list of Web search engines

Web search engines - the current listing:

Aardvark passes your query onto a person who can answer it. Google owned.
Abbreviations for abbreviations
ABC Search engine - every search starts with ABC
About for guidance, not guesswork
Acronym finder - for over 750,000 human edited definitions
Ajaxwhois is a great for site statistics searches
Alexa is good for finding information on the top 100k sites
AllPlus - meta search and discovery engine
AlltheWeb - part of the Yahoo family
AltaVista is still out there, still doing a good job
Answers is the world's leading Q&A site
AOL Search no, I didn't think it was still going, but it is
Ask (Jeeves) still limping along, shadow of its former self
Ask if you want the US/global version
Azoos is the brightest yellow search engine out there
Backtype for realtime conversational search
Behold for flickr images
Betterwhois gets you good accurate information on domains
BeyondAdaze for internet search tools for correlation, compliation and off-line searching.
Blindsearch to compare results of major engines
Blinkx is a video search engine, with 35 million hours of it!
Browsys is a multi search engine
ChaCha allows you get other people to help with your search
Collarity for personalised searching across different types of data
Collecta for real time search
CompletePlant for 70k of searchable databases. Good for deep web
Country search engines is my list of 4,000 engines for 200+ countries
Definitions is good for thousands of definitions
Deepdyve for deep web searching
Digital Librarian; a librarian's choice of the best of the web
DMOZ for a hierarchical directory, old but still good
Dogpile for multisearch of Google, Yahoo, Ask & Bing (GYAB)
Dooblet finds alternatives for you
Draze to compare Google, Yahoo and Bing
DuckDuckGo is a family safe engine
Entireweb is a freetext search engine
Exalead is an excellent alternative to Google
Excite is there, but does anyone use it any more?
Factbites where results make sense
FaganFinder is a superb collection of search resources
Fefoo multi search engine with access to 250+ search engines
Findanyfilm available in the UK in any format
FindSounds for sound effects
FinQoo is an underwhelming meta search engine
Forelook for Google, Bing, Delicious, Flickr, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, Wolfram
Freesearch is a UK based search resource
Galaxy is a directory based search engine
Goofram for Google and Wolfram Alpha
Google doesn't need any words from me
Great PDF search engine - does exactly that - PDF search
Harvester42 Straightforward multi search engine, covering about 50 different resources divided into 16 different categories.
hashtagify.me This is a nice little search feature for hashtags on Twitter.
healia is an excellent medical search engine
Heapr for Google, Twitter, Wolfram Alpha, Wikipedia
Hotbot is a blast from the past and that's about all
Hunch is a decision engine, which works very well indeed
iBoogie is a clustering meta search engine
Icerocket has RSS feed options and is a good alternative
IllumiRate lights your way through the web. Apparently.
Infomine for scholarly data, and is excellent
Info Service is quirky and very colourful. Odd directory though
Internet Archive to see all those old pages!
Intute for academic resources. First class service
Irazoo search, win gift cards. I want to search, not win $5
Iseek is a clustering search engine; very good too
Ixquick is an excellent metasearch engine
KidsClick is websearch for children by librarians
KidRex is another children's safe search engine
Kngine styles itself as a Web 3 semantic web search engine
Letzfind framed multi search engine. Lots of resources
Librarians' Internet Index is a brilliant resource
LocateTV find shows, actors and movies
Lyrics is a great search engine to find those song lyrics. V. Good.
Lycos is still out there, but getting old and creaky
Macroglossa Visual search engine Upload image, see what it finds
Mahalo for social search, human created information resources
Mamma is the mother of all meta search engines
Melzoo results on the left, fullscreen page on the right pane
MetaCrawler is a meta search engine
Middlespot is a visual search engine
Monstercrawler for a GYAB search
Mundusearch for web, sounds, lyrics, music and video
MyAllSearch You can choose from Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask (Jeeves), Yandex, Lycos, Metacrawler, Entireweb and DuckDuckGo.
Navisso is a search engine that doesn't push official sites up
Newscred for credible news stories
Nexplore straightforward web/news/video etc.
Nobrandsearch Search 3 engines blindtesting. Which is best?
OAIster for academic material that's otherwise hard to find
OmniMedicalSearch is a top notch medical search engine
OneRiot for realtime search
Online Casinos Arranged by location, type, games, reviews etc
Oxysearch is a multi search engine for GYAB and Pixsy
Panabee for comparing results from different search engines
Pepesearch for freetext and directory search. Not impressed
Phrases.net for common phrases, casual expressions and idioms
Pinakes is a superb collection of virtual libraries
Pokersites is the premier guide to the best online poker sites
PolyMeta is an intelligent metasearch and clustering engine
Qrobe for Google, Yahoo/Bing and Ask
Questfinder is a selective web directory
Quotes.net for famous and not so famous quotations
Quintura for visual search in a word/tag cloud
Qwiki gives you images and text and reads it out to you. Why? I have no idea.
Redz for visual search - an arch of webpage thumbnails
References is a good source of reference resources
Re-QUEST is a directory based engine
Rhymes.net is an excellent search engine for finding words that rhyme, with translation and pronounciation options as well.
Scandoo checks for authority of the results it returns
Scirus for scientific data - great for academic use
Scoopler for real time search
Scour to search socially, see community votes and comments
Searchbug for people and company search in the US
Search is a multi search engine. Not stunned by it
Searchboth lets you compare results for 9 different engines
Searchbots is a 'build your own' resource
Searchdazzle puts 4 engines on one page. Messy!
Searchhippo is another multisearch engine that doesn't excite me
SearchLion covers Web, images, news, video, blogs, twitter. Nice and easy, with a nice blended approach.
SearchMedia is a UK medical search engine for professionals
Searchthenet is a multisearch engine - 20 engines offered
SearchtheWeb is a directory engine which fails to impress
Searchzooka allows for complex searches across 7 different engines. Worth a look.
Select Surf selects the best sites the web has to offer, apparently
Sency for real time, what's happening this moment information
Similar-site finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similarsites finds similar sites to that which you provide
Similicio.us finds similar sites to that which you provide
Simploos The method of displaying webpages is by horizontal scrolling, with an automatic sliding to make it simple to the searchers.
Silobreaker is the #1 news site out there, bar none
Siteslike is a find similar sites engine
SlideFinder searches for Powerpoint presentations
Slider is a full text search engine that searches DMOZ
SmartLinks provides quick links in a directory structure
SnapBird for Twitter searching
Snappyfingers is a Q&A database, searching FAQs.
Soovle for Google, Wikipedia, Answers, YouTube, Ask, Yahoo, Amazon
Spacetime 3D looks very similar to Redz; visual search engine
Spezify for multisearch visual results
Sproose search and recommend social search engine
Stilltasty is a food date/edibility search engine
Surchur for real time search
Surfcanyon is a general engine
Sunsteam is a directory engine, now 10 years old
Sweetsearch evaluated sources designed for students
Synonyms net is the webs most comprehensive synonym resource
Technorati for blog search
The Net 1 is a directory engine
Thunderstone is a website catalog, directory based engine
Tinker for real time serach didn't impress me in the slightest
TopSite Find the best 10 top websites for almost any subject
Trooker is a great video search engine resource
True Knowledge "is a pioneer in a new class of search technology that allows you to ask questions on the web, just as if you were talking to another human being.
Turboscout is an excellent multi search engine
Tweepsearch for Twitter biography searching
Twurdy checks for readability in search results
WebBrain is a human created set of search resources
WebCrawler is a meta engine for GYAB
Webkruz is a visual search engine
WebNocular It's your bog standard web search engine, which covers web, image, video, news, blogs, wikis, childrens and so on.
Web-Search is a multi search engine that offers 18 resources
WebWorld for quality sites on the web, in a directory style
Whozat is the people search engine
Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine; good but different!
Wozzon is a UK events search engine. Works well
WWW Virtual Library for directory listing of virtual libraries
Xaphoo is a multi search engine but not exciting
Yabigo searches Yahoo, Bing and Google
Yahoo needs no introduction either
Yahoo for kids safe search
Yelbol is a knowledge based (smart) search
Yippy was Clusty. 'Family friendly'. Well...
Yohogo is a multi search engine, but nothing special
Yometa takes the results from Google, Yahoo and Bing and displays them in a Venn diagram
YouTube is for videos, but you knew that already
Zakta is a personalised search engine resource
Zanran helps you to find ‘semi-structured’ data on the web.
Zapmeta searches all the major engines
123 people is a UK people search engine

List of eCommerce/Online Shopping sites in India

In India, E-commerce is increasing at a fast pace. The E-commerce market in India was estimated to be Rs. 19,688 crore in 2009 and is expected to grow to Rs. 37,000 crore this year. There are a whole bunch of shopping sites in India and many are being launched on a monthly basis. People use these sites to shop for things from electronic gadgets, books to fashion apparels etc.

I have tried to create an exhaustive list to create a track of the ecommerce scene in India. Do update the comments section if I have missed any of the sites.

Last updated : 18th August, 2011

1. Gifts, cakes etc.

Infibeam.com,
Fernsnpetals.com,
IndianGiftsPortal.com,
Talash.com
GlimGifts.com

2. Books

Flipkart.com,
Landmarkonthenet.com,
A1books.co.in

3. Custom designed T-shirt, mug, calendar etc

Myntra.com,
Zoomin.com,
Snapfish.in,
Picsquare.com

4. Apparels

Pantaloons,
Shoppersstop.com,
Inkfruit.com,
UtsavSarees.com
Globus
Zovi.com

5. Sweets and bakery items

Mithaimate.com

6. Artwork auction

Saffronart.com

7. A-Z items for Babies

Hushbabies.com,
Firstcry.com,
BalGopal.com,
Kidloo.com
Babyoye.com

8. Movie ticket booking

Bookmyshow.com
PVRCinemas.com

9. Online travel ticketing and hotel booking

Irctc.co.in,
Redbus.in,
MakeMyTrip.com,
Yatra.com,
TripAdvisor.in,
ClearTrip.com,
Travelguru.com,
Expedia.co.in,
Ezeego1.co.in,
Ixigo.com,
TravelMasti.com,
Hotels.com

10. Airlines portals

Goindigo.in,
Indian Airlines,
Jetlite.com,
Flykingfisher.com,
Goair.in,
Spicejet.com,
Jetairways

11. B2C ( Multiple products )

Ebay.in,
IndiaTimes,
Rediff Shopping,
Bigbazar,
Homeshop18.com,
Shop.zapak.com,
Shop.in.com,
Tradeus.in,
Indiaplaza.in,
Egully.com,
20north.com
Timtara.com
YepmeShopping.com
Bigadda.com
BrandsKnot.com
Bevyshop.com
OnlineBuy99.com
FutureBazaar.com

12. Rent a movie

BigFlix.com,
Seventymm.com

13. Footwear

Yebhi.com,
Metro Shoes
Bata Shoes
BeStylish

14. Deal a day

SnapDeal.com,
Dealsandyou.com,
Mydala.com,
Koovs.com,
Grabbon.com,
BindaasBargain.com,
Taggle.com,
SoSasta.com,
Dealivore.com
Grako.in
Dealsonline4u.com
Bagittoday.com
99labels.com
Fashionandyou.com
Timesdeal.com
Rediff-DealHoJaye
Dealface.com
DealYantra.com
Buzzintown Deals
DealsNow (For Corporates)

15. Electronics, Gadgets, Phones

Dell.co.in,
Ezone,
EDigiWorld,
BitFang.com
Letsbuy.com
LootSpot.com
Next.co.in

16. Jewellery

Caratlane.com,
Suratdiamond.com
Ddamas.co.in

17. Lingerie

Straps and Strings,
Ngal Originals,
Victoria’s Secret India

18. Sports

Playgroundonline.com
Esportsbuy.com

19. Health, Fitness, Beauty, Wellness

Health ShoppeUrbantouch

20. Perfumes

Perfume2Order
Beautymart.in
PerfumesDirect

21. Groceries, Vegetables, Fruits

AaramShop.com
Mandifresh

Best Indian Online Shopping Websites - Top 10

Online shopping is becoming popular in India these days. In a country like India, where people has to depend on metro cities for finding commodities with good quality and wide selection, Online shopping offers vast, easy and interesting shopping experience.

Online shopping provides several advantages like 24 hours shopping, which requires less travel, rich product availability and specifications etc. Almost all online shopping sites now offer items in discounted price and free shipping for selected items thereby attracting the net savvy customers to have a try. Unlike conventional shopping the consumer can get a detailed account of the specifications of the commodity through the website.

Online shopping has its drawbacks too, we cannot touch and feel the item, delay in shipping, risk of loosing your money etc are a few.

Ebay and Amazon are the market leaders in online shopping in the world. However local counterparts are more popular in India. Here is a list of popular websites offering online shopping in India. (Read more articles like this at http://www.weeksupdate.com/ )

Home Shop 18

HomeShop18 is a venture of theNetwork18 Group, India's fastest growing media and entertainment Group. Network18 operates India’s leading business news television channels - CNBC TV18 and CNBC Awaaz. HomeShop18 has also launched India’s first 24 hour Home Shopping TV channel. The company has its headquarters in Noida, UP. The website has received the 'Best shopping site" award from PC World Magazine in 2008. http://www.homeshop18.com/

Indiaplaza
Indiaplaza, with operations in Bangalore, Chennai and Austin is now the world's largest India-centric e-commerce company with over one million online transacting customers globally. It offers a catalogue of over 3.5 million items for sale and also has in-house control of web technologies, warehousing and logistics; supported by a 24-hour Customer Service Centre in Bangalore. Indiaplaza offers support to shopping gateways of Sify, Manorama etc.http://www.indiaplaza.in/

Ebay India
eBay.in is the Indian version of the popular online shopping portaleBay.com - world's online marketplace. Ebay has a diverse and passionate community of individuals and small businesses. Ebay offers used and fresh items with a wide network of international shipping.http://www.ebay.in/ (Read more articles like this atwww.weeksupdate.com )

Naaptol
Launched in January 2008, Naaptol has grown to become India's leading comparison based social shopping portal, the one-stop destination for all shoppers, merchants and market enthusiasts.http://www.naaptol.com/

Future Bazaar
FutureBazaar.com is owned and operated by Future Bazaar India Ltd. (FBIL), the people behind Pantaloon Retails, Bigbazaar shopping mall. FBIL is the e-commerce arm of the Future Group. The company was incorporated in 2006 and began business in 2007. Future Bazaar has its office and customer care (24 X 7) at Mumbai.http://www.futurebazaar.com/

Indiatimes
Indiatimes shopping has the widest range of consumer electronic items at lowest prices. The portal is supported by the Times of India group and offers support mostly in the north western part of India.http://www.shopping.indiatimes.com/

45 Awesome Websites to Watch Online TV for FREE!

If you don’t have cable at home or if you just want to watch TV and movies while your using your PC, then you should check out the list below which lists the best free online TV services I’ve discovered. Please DIGG/ STUMBLE/ Bookmark the post if you like it.

1. Streamick – More then 300 real TV channels to choose from including NBC, ABC, ESPN, BBC1 and many more, organized in categories and ranked by the site users.

2. Free TV – Lists thousands of TV links, Movie links, and Live TV channels online.

3. Hulu – Hulu is a popular website that offers the option to legally download full episodes and video clips of your favorite network shows and major motion films. The quality of the video is smooth and clear. Hulu has organized the selection of shows based on categories like “Comedy,” or “Action and Adventure,” so finding your favorite show is easy.

4. TV Links – A directory that lists the most popular tv shows, cartoon & anime series.

5. Sidereel – Loads of TV shows and Movies listed here.

6. Veoh – Veoh’s downloadable player acts like a VCR; you can save movies to it for later viewing. Although it’s possible to watch videos online on the Flash version of the Veoh player, the focus is on offline (or at least desktop) viewing, and videos longer than 45 minutes can be viewed only on the desktop player. Available videos include both user generated content as well as professionally produced, sometimes copyrighted stuff.

7. ViewMy.tv

8. Surf The Channel – Animes, TV Shows, movies for free!

9. Zattoo – A p2p-based online television with a downloadable client focused on European (over 50) channels. Unfortunately, it won’t work if you’re not from one of the supported countries. So don’t blame me later on!

10. Great Stuff TV – No live channels, but recorded shows of popular TV series available plus movies.

11. Sling – Over the years, Sling has improved the content a great deal. It offers popular channels like FX, CBS, NBC, FOX, and SciFi. The variety of shows Sling offers is impressive, with full length episodes identified by a TV image next to the show title.

12. Tidal TV – The navigation is in the standard TV Guide table format. The site design is excellent and the video quality is absolutely stunning.

13. Inner-Live – No need to register, download or install anything. All you need is a broadband internet connection. Inner-Live is pretty comprehensive and lists most of the popular news and other channels, including Discovery, ESPN sports, ABC News, CNN, Sky News, NBA TV, MSNBC etc.

14. TvWeb360 – TVWeb360 gives you free access to over 1000 TV stations from around the world in 15 languages including English, French, Spanish etc. Browse channels by category (news, sports, music, lifestyle, games and more).

15. My P2P Sports – MyP2P is a website where you can watch almost any sport game live for free. Whether it is a Football, MLB, NHL, NBA, Cricket, Tennis etc, in most cases it can be watched live on MyP2P.

16. TV Channels Free – TVChannelsFree is a website that aggregates and nicely sorts almost 3000 TV channels from over the world. All listed channels can be watched for free. You can stream live TV channels from over 60 different countries – starting from popular new channels like BBC, CNN and EuroSports to local channels in United States.

17. Livestation - There are almost 1300 channels to watch, but you need to download their client on to the desktop before viewing.

18. Channel Chooser – Great collection of streaming TV channels

19. Channel King – Large selection of free tv in many categories including adult.

20. wwiTV – Although basic, this site has been around forever and probably has the most extensive range of channels.

21. Choose And Watch – Another slick interface to watch those free streams from.

22. ALLUC.org – TV Shows, movies, Animes & music

23. TV Cells – Tv shows and movies arranged as per categories.

24. Tape It On the Internet – Over 2,000+ TV shows or 90,000+ episodes, including all the big shows like Lost, Prison Break, etc

25. PP Stream – Sports, movies – all in one please. Just choose a show from the list of available channels, site is in chinese though.

26. ABC – Watch popular shows like Lost, Desperate Housewives, Alias etc online. Works for US only.

27. NGTV – NGTV, which is short for No Good TV, is imilar to what kids see on TV everyday: lots of music & entertainment, lots of foul language, and long, long intros for every episode.

28. PeekVid – A selection of downloadable TV shows and movies, including some very popular ones like Buffy, 24, Pimp My Ride and others. Also includes a quite comprehensive selection of anime.

29. Streaming TV Episodes – ABC, NBC, CBS and FOX free TV episodes in one place. It’s not much, but it’ll save you some time.

30. PPLive - a popular service for watching many foreign channels

31. My Easy TV – Easy to use TV streams site with the usual channels.

32. Tv-Links – Huge collection of Tv shows, cartoons, movies and animes.

33. Tele Shows – Superb quality content of all popular TV shows.

34. TV Duck – Slick interface with loads of popular TV channels and shows

35. Free Online Channels – Indian (Hindi) TV Channels

36. Squid TV – Extensive list of free tv from every country in the world

37. TV-Video – All the latest TV shows as they aired including 24, Smallville, Prison Break, Lost etc. I found it to be a bit slow to start with.

38. Your TV Links – An ugly, but quite comprehensive list of TV shows, cartoons, anime, music and commercial

39. Beeline TV – Simple TV streaming site sorted by country and including a sports stream page.

40. World TV PC – TV Channels all over the world available! Choose by category or choose by country.

41. Crafty TV – Filter by Country or filter by genre of TV channels.

42. 101 Lives – Movies, cartoons, Animes, TV shows, Radio and many more.

43. TV Dash – Movies, TV Shows and games

44. TV junk – No live TV, but all latest episodes of popular TV shows available.

45. TV Shack – Superb interface, easy to navigate, lots of popular TV shows.

Any more to add? Any good site I have missed? Any site turned to premium? Any site taken off? Whatever it is, please leave your comments below and do not forget to bookmark / digg / stumble the page if you like it !!