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HotBot
HotBot, owned by Lycos, is a favorite among researchers and the Web elite because of its many power search features. To begin with, it offers the ability to search either HotBot, Google, Lycos or Ask Jeeves in one place. Since it's not a metasearch engine, it won't blend the results, but the benefit is that you can integrate any of HotBot's advanced features into your searches all in one convenient place. For example, you can add any advanced search requirement to your HotBot home page, so you can basically build your own advanced launching pad feature by feature. Date filters? Word filters? Media requirements (returned pages must include images, Shockwave, Real Audio/Video, Java, Acrobat or MP3 files, for example)? No problem! Another worthwhile place to build your advanced searching skills.
| Ixquick
Ixquick‘s metasearch tool applies your search query to 13 search engines. Results are ranked according to how relevant each of the search engines consider each returned website to be to your search. You can search for for MP3 files, photo and news as well. Ixquick supports regular searches, natural
language searches and advanced Boolean searches, and knows which engines handle what types of searches. One of the cool features of Ixquick is that you can select or deselect the search engines that you want queried in your metasearch.
It’s also available in 14 languages.
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MSN Search Beta
Internet marketers are watching MSN closely for signs that the "Goliath v.
Goliath" search engine war is heating up. MSN has vowed to take on industry-leader Google with the creation of their own crawler-based search engine (MSN's search engine results have historically been pulled from partner Inktomi). Their new MSN Search Beta version is rumored to be delivering results directly from MSNBot - which is the name of the new search engine being developed by Microsoft - although curious explorers will still see some results from Inktomi. This new search engine will be built into new versions of Internet Explorer and MSN plans a mega-branding campaign. Let the search begin.
| Open Directory
Real, live human editors have been adding sites to the the Open Directory
since 1998. These volunteers are experts in their categories, and they devote their time to creating the best subject directories humanly possible. Because of the quality listings and the fact that the Open Directory is an open source project (anyone can use it as a directory on their site with a simple licensing agreement), the Open Directory provides the directory listings for many major sites, including Google, AOL and Lycos. By getting your site listed in the Open Directory, you will help it propagate throughout the Web. But to use the Open Directory, do consider going through Google and using the Google Directory version, which incorporates Google's relevancy algorithms and link popularity analysis to organize the listings based on content relevance, rather than alphabetically.
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PeopleProfileUSA
Looking for personal information on one of 200 million individual U.S. consumers? Log in to PeopleProfileUSA, brought to you by InfoUSA, and you can get individual consumer profiles by name, without cost. The information is culled from telephone directories, mail order purchases, real estate transactions, voter registration data, magazine subscriptions and survey responses. A typical profile includes name, address, telephone number, estimated income, family members, homeowner status, home value and hobbies. This service appears to be a loss leader for credit checks or lists from BusinessCreditUSA and InfoUSA. Researching every single one of your customers with this service on an individual basis is obviously quite labor-intensive. However, such deep information may well be useful in certain circumstances.
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