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The 'DIRECT' and 'META' groups are basically in numero-alphabetical order by site name. Some of the web searchers in the 'DIRECT' group are actually meta-searchers, but they are so 'smooth' that they appear to be doing their own searching. I may move some of these to the 'META' group, someday. End of Table of Contents. Start of Groups of Web Search Links.
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PRIVACY web searchers
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GOOGLE web searchers
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'WEB-DIRECTORIES' of web searchers
< Go to Table of Contents, above. >It seems that 'web directories' are dying out. Google and Yahoo closed theirs down around 2014. Then around 2017, the directory from which the Google and Yahoo web-directories were spawned --- the DMOZ "Open Directory Project" closed down. It seems that it is just not feasible for a team of people to keep up with all the sites that are going dead and the new sites that appear. About a year after the dmoz.org site closed down, it appears that a new web-directory site --- curlie.org --- arose from the ashes of 'dmoz.org'. It remains to be seen how long that web-directory lasts. Following are a few links related to 'web directory' sites.
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YAHOO web searchers
< Go to Table of Contents, above. >I repeatedly got a bad taste in my mouth concerning Yahoo. Whenever I have been looking for information on a topic and I landed on one of the Yahoo 'Answers' pages (at answers.yahoo.com), the RIDICULOUSLY poor quality of answers on those pages has left me wondering why Yahoo did not shut down that project. Yahoo seemed to have NO moderators to get rid of answers that are stupid and useless (like "I have not tried this, but have you tried ...." followed by something that just reveals the ignorance of the answer-poster). Yahoo deserved to be going down in flames in the 2010-2015 time period. Their only site worth saving was their 'Yahoo Finance' site. But I present a few other Yahoo links for what they are worth. A pittance? (NOTE: Most Yahoo pages are slow to fully display due to lots of unnecessary processing.)
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"DIRECT" web searchers
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"META" web searchers
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SITES WITH LINKS to many web searchers
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Web REFERENCE resources
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I'm still looking for a better search engine.
Here is a suggestion for a major improvement.
Bottom of this There may be many more 'meta' search engines out there. They come and go. And 'direct' search engines seem to get absorbed/acquired/merged into others. You can put the names of a few of these meta-searchers in Google --- to find web pages that provide links to even more "meta-search" engines. And, thus, you may also find more "direct-search" engines. To see some current, best-of-class search engines, you could see the bottom of a search page of the DMOZ (dmoz.org) Open Directory Project (ODP). In July 2006, the search engine links being shown at the bottom of DMOZ results pages were: AltaVista - A9 - AOL - Clusty - Gigablast - Google - Lycos - MSN - Teoma - WiseNut - Yahoo In December 2014, the bottom of DMOZ results pages showed: AOL - Ask - Bing - Blekko - DuckDuckGo - Gigablast - Google - ixquick - Yahoo - Yandex - Yippy After 2017 March, this way of seeing currently functioning web searchers will no longer work. DMOZ 'retired' in 2017 March. About a year after 'dmoz.org' went dead, 'curlie.org' arose from the DMOZ ashes. In August 2018, the bottom of Curlie results pages showed: AOL - Ask - Bing - DuckDuckGo - Gigablast - Google - StartPage - Yahoo - Yandex In June 2022, the bottom of Curlie results pages showed: AOL - Ask - Bing - DuckDuckGo - Ecosia - Gigablast - Google - StartPage - Yahoo - Yandex To return to a previously visited web page location, click on the Back button of your web browser, a sufficient number of times. OR, use the History-list option of your web browser. OR, ...
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Page was created 2006 Apr 22.
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