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Top 15 Most Popular Search Engines at eBizMBA.com
 - Google (Google Tips)
 - bing (Bing Search Tips at Microsoft)
 - Yahoo!
 - Ask
 - Aol.
 - mywebsearch
 - LYCOS
 - dogpile - Meta search engine which combines results from Google Yahoo and bing

Ranked according to Search Engine Showdown test Aug. 2001.

Google  6,500 hits (6 unique hits) Google Tips
All The Web (Fast) 5,000 hits (40 unique hits)
Wisenut 4,600 hits
Northern Light 3,250 hits (10 unique hits)
HOTBOT (Inktomi) 3,200 hits
AltaVista  3,100 hits (23 unique hits)
  (Advanced Query) 
MSN  (Inktomi) 3,000 hits (1 unique hits)
Teoma 
Excite (18 unique hits)
NBCi  (Uses GoTo pay for ranking database)
Yahoo 
WebCrawler  (incl. netnews FAQ)
Search using InfoSeek  (incl. netnews FAQ) (15M page views/day) (10% coverage)
NetNews (groups.google) 
Magazine Articles
Lycos (Advanced Search) "to be", + , , -  (12M page views/day) (3% coverage)

AskJeeves
Magellan
SEARCH.COM at C|net.
FindIt at iTools.
Open Text
List of Search Engines at the U. of Geneva
Information Broker at Bellcore's Operations Consulting Server.
W3 Search Engine List at Teleport
 EINet Galaxy
ALIWEB (Archie-Like Indexing for the Web; ability to search catalog of many www sites (frequently unavailable)
JumpStation
   and Beta JumpStation II
Choose search form
or search by header or by
title.

Meta Search Engines - Combines results of multiple search engines

Copernic
Beaucoup
MetaCrawler
Dogpile
Mamma

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