Search Engine List

Most search engines these days are free. Using a search engine is vital to you being able to find things online quickly and easily. Without search engines, the internet would be a very hard place to navigate around on. You would essentially just have to know the website name, if you could not search for it. Google has taken over the niche for search engines, and is on the top of all the best search engine lists. Google is followed (though not closely) by Yahoo, then MSN! There are complete search engine lists out there, but you really only need to worry about what Google is doing. They are doing something right, with the amount of people that use their site to search for everything online. Google is a free search engine that has changed the face of the internet as we know it. If you are not familiar with Google or the other search engines, there are plenty of useful articles right here and elsewhere on the internet that explain how search engines work, and also to help you improve your searching skills. Pretty soon you will be using Google as a verb as well! Google-ing actually loosely means the act of searching something on the internet, preferably with the search engine Google.

For those of you who like to know more, below is a list of all the more important search engines and web crawlers.

Major Search Engines
Alexa Internet
Ask.com
Gigablast
Google (read article)
MozDex
Yahoo! Search (read article)
Windows Live Search (MSN) (read article)

Metasearch Engines:
Brainboost
Clusty
Dogpile
Excite
HotBot
Info.com
lxquick
Krozilo
Mamma
Metacrawler
Myriad Search
SideStep
Surfwax
WebCrawler

Google Based Engines:
AOL Search
Compuserve Search
MySpace Search
Netscape
Ripple

Yahoo Based Engines:
AltaVista
AlltheWeb
Earthoid.com
GoodSearch
Rectifi

Windows Live Based Engines:
A9.com
Tafiti
Ms. Dewey

Ask.com Based Engines:
Hakia
iWon
Lycos

Remember that Google has pretty much become the best of the search engines out there, and will yield the best results more often than not. If you are running a website, it might be good for you to put a free search engine on your webpage. This allows visitors to search your page via the search engine you choose to put on there, and it may very well help your webpage's ranking with that particular search engine. They are easy to install, usually in the form of a widget, and most of them are usually free. You can browse around on the actual search engine's webpage to find a link, or you can search for free search engines.