Web Search Engines

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This tool compares features and results from different search engines, not the engines by itself. We evaluate the search engines that have specific niche and bring unique features to the web.

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General InformationGoogle
Company Logo
OverviewMost used search engine on the Web. Google search service receives several hundred million queries each day.
Website URLwww.google.com
Website Submission Yes, www.google.com/addurl
Wikipedia Articleen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_search
Web Site Bloggoogleblog.blogspot.com
Customer Supportwww.google.com/support/websearch
RankingGoogle
Ranking AlgorithmPageRank algorithm www.google.com/corporate/tech.html
Search FeaturesGoogle
Audio Search No
Blog Search Yes, blogsearch.google.com
Book Search Yes, www.google.com/books
Career Search Yes, www.google.com/base
Desktop Search Yes, desktop.google.com
Dictionary Search Yes, type the word "define" then a space, then the word(s) you want defined
Events Search Yes, www.google.com/base
Finance Search Yes, www.google.com/finance
Forum Search No
Google
Health Search No
Image Search Yes, images.google.com
Local Search Yes, local.google.com
Map Search Yes, maps.google.com
Mobile Search Yes, www.google.com/mobile
News Search Yes, news.google.com
Patent Search Yes, www.google.com/patents
People Search No
Phrase Search Yes
Google
Product Search (Shopping) Yes, www.google.com/products
Questions and Answers Search No, Google Answers is no longer accepting questions.
Real Estate Search Yes, www.google.com/base
Recipe Search Yes, using Google Base: www.google.com/base/s2?a_n0=recipes&scoring=ld&a_y0=9
Scholar Search Yes, scholar.google.com
Search Alerts Yes, www.google.com/alerts
Search Creative Commons
Search in Categorized Directories Yes, directory.google.com
Search Public Source Code Yes, google.com/codesearch
Google
Semantic SearchFor some of the search queries. Google uses expanded list of useful related searches and longer search result descriptions
Travel Search No
TV Listings Search No
University Search Yes, www.google.com/options/universities.html
US Government Search Yes, www.google.com/unclesam
Vehicles Search Yes, www.google.com/base
Video Search Yes, video.google.com
Weather Search Yes, as you type "weather" followed by the city and state, U.S. zip code, or city and country
Search ResultsGoogle
Browser Toolbar Yes, toolbar.google.com
Highlights of Relevant Phrases Yes
Cached Pages Yes
Related Searches Yes, related pages only and using auto suggest feature
Thumbnails Preview No, but It's is available using Mozilla Firefox extension - ackroyd.de/googlepreview
Translate Searches Yes, translate.google.com/translate_s
Advanced Search OperatorsGoogle
Logical (Boolean) operations Yes, AND OR NOT
Operator [-] - exclude Terms from search result (-). Attaching a minus sign immediately before a word indicates that you do not want pages that contain this word... learn more Yes
Operator [*] - search with wildcard (*)... learn more Yes
Operator [+] - search exactly as is (+)... learn more Yes
Operator [after:] - search for modified after a given date. For example after:31/12/1999
Google
Operator [before:] - search for modified before a given date. For Example before:31/12/1999
Operator [inurl:] - restrict the results to documents containing that word in the url.... learn more Yes
Operator [link:] - webpages that have links to the specified URL (link:).... learn more Yes
Operator [site:] - search within a whole class of sites (site:).... learn more Yes

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