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Search engine with country specific searching. Options to display country flags, and include preview and translation features. Sponsored links appear in panels separate from the main results.
www.wotbox.com
Search engine with sponsored links at the top of results. Also offering a meta tag builder and analyzer.
www.scrubtheweb.com
Search Engines and Editorial Integrity
Article from the USC Online Journalism Review examines the issue of major search engines adopting deceptive, misleading advertising practices at the expense of editorial integrity and their users.
www.ojr.org
Offers search for web sites, news, weather reports, pictures, stocks, maps and directions, people or products. Also has a dictionary search.
www.ask.com
Indexes sites listed in the major internet directories. Offers free web services, including a search toolbar, and code for webmasters to provide search boxes on their sites.
www.searchhippo.com
General search engine with an uncluttered interface in a choice of Catalan, English, French, and Spanish. Also has a web directory using the Open Directory.
www.amfibi.com
A search engine with a clean interface, advanced search options including sorting by date, and a real time url submission feature. Includes PDF documents in its index.
www.gigablast.com
The Evolution of Web Searching
David Green's paper from Online Information Review explores the development of search engine technologies.
www.davidgreen.me.uk
An uncluttered interface offers options to search the web, news and blogs, includes cached pages and 'anchors', which are titles and descriptions from the Open Directory.
www.objectssearch.com
The English-language version of a Swedish search engine with a clean interface and large database.
www.entireweb.com
Commercial Alert Files Complaint Against Search Engines for Deceptive Ads
A complaint filed with the United States Federal Trade Commission by Ralph Nader's Commercial Alert service, which charges the major search engines of inserting advertisements in search engine results without clear disclosure that the ads are ads.
www.commercialalert.org
Powered by Nutch, it searches content which can be re-used (for somes uses) without having to pay or ask permission.
search.creativecommons.org
Microsoft provides search of the web, news, images and its own encyclopedia, Encarta. Also offers desktop search via a toolbar.
search.msn.com
Search engine with a simple interface and no advertising. Offers the ability to create a customized topical or personal search index.
www.mojeek.com
In a five-part series, NPR's Rick Karr takes a look at the business of search engines.
www.npr.org