Top Search Engines

Search engines for the general web do not really search the internet directly. It searches a database of the full text of the web pages .

Search engine databases are selected and built by computer programs called spiders which find the pages for potential inclusion by following the links in the pages they already have in their database. People can also submit links to search engines.

Google (Google India) has the largest database and is the best search engine. However Google may not always get you your results. Use these :

• AllTheWeb
• Teoma (Now Ask.com)
  
• Yahoo! Search

or meta-search engines (engines that get results from other search engines) like

• Dogpile
  
• Clusty.

Pages that are excluded from search engines are referred to as the "Invisible Web" -- what you don't see in search engine results. The Invisible Web is estimated to be two to three or more times bigger than the visible web!!!