Wednesday, 17 October 2007

How Many Search Engines!?!

Think about it for a second, and tell me which search engines you can think of:

Google - easy.
Yahoo - Likewise.
LiveSearch - Well you've heard of it even if you haven't - its MSN.
Ask.com.

Now, if you'd asked me a few hours ago, I would have come up with that list, and maybe one or two more like Alta Vista and Lycos.

Ever heard of GigaBlast? WiseNut? ExaLead? Me neither, and they're amount the more popular of search engines out there.

What about Lucerne? Xapian? Nutch? Or even the unpronounceable Ht://dig?

Turns out there's literally thousands of them out there if you include the specialist engines, and they're all steadily spinning their spider webs throughout the web..

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