Aesop Search 
The Aesop spider looks for new meta tag to allow webmasters to automatically describe their site.
www.aesop.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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AllTheWeb 
Search with a simple interface and huge database. Also offers news, picture, video, MP3 and FTP search. Uses the Open Directory category structure to create the 'Fast Topics' option in search results.
www.alltheweb.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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.
www.amfibi.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Ask Jeeves 
Offerings searching for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, people or products.
www.ask.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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BrainBoost 
Question answering search engine that accepts natural language queries.
www.brainboost.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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. [July 16, 2001]
www.commercialalert.org/releases/searchenginerel.h... • info (alexa) • archivio
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Corporate Influences on Search Engine Result Rankings 
Details how powerful corporate giants use search engines to influence the search result rankings and how Internet users can counter this influence to get their own web sites ranked high in search results by search engines.
web.utk.edu/~dobrown/567/default.html • info (alexa) • archivio
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DeepIndex 
European search engine offering interfaces in Dutch, English, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
www.deepindex.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Entireweb 
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
www.entireweb.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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.
www.gigablast.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Infosniff 
A simple search engine from Cybersoft Infotek with advertising.
www.infosniff.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Mozdex 
Nutch based engine explains search result relevancy.
www.mozdex.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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.
www.objectssearch.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Scrub The Web 
Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
www.scrubtheweb.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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. [April 2, 2002]
www.ojr.org/ojr/technology/1017778969.php • info (alexa) • archivio
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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.
www.searchhippo.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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Teoma 
Using the same database as Ask Jeeves, it ranks sites partly by subject-specific popularity. Clusters results into subject groups, and lists related link collections by experts and enthusiasts where appropriate.
www.teoma.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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The Evolution of Web Searching 
David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies. [February 29, 2000]
www.davidgreen.me.uk/oirapr00.html • info (alexa) • archivio
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Topix.net: Search Engines 
News about search engines, collected from various sources on the web.
rss.topix.net/rss/business/search-engines.xml • info (alexa) • archivio
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Wayback Machine Recall 
Search archived pages starting from 1996. Shows term popularity across time and allows searches for periods of time on the web.
recall.archive.org/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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WiseNut 
Index of 1.5 billion pages. Search results are clustered into categories. Preferences settings include search by language and a filter to remove adult content.
www.wisenut.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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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.
www.wotbox.com/ • info (alexa) • archivio
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