Learn more about Search Engines from our Searching directory

Aaron's Photos: Trip to Google - Collection of thumbnailed photographs from an enthusiast's trip to the GooglePlex.

Aesop Search - The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.

Amfibi - General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan

Ask Jeeves - Uses the Teoma database to offer search for web sites

BrainBoost - Question answering search engine that accepts natural language queries.

Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads - A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service

Creative Commons Search - Powered by Nutch

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

Gigablast - A search engine with a clean interface

Infosniff - A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.

Mozdex - Nutch based engine explains search result relevancy.

Objects Search - An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web

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

Search Engines and Editorial Integrity - Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive

SearchHippo - Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services

Teoma - Ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups

The Evolution of Web Searching - David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.

Topix.net: Search Engines - News about search engines

WiseNut - Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.