Wisconsin Lawyer
Vol. 84, No. 2, February 2011
Hundreds of search engines are available on the Web, and more are coming online all the time. The following are some helpful resources for locating evidence on social networking sites.
• Top Ten Search Engines, www.seoconsultants.com/search-engines
• AltaVista, www.altavista.com
• Ask, www.ask.com
• Bing, http://www.bing.com
• Cuil (billed as having the world’s biggest index), www.cuil.com
• DuckDuckgo (eliminates clutter as it crawls), www.duckduckgo.com
• Exalead (based in France, use to search European sources), www.exalead.com/search
• Factbites (answers in sentences using encyclopedias and other higher content sites), www.factbites.com
• Google, www.google.com
• Google for searching blogs, http://blogsearch.google.com
• Hakia (looks for meaning through semantic connections of words to concepts rather than relying on the standard keyword match), www.hakia.com
• Highbeam (searches approximately 80 million articles from archives of 6,500 newspapers, magazines, and more), www.highbeam.com
• Kosmix (searches images, video, blogs, tweets), www.kosmix.com
• Quintura (clusters results in a tag cloud that can be manipulated to alter the search), www.quintura.com
• Technorati (searches blogs), www.technorati.com
• SearchQuilt, www.searchquilt.com
• Yahoo, http://search.yahoo.com
Specialty search engines – for videos:
• Bing, http://www.bing.com/videos/browse
• Google, http://video.google.com
• Yahoo Video, http://video.search.yahoo.com
• YouTube, www.youtube.com
Specialty search engines – for images:
• Bing, http://www.bing.com/images
• Google, http://images.google.com
• Yahoo, http://images.search.yahoo.com
“Meta-search” engines (to search several engines at one time):
• etools.ch (Swiss meta engine useful for searching European sites), http://www.etools.ch
• Fuzzfind (also searches social bookmarking sites), www.fuzzfind.com
• iSeek, www.iseek.com
• MetaCrawler (simultaneously searches white pages, yellow pages, Ask, Bing, Google, Yahoo, and more), www.metacrawler.com
• Polymeta, www.polymeta.com
• Yippy (searches images and Wikipedia), http://search.yippy.com
• Zuula, www.zuula.com
For more information about Web search tools, see Web Search Guide, www.Websearchguide.ca/index.html; and Applied Discovery, www.applieddiscovery.com.
