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Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity: Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users. (Search Engines)
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017778969.php |
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Infosniff
Infosniff: A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising. (Search Engines)
http://www.infosniff.com/ |
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Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves: Uses the Teoma database to offer search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, people or products. (Search Engines)
http://www.ask.com/ |
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DeepIndex
DeepIndex: European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish. (Search Engines)
http://www.deepindex.com/ |
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Wotbox
Wotbox: Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results. (Search Engines)
http://www.wotbox.com/ |
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Objects Search
Objects Search: An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory. (Search Engines)
http://www.objectssearch.com/ |
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Entireweb
Entireweb: The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database. (Search Engines)
http://www.entireweb.com/ |
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Scrub The Web
Scrub The Web: Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer. (Search Engines)
http://www.scrubtheweb.com/ |
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Mozdex
Mozdex: Nutch based engine explains search result relevancy. (Search Engines)
http://www.mozdex.com/ |
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Amfibi
Amfibi: General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory. (Search Engines)
http://www.amfibi.com/ |
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SearchHippo
SearchHippo: Indexes the sites listed in the major Internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites. (Search Engines)
http://www.searchhippo.com/ |
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Aesop Search
Aesop Search: The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site. (Search Engines)
http://www.aesop.com/ |
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BrainBoost
BrainBoost: Question answering search engine that accepts natural language queries. (Search Engines)
http://www.brainboost.com/ |
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The Evolution of Web Searching
The Evolution of Web Searching: David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies. (Search Engines)
http://www.davidgreen.me.uk/oirapr00.html |
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Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads: A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads. (Search Engines)
http://www.commercialalert.org/index.php?category_id=1&subcategory_id=24&article_id=33 |
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WiseNut
WiseNut: Owned by Looksmart. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content. (Search Engines)
http://www.wisenut.com/ |
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Gigablast
Gigablast: A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index. (Search Engines)
http://www.gigablast.com/ |
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Teoma
Teoma: Ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate. (Search Engines)
http://www.teoma.com/ |
Additional
Information: A search engine is a Web site connected to a database that catalogs other Web sites. It will search the actual text of other Web sites for you. A computer search program, or spider, follows links on Web pages to regularly and automatically rebuild
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