Search engines are web based tools that provide information to the searchers according to their search query in the most effective way. The information presented by the search engines will be in different forms like web pages, images and other types of files. The search engines operate based on certain algorithms, at the same time taking in to consideration the search inputs. Archie was the oldest form of search engine. Now Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Lycos etc are the leading search engines reigning the field. The search engines use robots which crawl and find out the web pages present in the World Wide Web. These pages will be stored in the indexes of the search engines to be retrieved according to the relevance when the users search the web.

AltaVista

Jun 13, 2010 |

A leading provider of search services and technology provides comprehensive search experience on the web.

ASK

Jun 13, 2010 |

Search engine with innovative search technologies that deliver fast and relevant information for millions of people every day.

Bing

Jun 13, 2010 |

Search engine that finds and organizes the answers people need so that they can make faster, more informed decisions.

Dogpile

Jun 13, 2010 |

Search engine has all the popular search engines piled in to one to make web searching easy.

Google

Jun 13, 2010 |

Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search and shopping.

Lycos

Jun 13, 2010 |

Source for search, online games, e-mail, blogs and websites, videos and movies, news, weather and more.

WebCrawler

Jun 13, 2010 |

Offers a single source to search the web, images, video, and news from Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask and many more search engines.