Dogpile

URL: http://www.dogpile.com
Title: Dogpile Web Search Home Page

Description:Dogpile uses innovative metasearch technology to search the Internet's top search engines, including Google, Yahoo, AltaVista, Ask Jeeves, About, FAST, FindWhat, LookSmart, and many more. With one single click, Dogpile fetches the best results from the combined pool of the best search engines -- instead of results from just one single search engine. And Dogpile makes it easy to refine your search so you can find the most meaningful results right away.

Comment: A single search engine doesn't reach every site. Dogpile is one of a number of sites which try to remedy this by using multiple search engines. It seems to work, as Dogpile has become one of the most popular search sites.

Google

URL: http://www.google.com
Title: Google search engine

Description: Google's innovative search technology and elegant user interface design set Google apart from today's first-generation search engines. Rather than using only keyword or metasearch technology, Google is based on the advanced patent-pending PageRank™ technology, which ensures that the most important results always come up first. PageRank performs an objective measurement of the importance of web pages and is calculated by solving an equation of 500 million variables and more than 2 billion terms. PageRank uses the vast link structure of the web as an organizational tool. In essence, Google interprets a link from Page A to Page B as a "vote" by Page A for Page B. Google assesses a page's importance by the votes it receives. Google also analyzes the page that casts the vote. Google's complex, automated search methods preclude human interference. Unlike other search engines, Google is structured so no one can purchase a higher listing or commercially alter results. A Google search is an honest and objective way to find high-quality websites, easily.

Comment: Google has become one of the most popular search engines, because of its unique and effective search methods.

KartOO

URL: http://www.kartoo.com
Title: KartOO metaseach engine
Description: KartOO is a metasearch engine with visual display interfaces. When you click on OK, KartOO launches the query to a set of search engines, gathers the results, compiles them and represents them in a series of interactive maps through a proprietary algorithm

Comment: KartOO presents its results as interactive graphic maps. These require FlashPlayer to be installed and are certainly very different. Try it, you might like it.

Search Engine Watch

URL: http://searchenginewatch.com/
Title: Search Engine Watch: Tips About Internet Search Engines & Search Engine Submission
Description: Search Engine Watch provides tips and information about searching the web, analysis of the search engine industry and help to site owners trying to improve their ability to be found in search engines

Comment: The site was created by Danny Sullivan, an Internet consultant and journalist who continues to maintain the site for internet.com. He is assisted by associate editor Chris Sherman. It is the place to go to keep up with the latest on the search engine scene.

Turbo10

URL: http://turbo10.com
Title: Turbo10 Search Engine - Search Deeper. Browse Faster.
Description: Turbo10 is a powerful Metasearch Engine, that provides a simple, universal interface to the Deep Net™. It clusters results and allows the user to choose their own collection of search engines.

Comment: Traditional crawler-based search engines like Yahoo and Google can only index static web pages - the 'Surface Web.' But the Surface Web represents only a small percentage of the available information on the Internet (CNN). A wealth of high quality information lies behind thousands of smaller, topic-specific search engines. These search engines are inaccessible to traditional crawler-based engines like Yahoo and Google. Turbo10 is now developing search technology to harness the collective memory of searching done by many users.