Business Resources on the Internet: Search Engines

Bing is Microsoft's latest entry into the search engine market.

Powered by Metasearch technology, Dogpile searches different search engines, decides which are the most relevant to your search, eliminates duplicates and reveals them to you.

Google is far and away the top dog in search engines. Try here first.

Advertised as the most complete web index online, HotBot is a high-performance, fully-automated Internet search engine --- a fast, accurate tool to find information on the vast and ever-growing Internet. Hotbot uses parallel, network of workstations technology to download over 10 million web pages a day, from around the world.

Lycos is one of the oldest search engines on the Internet. Special feature include the capability to search for pictures or sounds, top news, site reviews, sites by subject, city guide and road maps.

The MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that it doesn't maintain any internal database. Rather, it relies on the databases of Google, Yahoo, Bing and others. The search results you receive are a combination of the top commercial (sponsored advertising) and non-commercial (algorithmic) results from the most popular search engines on the Web.

SEARCH.COM is a collection of tools designed to find all kinds of information...from World Wide Web sites to phone numbers to movies to stock quotes, and all points between. Includes feature stories to help you find what you're looking for, searching tutorial help, reliability ratings for each site, a chance to vote on your favorite site (or one that you hate), and a whole lot more.

Search a wealth of U.S. Government Information using the USA.gov database.

Very similar to Metacrawler, Webcrawler brings users the top search results from Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Ask and other popular search engines.

One of the first sites that provided a means to search for information on the web, Yahoo! is an excellent place to begin your research. You can either browse by subject categories or search by keywords.