Internet Gurus Search Page

You can use all of your favorite Web search pages from this page! Each box performs a search of the World Wide Web using a search page. Type something in the box and press Enter to perform a search. Or click the name of the Web search page (for example, "Google") to go to the main page for that site.

The results of each search are opened in a new browser window. If you want to start over with another search, switch back to this window and start again!

Our favorites

Google Google uses a proprietary technique to rank pages by relevance, so the first pages you find are usually the ones that bear most directly on the topic you were searching for. Also has indexes of images, usenet discussions, and current news stories from online sources around the world. Try the built in forward and reverse phone book (enter a name and two-letter state abbreviation or a phone number), and maps (enter an address, city, state.)

Open Directory The Open Directory Project (ODP) is a large and growing web directory maintained by an army of thousands of volunteers. It's not as big as Google, but it's better organized, and more up-to-date than Yahoo. Google, Lycos, Bytedog, and many other web indexes use a copy of the ODP's content as their directory.

Yahoo! The oldest major category-based search program, recently revamped to be much more Google-ish, with a web index, image index, and more as well as the classic directory They have about a million other things linked to their site, such as a Yahooligans, a search engine for kids (www.yahooligans.com). Try the new dictionary by typing ``define irenic'', or weather forecasts like ``weather apalachicola''.

Also worth searching

Ask Jeeves Ask Jeeves is partly a web index and partly a manually maintained directory of questions and answers. If your topic is one they address (and they address a heck of a lot of them), its information is of extremely high quality.	Teoma The search engine part of Ask Jeeves, relevance rank based on how popular the site was with previous search users. Also returns paid listings. Formerly known as Direct Hit.
Lycos Lycos was the first automated web index, now part of Terra Lycos, a web portal controlled by Telefonica, the Spanish phone company. In many ways they've long since been surpassed by Google and Yahoo. Ranks by how often sites clicked by people making similar searches before, not unlike Teoma.	Bytedog A "metasearch" run by grad students at Carnegie-Mellon University and other schools that searches several places and gives you a combined report. Cute graphics, too. Woof!

What happened to the other search engines you used to list?