Search Engines

ACM Queue: Why Writing Your Own Search Engine is Hard

acmqueue.com

Anna Patterson explains the problems of search engine design in practical terms in this lengthy article.

332 visits Nov 14, 2025 Details

Amfibi

amfibi.com

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.

309 visits Sep 1, 2025 Details

Ask

ask.com

Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.

13 visits Aug 23, 2024 Details

Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads

commercialalert.org

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 s…

286 visits Oct 21, 2025 Details

Creative Commons Search

search.creativecommons.org

Powered by Nutch, it searches content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having to pay or ask permission.

31 visits Apr 21, 2025 Details

Dumbfind

dumbfind.com

Offers the option to specify a general topic as well as specific keywords for more precise results.

223 visits Jul 6, 2023 Details

Entireweb

entireweb.com

The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.

354 visits Nov 28, 2025 Details

FactBites.com

factbites.com

A cross between a search engine and an encyclopedia. The results return complete, informative sentences about the search topic. Related topics are suggested.

61 visits Apr 12, 2025 Details

FirstGov Search

firstgovsearch.gov

The U.S. Government's official search engine. Find information from federal, state, local, tribal and territorial governments. Meta-search special government databases.

199 visits Mar 29, 2026 Details

Gigablast

gigablast.com

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.

478 visits Apr 9, 2026 Details

Infosniff

infosniff.com

A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.

251 visits Dec 21, 2025 Details

Mojeek

mojeek.com

Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising.

25 visits Apr 15, 2024 Details

MSN Search

search.msn.com

Microsoft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.

456 visits Jun 15, 2025 Details

NPR : The Search Engine Wars

npr.org

In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines.

52 visits Dec 30, 2025 Details

Objects Search

objectssearch.com

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.

224 visits Feb 9, 2025 Details

Pipeline

pipeline-search.com

A clustering engine with a streamlined interface, which presents all results in one column and clusters by topic in another.

428 visits Sep 13, 2025 Details

Scrub The Web

scrubtheweb.com

Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.

116 visits Mar 23, 2024 Details

Search Engines and Editorial Integrity

ojr.org

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 …

226 visits May 4, 2026 Details

SearchHippo

searchhippo.com

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.

155 visits Aug 22, 2024 Details

The Evolution of Web Searching

davidgreen.me.uk

David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.

318 visits Feb 17, 2026 Details

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