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My favorite search engine are those which can limit the results of a search to a relatively few pages of great interest.
When I can easily articulate my search parameters, I prefer using boolean operators to refine the search ahead of time. This list contains search engines with Web-based access to boolean filters.
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| Google Advanced Search | Good | 1st (9,732) | 1st (3,033 Mpages) | 1st (41) | 4th (4.3%) | ||||||||
| Google Advanced Scholar Search | Good | ||||||||||||
| All the Web, All the Time - Advanced Search (Fast) | OK | 2nd (6,757) | 2nd (2,106 Mpages) | 3rd (7) | 6th (2.3%) | ||||||||
| AltaVista - Advanced Search | OK | 3rd (5,419) | 3rd (1,689 Mpages) | 7th (0) | 1st (13.7%) | ||||||||
| Excite Search: Advanced | OK | 2nd (8.7%) |
These engines are more useful when I can't articulate the search well, but I'd know what I wanted if I saw it.
| Relative Size | Total Size | Unique Hits | Dead Links |
| 8th (2,352) | 8th (733 Mpages) | 4th (4) | 3rd (5.7%) |
These deal with the opposite problem, no results from a search. The philosophy behind the spawners is that no one search engine has the entire web in its database.