From Paul Gil,
Your Guide to Internet for Beginners.
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Honorable Mentions: (search engines & directories that received votes or comments, but did not quite make the top 10)

• Mem00ry.com
  
• A9.com
  
• Mamma.com
  
• Ujiko.com
  
• Business.com
  
• Completeplanet.com
  
• Canada.com
  
• Ithaki.net
• Canoe.ca
• AOL search

Top Search Directory, Number 10: DMOZ.org

USER RATING: 2.3 Stars out of 5

To be technically correct, The Open Directory Project (DMOZ.org, formerly NewHoo) is a search "directory", not a search "engine". This means: the content at DMOZ.org is hand-picked by human editors, not by robot programs.

Sponsored by Netscape, and employing 50,000 volunteer experts as editors, the ODP (DMOZ.org) has about 4 million links in its database. Although less than 1% the size of Google, DMOZ.org is packed with helpful hand-picked Internet links that have been filtered by human judgment.

PROS: DMOZ content is hand-picked by subject matter experts; irrelevant content is usually filtered out well.
CONS: Content quality varies with the quality of volunteerism, slow to update, ranking is inconsistent, not good for news or current events content.
USERS' COMMENTS::"good for researching evergreen content, but it's clunky."
EDITOR'S COMMENT: A great philanthropic search idea, but is eclipsed by the money monsters of Yahoo and Google.

Top Search Engine, Number 9: Alltheweb.com

USER RATING: 3.1 Stars out of 5

Effectively, Alltheweb.com is the search engine version of Yahoo. Alltheweb.com was originally owned by Overture, which was then bought by Yahoo. Now, Alltheweb allows you to search Yahoo content, but with a spartan look and feel that resembles Google.

PROS: excellent video and photo searching features, clean and fast interface, the designers ask users for relevancy feedback.
CONS: obscured by weak marketing, index is only half the size of Google's.
USERS' COMMENTS:: "Looks like Google". "Clean look". "Fast".
EDITOR'S COMMENT: Yahoo should consider blending this search engine into its existing Yahoo.com name for better branding.

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