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Other search engines

www.allthesites.com

About is http://www.allthesites.com/aboutus.htm
Submit URL at http://www.allthesites.com/submit.htm
Advanced search at http://www.allthesites.com/advanced/search.asp
Help is at http://www.allthesites.com/searchhelp.htm

This seems to be a fairly basic B2B re-badging of www.alltheweb.com. As with
that site this is a fast and comprehensive search engine,


www.directhit.com

Help ia http://www.directhit.com/help/
Add URL at http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html
Advanced search at http://www.directhit.com/AdvancedSearch.asp
About is at http://www.directhit.com/about/index.html

This search engine shows the 10 most popular links selected in response to search enquiries. You type in your query and the (up to 10) most popular selected links are displayed. Related queries are also shown. One problem is that not all queries give results.

Statistics are gathered by monitoring click-throughs at search engines such as HotBot. DirectHit seems to be offering itself as a service to these search engines.


www.findanything.com

No Help.
Add URL is a Javascript-invoked pop-up
About is at http://www.findanything.com/About

Yet another "next generation" search engine. This one allows you to rate your results from Excellent to Poor, although you need to supply an email address for the privilege. My results were mixed.

Only 10 results per page, with no indication of how many results have been found in total.



www.findia.net

Help at http://findia.net/help.html

Intentionally minimalist engine that allows various types of searches (Mp3 etc). The results page includes links to www.changedetection.com which
will report via email when the selected pages are updated. 20 results per page, with no indication of the total number of matches found.


www.hotrate.com

No help.
Become an editor at http://www.hotrate.com/suggestURL.asp
Add URL at http://www.hotrate.com/SuggestURL3.asp
About at http://www.hotrate.com/about.asp

Claiming to be based "on second generation self-teaching search technology" and as a result they don't need to have a "next 20" button. A more honest opinion might be the software would be too hard to write.

The 20 results consist of - in order - a mixture of sponsored links, directory listings and then Google-based search results. The sponsored links are shown clearly in a box, and the directory listings have "opinions" logged against them.

The directory is maintained by editors and reviewers who seem to be able to earn commission through referrals.

www.links2go.com

No advanced search.
No add URL
Help is at http://www.links2go.com/help
About is at http://www.links2go.com/about

A site that ranks sites according to their link popularity. Results are shown in an interesting tree format, grouping results together, and the most popular results are numbered. The trees are coloured showing separately the links between related topics and individual sites. This makes it easy to refine your search by searching for a more appropriate topic.

The site also allows discussion groups to form around the major topics,


www.monkeysweat.com

No Advanced search.
No Help.
No Add URL.

A simple and fast search engine. Results are fairly comprehensive (reminiscent of the old AltaVista) and presented in pages of 25 with only a "Next" option at the end. The site offers an Affiliate program which pays people referring users to the site (I've not signed up BTW). They plan to extend this to cover pay for clicks in 2001.


www.searchit.com

Add URL at http://www.searchit.com/addurl.htm
No advanced search.
No help.

Small and cheerful search engine.


www.supersnooper.com

No Advanced search
Read about Super Snooper at http://www.supersnooper.com/AboutDisclaim.htm
Check your URL at http://www.supersnooper.com/CheckURL.htm
Add your URL at http://www.supersnooper.com/AddURL.htm

Super Snooper's robot vets all sites for obscenity of various type. The results are presented as a list of sites as opposed to URLs, which is probably because of their relationship with www.coolsites.net.

Only one page per directory may be entered


www.topclick.com

Help at http://www.topclick.com/search_tips_basic.html

Advanced search help is at http://www.topclick.com/search_tips_advanced.html.
Being Google-based this isn't too advanced, although this page is slightly more helpful than I remember Google's being.

Add URL at http://www.topclick.com/add_url.html, although this is presumably
just a front for Google.


This Google-powered site claims to be the world's first "private" search engine. They claim to use no cookies to monitor your behaviour, and they show no banner ads that might slow things down. They back this up with one of the longer privacy policy pages I've seen.

Then again, neither does Google.


http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/

Edit a site at http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/modify/modify.html
Read about it at http://search.thunderstone.com/texis/websearch/about.html

Although referenced by www.metacrawler.com, this site appears to have a
small index at present. You can edit your site's entry only if you can receive mail as "webmaster".


www.voila.com

Advanced search is at http://www.voila.fr/sop?refine=ok&lg=UK. (This
is the UK version).

Help is at http://www.voila.com/Informations/

Add your URL at http://www.voila.com/Info/addsite.html. Submissions are
acknowledged by an email that gives you a reference number.

A French-based search engine available in several regional (mostly European) variants, the above is the English speaking version. The French version offers 5 million french pages indexed in addition to the 50 millions world wide pages.


www.webzone.com or www.infohiway.com

No Advanced search
No Help
Add URL at http://www.webzone.com/isn/addurl.html

A fairly straightforward search engine that lists the date the link was last validated (mostly 6 months old when I checked)


www.whatuseek.com

No advanced search or help pages that I could find.
Add URL at http://www.whatUseek.com/noshock/addurl-tableset.shtml

This Shockwave-enhanced portal site came up near-empty on the test searches I tried. Uses Thunderstone technology.



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