It offers a fairly large index and integrates non-web material such as company information and sports scores into its results, when appropriate. FAST Search Formerly called All The Web, FAST Search aims to index the entire web. It was the first search engine to break the 200 million web page index Infoseek is a portal site that consistently provides quality results in response to many general and broad searches. It also has an impressive human-compiled directory of web sites. GoTo unlike the other major search engines, sells its main listings.
Companies can pay money to be placed higher in the search results.
Google is a search engine that makes heavy use of link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. HotBot is a favorite among researchers due to its many power searching features. LookSmart is a human-compiled directory of web sites. In addition to being a stand-alone service, LookSmart provides directory results to MSN Search, Excite and many other partners. Lycos is another up and coming encyclopedic search engine.