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Magellan

  • Rates and reviews sites according to content and presentation.

WebCrawler

  • Use AND, OR and NOT operators.
  • Use (parenthesis) to remove ambiguity from search operators (e.g. McKenna AND (Dennis OR Terence)).
  • Use NEAR/# to find two keywords within a certain number of words of each other (e.g. lsd NEAR/20 tattoo or alkaloid NEAR/25 extraction)
  • Use ADJ to find keywords that appear together in a specific order (e.g. cannabis ADJ indica)
  • Use "quotes" to denote a phrase (e.g. "self-transforming machine elves").

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Yahoo!

  • The yellow pages of the web.

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Other search engines:

All4One

Search the web using four indexes simultaneously, viewing the results on a single page.

The Best Search Engines

A functional list of several.

Open Directory Project

a.k.a. NewHoo.

HotBot

From Wired magazine.

Argus Clearinghouse

Subject-oriented internet resource guides

c|net: search.com

More than 250 ways to search the Net

SavvySearch

Queries many search engines simultaneously, picking the most useful.