| Yahoo!
Yahoo! used to be a directory but now they are a full-pledged search engine and internet portal. Yahoo! also provides free email, photo hosting and news for it's readers. They have an auction section as well if you are looking to sell your old stuff. You can also do shopping on Yahoo!. Furthermore, Yahoo! provides webhosting and domain name registration for it's customers. If you need advertising, Yahoo! has a search ads Pay Per Click system which is easy to use. Publishers can sign up to publish those advertisements on their website and get some revenue.
http://www.yahoo.com/ [ Yahoo! ]
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| Feedster
Feedster is RSS Feeds Search Engine. It is the market leader in utilizing feed technology. It checks for new feeds on websites minute by minute. This way, you get up-to-date information from huge number of sources. Feedster also claims to have the highest quality of RSS Feeds on the Internet. Feedster gets it's information from blogs, podcast and other websites. Feedster also offers a service called Feedspapers. This service allows their users to receive instant and high quality relevant content on their websites.
http://www.feedster.com/ [ Feedster ]
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| Technorati
Technorati is a very famous blog search engine and tracking site. It currently has about 70 million blogs in it's database. Technorati has a "popular" list of blogs so that you know which blogs is being searched often. You can submit your blog to Technorati and once you are in, you can "ping" it whenever you update your blog. It also features a toolbar for both Internet Explorer and Firefox. Other than that, they also offers some pretty interesting tools for the blogger like for blog searching. Technorati was founded by Dave Sifry and is based California, USA.
http://technorati.com/ [ Technorati ]
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| AltaVista
AltaVista used to be a full pledged search engine. It had been awarded several search -related patents. But now, it uses the search results from Yahoo!. Their company vision is to provide relevant and useful information to Internet users. Although they are now purchased by Overture and they use Yahoo! search results, they do provide a very different interface to searches than Yahoo! Unlike the portal style of Yahoo!, AltaVista has a clean layout for anyone who is interested in searching the web for information.
http://www.altavista.com/ [ AltaVista ]
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| Windows Live
Windows Live.com is a powerful portal/search engine, owned by Microsoft. It provides a very simple search interface for their users. But it then peform a complicated but accurate search for your desired terms and displayed the results for you afterwards. Live.com is one of the largest Search Engines on the Internet. Their search includes images, news, maps and even from their own classifieds. You can even customize your very own homepage by adding or removing content or sections. They also offers different software to improve your search experience.
http://www.live.com/ [ Windows Live ]
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| IceRocket Blog Search
IceRocket is an Internet search engine especially designed for blogs, the web and Myspace. IceRocket accepts and indexes RSS feeds as well. If you submit your blog and if your blog has feeds, IceRocket will read that too. IceRocket scours the web looking for content on weblogs and indexes them for searches. It also provides a ton of tools for bloggers. Tools like Link Tracker and Blog Trend Tool are provided free for it's users. Along with free tools, they have a toolbar available for Internet Explorer. They are based in Dallas, Texas.
http://www.icerocket.com/ [ IceRocket Blog Search ]
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| Dogpile
Dogpile is not your normal search engine. It improves searches by combining results from different search engines. They take results from Google, Yahoo!, MSN, Ask.com, LookSmart and others. Dogpile also have it's very own search algorithm which analysis the results and outputs them to ensure that only the most relevant results are shown. However, sponsored listings are thrown into the mix as well. But these listings are tagged as sponsored so users will know. You can also try out Dogpile's toolbar for Internet Explorer. Dogpile's mascot is called Arfie.
http://www.dogpile.com/ [ Dogpile ]
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| Clusty
Clusty is a new search engine which combines results from different search engines and then outputs it into a list. It uses the meta tags to help it understand how to rank these results. After creating this list, it then tries to group similar results together. They call this Clusters. This way, you can get related results much easier than normal search engines. Clusty also provides a toolbar for Firefox users. Clusty is also a blog search engine providing specialized searches in various fields.
http://clusty.com/ [ Clusty ]
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| Alexa
Alexa is a new Search Engine. It provides intelligent and relevant searches for it's users. They provide thumbnail previews of the search results as well. It also offers their users a powerful toolbar which has a ton of useful features. This toolbar also collects information on the site the user is visiting, thus enabling Alexa to know a site's traffic ranking, related links and so on. However, this toolbar is only available for Internet Explorer and Windows. In addition, they have a list of "movers and shakers" and "top sites" on the Internet.
http://www.alexa.com/ [ Alexa ]
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| Scrub The Web
Scrub The Web (SW) is a powerful Search Engine for the general user. It makes use of complex algorithm and new technologies to provide it's users relevant results for searches. SW also helps websites improve their rankings in other major search engines. They provide free tools and services in order to achieve that. SW also offers a free toolbar for it's users. If you want more powerful tools, you can join SW as a member. Members has access to numerous tools which allows you to submit your site to a thousand search engines.
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ [ Scrub The Web ]
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| Syndic8.com
Syndic8.com is a RSS Feed directory. You can search for various feeds on huge number of topics or according to your region. Syndic8.com is a community project, where users can suggest feeds into the directory. They also offer a "featured" on the frontpage for a small weekly fee for better exposure. Syndic8.com makes it easier to access feeds from other sources. You can check out the detailed statistics of the directory as well. This directory is started by Jeff Barr and Bill Kearney and you can view their blog from the frontpage.
http://www.syndic8.com/ [ Syndic8.com ]
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