Search Engines List

By One Way Links in category: Search Engine Optimisation

In the world of search engines, Google is the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world.

Google utilises a crawler-based system to provide comprehensive coverage of the internet with precise relevancy. However, google does not only provide web pages.

By utilising the top of the search box on Google’s home page, one can also
find images located on the web, discussions occurring on Usenet newsgroups, news information and even perform detailed product searches.

Google began as a Stanford University project by students Larry Page and Sergey Brin and was originally called BackRub.

The name was changed to Google by 1998 and the project left the college campus and became the private company Google.

Yahoo is the oldest directory existing on the internet. Yahoo also utilises a crawler-based system to list results; however they use their own search technology, apart from Google’s algorithms.

In addition to Yahoo’s search results, there are tabs above the search box on Yahoo’s home page that enable the user to seek images, Yellow Page listings or use Yahoo’s shopping search engine.

Yahoo also sells paid placement advertising links that appear on their own. These are also distributed to others.

Live Search is the name of Microsoft’s search engine. This is the successor to MSN Search and has been designed to compete directly with Google and Yahoo.

Live offers some interesting features, such as the ability to view additional search results on the same web page and the ability to adjust the amount of information displayed for each search-result. It also allows the user to save searches.

AOL Search provides users with editorial listings taken from Google’s crawler-based index. Performing the same search on both Google and AOL Search will deliver similar matches. AOL Search is primarily designed for the AOL user.

The “internal” version of AOL Search provides links that are only available within the AOL online service. This enables searching AOL and the entire web at the same time. Users outside of the AOL service will not see these internal links.

Ask Jeeves was a very popular search engine in 1998 and 1999. A key to their popularity was their ability for a user to search for information simply by asking questions. The search engine responded with what appeared to be the correct answer to every question asked.

At that time, Ask Jeeves employed approximately 100 editors who monitored the site’s search logs. They themselves went onto the internet to find the appropriate sites to match the most popular questions.

Currently, Ask also utilizes crawler-based technology to provide results to its users. These results come from the Teoma algorithm, now known as ExpertRank.

The BBC is one of the top rated search engines serving the UK. Consumers can easily customise their browsing experience by changing the look and feel of their display options, and the BBC website makes an attractive and very useful homepage.

The BBC offers a full mobile edition for complete access by phone or PDA for up to date news, sports, entertainment, audio, and video.

They also offer a “guided tour” to assist users in customisation, to help users find the information they need, and to help make sure that people get the most out of their search engine.