Search Engines

Search Engine	Description
	Google - The world's most popular search engine.
	Bing Search: Microsoft's entry into the burgeoning search engine market. Better late than never.
	Yahoo! Search: The 2nd largest search engine on the web (as defined by a September 2007 Nielsen Netratings report.
	AltaVista: Launched in 1995, built by researchers at Digital Equipment Corporation's Western Research Laboratory.
	Cuil: Cuil was a search engine website (pronounced as Cool) developed by a team of ex-Googlers and others from Altavista and IBM.
	Excite: Now an Internet portal, was once one of the most recognized brands on the Internet. One of the famous 90's dotcoms.
	Go.com: The Walt Disney Group's search engine is now also an entire portal. Family-friendly!
	HotBot was one of the early Internet search engines (since 1996) launched by Wired Magazine. Now, just a front end for Ask.com and MSN.
	AllTheWeb: Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently.
	Galaxy: More of a directory than a search engine. Launched in 1994, Galaxy was the first searchable Internet directory.
	search.aol: Now powered by Google. It is now official.
	Alexa Internet: A subsidiary of Amazon known more for providing website traffic information. Search was provided by Google, then Live Search, now in-house applicaitons run their own search.
	Lycos: Initial focus was broadband entertainment content, still a top 5 Internet portal and the 13th largest online property according to Media Metrix.
	GigaBlast was developed by an ex-programmer from Infoseek. Gigablast supports nested boolean search logic using parenthesis and infix notation.