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| Yahoo Kids |
| Child-safe portal with search engine capabilities. |
| Yahoo |
| A portal with search engine capabilities. |
| Web Brain |
| Uses visual mapping--navigate to subject by "drilling" down in broad categories. Each click results in a revised web map. |
| Vivisimo |
| Meta-search tool. Presents results in "clusters" by subject for easy navigation. |
| Open Directory |
| Commercial-free, volunteer led. Very dependent on individual web page authors submitting info to be listed. Extensive lists of links by topic. |
| MetaCrawler |
| Meta-search engine--gather results from many web search engines by using just a single search. |
| ixquick |
| Meta-search engine--gather results from many web search engines by using just a single search. |
| Invisible-Web |
| Many sites that search engine robots cannot find. Most are free, but some require a fee and/or registration. |
| Dogpile |
| Meta-search engine--gather results from many web search engines by using just a single search. |
| Ask |
| "Plain Language Inquiries" - semi-meta search engine. Provides prompts to assist in targeting search. |
| Answers.com |
| Based on encyclopedia/dictionary format. Collection of 4 million answers drawn from over 60 titles from brand-name publishers, plus original content by its own editorial team. |
| AltaVista |
| Good for non-indexed items--personal names, snippets of info, mailing lists, traffic, etc. |
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