Search Tools

A search engine is a document retrieval system, and the term is usually used in the context of a tool used for finding information on the World Wide Web. Listed below are a few of the more common ones:

Another type of search engine, called a Metasearch tool, submits queries to a number of diferent search engines, thus providing a larger number of hits. Examples of such search engines are given below:

The huge volume of web pages available has generated a large market for search tools, and the search engine guide web site shows you how many there are.