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Searching beyond Google and Yahoo: nine online search engines compared

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Name	A9	AltaVista	AOL Search	Ask Jeeves	Google	LookSmart	Lycos	MSN Search	Yahoo Search
Rating	6.7	5.7	6.3	6.3	8	5	5.3	6	7.7
Searches
News	x¹	x	x	x	x		x	x	x
Local	x		x	x	x		x	x	x
Maps	x		x	x	x		x		x
Driving directions	x		x	x	x		x		x
Audio		x	x				x	x⁷	x
Video		x	x				x		x
Video thumbnails		x	x⁴						x
Images	x	x	x	x	x		x	x	x
Discussions/blogs	x				x		x¹⁰
Reference	x			x⁵				x⁸
Periodicals						x
Shopping	x²		x	x	x		x	x	x
People				x	x		x		x
Family-safe filter	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x	x
Features
Toolbar	x	x	x	x	x			x	x
Pop-up blocker		x	x	x	x			x	x
Bookmarks	x			x⁶					x
Desktop search				x	x			x	x
Search history	x		x	x
Cached pages	x			x	x			x	x
Related pages		x	x	x	x				x
Page viewer								x
Site preview				x
Translation		x			x
Movie listings	x³		x	x	x			x	x
Diary	x
Site rank info	x
Page archiving tool						x
Real-time search suggestions			x
Help section/FAQs	x	x	x	x	x	x⁹	x	x	x
Wireless/SMS					x				x

Red = one-of-a-kind feature
1 New York Times only
2 Amazon book search only
3 Movie info, but no local showtimes
4 AOL Broadband results only
5 Dictionary search
6 Saved search results
7 MSN Music search
8 Encarta (for pay)
9 Help for FindArticles only
10 Searches Web forums and discussions

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