best search engines

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Promo: SEARCH ENGINES

Search engines aren't the be-all-and-end-all of Internet promotion. They used to be the number one promo method, but the times they are a changing. The problem with them is that you tend to get swamped with far too many useless hits.
But they're still a necessary part of net marketing life. So here are some sites to help you improve your hit rate, followed by a listing of the bigger and better engines.

For more info see our article
the search engine secrets the pro's don't want you to know

SEARCH ENGINE LISTINGS

Alta Vista

Ask Jeeves Natural language meta-search engine, it allows you to ask questions in complete sentences

Beaucoup! Collection of links to over 800 search engines
Dogpile -- Meta search engine
Excite
Fireball German search engine.
Google -- Stanford University search engine
Highway 61 Meta search engine provides a quotation to read while you're waiting for results
HotBot Wired Magazine search engine allows you to limit by date, location and media type, and gives up to 100 results per screen.
How to Do Field Searching in Web Search Engines: a Field Trip
Inference Find Calls out in parallel all the best search engines, merges the results
Infoseek

LawCrawler -- FindLaw's intelligent agent for searching legal sites
Library of Congress Z39.50 Gateway Search by title, author, subject.
Liszt, the Mailing List Directory -- Searchable directory of e-mail discussion groups
LookSmart Web index with over 20,000 categories.
Lycos
MetaCrawler Searching -- Meta search engine searches Alta Vista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler and Yahoo.
MusicSearch -- "Internet's music-only search site" with over 11,000 links
NetSearcher -- Describes itself as "the search engine for Internet professionals."
Nomade -- French search engine.
Northern Light Search
PlanetSearch -- Search engine from Philips Electronics has a preview option which allows you to take a peek at a particular result without actually going to it
ProFusion -- Combines major search engines and filters the results.
SavvySearch meta-search tool
Search Broker -- Select a subject from a database of over 400 search engines and Search Broker "will automatically send the rest of your query to the search engine that specializes in that subject."
Search Engine Robot List

Search Page list for people who "don't know where to start"
Ultimate Bulletin Board: Internet Sleuth Forums Finding information forums
Web.de German search engine
WWW.FILEZ.COM -- Claims to be "the largest, fastest and most comprehensive file search engine on the net"
*Yahoo* -- Indexes "the best of the Web".