AltaVista – A search engine that is located at www.altavista.com.

Ask Jeeves – A metasearch engine that is located at www.askjeeves.com.

DogPile – A metasearch engine that is located at www.dogpile.com.

Excite – A portal that is located at www.excite.com.

Fast Search – A search syndication company that is located at www.fastsearch.com and www.fast.no and also powers the search engine located at www.alltheweb.com.

Go Network – A defunct portal that is located at www.go.com.

Google – A search engine that is located at www.google.com.

Goto – A pay-per-click search engine that underwent a name change and is located at www.overture.com.

Inktomi – A search syndication company that is located at www.inktomi.com.

Ixquick – A metasearch engine that is located at www.ixquick.com.

Looksmart – A web directory that is located at www.looksmart.com.

Mamma – A metasearch engine that is located at www.mamma.com.

Metasearch Engine – A search engine which displays the results of several search engines.

MSN Search – A search destination that is located at www.search.msn.com.

Northern Light Search – A search engine that is located at www.northernlight.com.

Portal– A site which features a suite of commonly used services and acts as a starting point and gateway to the web (web portal) or a niche topic (vertical portal).

Raging Search – A search engine that is located at www.raging.com.

Search Engine – A program indexing documents in order to match documents that are relevant to a user’s search request.

Web Directory – A categorized listing of web sites.

Yahoo – A portal that is located at www.yahoo.com.

Zworks – A metasearch engine that is located at www.zworks.com.

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