SEARCH ENGINES

GENERAL SEARCH ENGINES

Google - fast; relevant, high quality hits; keeps pages in cache, searches PDF format and images.  Offers the largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based search engine.  Wide-spread praise for its high relevancy .

http://www.google.com/

META-SEARCH ENGINES

Search send to several individual search engines.  None search Google (a top choice for web searchers).

Vivisimo - clusters results into a hierarchy; "no paid listings". http://vivisimo.com/html/index.html

Ixquick – “The world’s most powerful metasearch engine!” http://www.ixquick.com/

Profusion –  “Search the top 1000 Search Sources”; Has a lot of control with advanced search.   http://www.profusion.com/

Hint: If you want words to appear together in a specific order, use quotation marks (" ") to set words off as phrases to be searched as a whole.

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