where can i find the best search engine other than  www.google.com?

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Clarification of Question by japrak22-ga on 27 Mar 2003 12:29 PST

iam sorry, it just testing.
what i really want to ask is:

"is there any other search engine that has more complete database than google.com" ?

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 27 Mar 2003 13:41 PST

Google easily has the largest database, with just over 3 billion
indexed web pages. Would you like information on the next largest, or
the top 5?

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Clarification of Question by japrak22-ga on 27 Mar 2003 14:04 PST

sure. the top 5 seems good!

Hi there,

Greg R. Notess is a search engine expert who has been keeping track of
search engine index sizes for three years now. Not only does he list
the sizes reported by the engines in their press releases, but he also
uses his own techniques to verify the sizes.

Millions of web pages indexed
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Google         3,033 
AlltheWeb      2,106 
AltaVista      1,689 
WiseNut        1,453 
Hotbot         1,147 
MSN Search     1,018 
Teoma          1,015 

The above numbers are from Dec 31, 2002
http://www.searchengineshowdown.com/stats/sizeest.shtml

I pay close attention to such numbers, as I run my own search engine
site and like to keep the facts and figures up to date. The numbers
are still accurate for today. The emphasis on size has waned, with
engines now aiming to mimic Google's good points - a clean,
uncluttered interface and relevant results.

Although Google has the most pages indexed, it only indexes the first
100K of each page. AlltheWeb indexes complete pages - which means in
terms of information indexed their sizes could be quite similar.

A good way to test AlltheWeb is by searching for url.all:http:+, which
today brings up 1961 million pages:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=utf-8&l=any&q=url.all%3Ahttp%3A%2B

Other search engines don't make it so easy to check their claims.

Hotbot has changed recently into an interface for 4 different searche
engines - the figure given is for the default Inktomi search. MSN also
uses Inktomi, however each have a slightly different version of it,
which explains the difference in sizes.


Search strategy: personal bookmarks


Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga