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Usability - Good-Looking Search Engine Web Sites

The entries on this Page are the Top Twenty (almost) in the Search Engine Category ...
We include more than 10 because this is an important category.
Nr. NAME COMMENT
1 Google Simple - in fact, minimalistic
=1 Google Images See above.
2 AllTheWeb Very basic, like Google, (KPI is Nr.1)
3 Ask Jeeves (US & UK) The Home Page consists of one search box, and a number of clickable links,(KPI is Nr.2).
4 Direct Hit Excellent results and well-designed,(KPI is Nr.2).
5 Yahoo The original and perhaps still the Best,(KPI is Nr.1).
6 DogPile The Home Page consists of one search box, and a lot of clickable links.
Excellent results, but no KPI.
7 UK Max UK specific - A Portal and "A straightforward UK Guide to the Internet".
8 UK Plus UK specific,(KPI not listed - submitted 1st.July).
9 Dev Search A Search Engine for Databases and Developers
10 Thunderstone An independent R & D Company offering a Document Retrieval & Management Facility
11 Mamma "The Mamma of all Search Engines", simple with one Search Bix and some links.
12 Northern Light The Home Page consists of one search box, and a lot of clickable links, including "Todays Headlines" !!!
13 Lycos The Home Page has Search Bix and a boring list of Links
14 About.Com Recommended - a Search Engine and a Portal.
15 GoTo.Com Recommended - "search made simple".
16 LookSmart A Portal, a Search Engine and a Radio Station !!!
17 Webcrawler One of the originals
18 Yawanna Connecticut's Source for What Ya Wanna Do
19 Yureka Uses a Meta-Crawler which returns the results from 10 Search Engines
20 BabelFish It's really a Translation Engine
  SearchEngineWatch Recommended - comparisons,submission tricks, tutorials,etc..

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