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Pronunciation: 's&rch
Function: verb
Etymology: Middle English cerchen, from Middle French cerchier to go about, survey, search,
from Late Latin circare to go about, from Latin circum round about.
1 : to look into or over carefully or thoroughly in an effort to find or discover something.
2 : to uncover, find, or come to know by inquiry or scrutiny -- usually used with out intransitive senses.

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AllTheWeb.com (FAST Search)
All the web
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AllTheWeb.com has one of the largest indexes of the web. Fast provides search-results to Lycos. FAST is one of the major search engine which still accept free submissions of URLs.


AltaVista
Alta Vista
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AltaVista is one of the oldest crawler-based search engines. Receive results from LookSmart and the Open Directory Project and Overture. Another of the major search engine which still accept free submissions of URLs.


AOL Search
Search AOL

AOL Search allows its members to search the web and AOL's own content. The "external" version, listed above, does not list AOL content. The main listings come from Google.


Ask Jeeves
Ask Jeeves

Ask Jeeves is a human-based search engine that aims to direct you to the page that answers your question. It integrates information from the Teoma service that it owns.


Google
Google
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Google offers the largest collection of web pages of any crawler-based search engine. Google makes use of link analysis to rank these pages. Google provides web page search results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Another of the major search engines which still accept free submissions of URLs.


HotBot
HotBot
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In most cases, HotBot's first page of results comes from the Direct Hit and then secondary results come from the Inktomi search engine. It gets its directory information from the Open Directory project.


Inktomi
Inktomi

Originally Inktomi was a search engine at UC Berkeley. The creators then formed their own company with the same name and created a new Inktomi index. There is no way to query the Inktomi index directly, as it is only made available through Inktomi's partners with whatever technology they may provide.


MSN Search
MSN Search

Microsoft's MSN Search service is a LookSmart-powered directory, with secondary results from Inktomi.


Netscape Search
Netscape search

Netscape Search's results come primarily from the Open Directory and Netscape's own browsing database, which does list "official" web sites. Secondary results are provided by Google.



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