search engine with metasearch functions featuring a list of the most popular search results from sources around the web.
• PlayCity - Free Entertainment Search Engine where you can play free games, find music, humor, jokes, message board, find toys, search for clubs, get sports, find entertainment literature, search for computer games, buy games.

Editorial Picks

• AltaVista - One of the original search engines, it was acclaimed for its powerful, relevant search results before Google dethroned it. Tried to become a portal, failed at that endeavor, started a Google "killer" (Raging Search) that was shelved and then reverted to its search roots. Subsequently bought by Yahoo.
• Ask Jeeves - Originally known as a natural language engine that encouraged full question queries, it bought Direct Hit, then Teoma, and then Excite, iWon and MyWay; now displays Google AdWords for revenue.
• FAST - Based in Norway, this search engine had a cult following similar to Google in its early days. Was bought by Yahoo, which integrated Fast's and AltaVista's technology
• Google - Begun as a Stanford labs research project in 1997, Google has leapfrogged all its competitors to become the No. 1 search engine. Main features: Speed of searching, Google Toolbar, Google Groups, Google Directory
• MSN Search - Another Google killer that is scheduled to be integrated in Microsoft's next operating system, codenamed Longhorn.
• Yahoo Search - Was the first directory and the first portal, but the last search engine.

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