Aesop Search
The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.
http://www.aesop.com/Amfibi
General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
http://www.amfibi.com/
Ask Jeeves
Uses the Teoma database to offer search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, people or products.
http://www.ask.com/
BrainBoost
Question answering search engine that accepts natural language queries.
http://www.brainboost.com/
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads
http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=1&subcategory_id=24&article_id=33
Creative Commons Search
Powered by Nutch, it searches content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having to pay or ask permission.
http://search.creativecommons.org/
DeepIndex
European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
http://www.deepindex.com/
Entireweb
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
http://www.entireweb.com/
Gigablast
A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
http://www.gigablast.com/
Infosniff
A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
http://www.infosniff.com/
Mozdex
Nutch based engine explains search result relevancy.
http://www.mozdex.com/
Objects Search
An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
http://www.objectssearch.com/
Scrub The Web
Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users.
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017778969.php
SearchHippo
Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
http://www.searchhippo.com/
Teoma
Ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
http://www.teoma.com/
The Evolution of Web Searching
David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.
http://www.davidgreen.me.uk/oirapr00.html
Topix.net: Search Engines
News about search engines, collected from various sources on the web.
http://rss.topix.net/rss/business/search-engines.xml
WiseNut
Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
http://www.wisenut.com/
Wotbox
Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.
http://www.wotbox.com/
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