A Comparison of some Search Engines -- looking for "baduk"

I searched past Usenet news messages using Deja News - this gave 31 hits. I also used a Deja News Power Search - and got about 200 hits. Of course, cannot add URL!

I also used another 24 ordinary search engines. I have put them roughly in order of their value to me. You might well want to put them in a different order for your purposes.

• Alta Vista - 3597 results. Powerful search methods. You canot add your URL. You can search for all pages which link to a particular page -- when I did this for a page of mine the number of answers was never the same twice -- answers varied from 39 to 93, and the order kept changing !! -- drove me mad!! -- their "support" staff told me that this was normal behaviour ...
• Northern Light - 2521 hits. Allows complex searches, and the results are very well organized ... 1222 in S Korea, including 81 items in korealink.co.kr for, etc; 156 in baduk.chosun.com; 401 in personal pages; 763 commercial sites; etc. You can very easily register a whole site via the "Register URL" link at Northern Light's Home page.
• Dogpile - The sum of about a dozen other searches, including the largest. Calls almost the other major search engines -- displays results separately for each ... Cannot yet add URL from the Dogpile Home page
• AOL - 26 hits, but ... N.B. a search of Web pages gives 1526 hits. Can add URL to their list.
• InfoSeek - 1216 hits. Has search within results Can search for pages which link to a given page (using "link:...") [I found 19 at which linked to my old page at www.eng.ox.ac.uk -- 2 of them new to me]. Can add URL
• The "Fast" search engine - 1738 hits. Cannot add URL
• Snap - approx 1200 hits. Can add a URL once you have got to: "Home: Sports: Indoor Recreation: Board Games: Go"
• Euro Seek - 760 hits. Cannot add URL
• Google - 750 hits. Can display 100 per page. Use Google Scout to get list of pages which link to a given page. (This gave 30 for my www.goban.demon.co.uk site) can use link: 25 for eng -- 4 new ones. Cannot add URL
• Excite - 510 hits. Can add URL
• Lycos - 334 hits. Can add URL easily
• C4 - Parallel Search Technology - FASTER search - 51 hits or C4 - Parallel Search Technology - SMARTER search - 358 hits. Seem to be able to register a URL ...
• LookSmart - 200 hits. Cannot add URL
• Euro Ferret - 201 hits -- up-to-date, and prioritized -- more if not prioritized ... Can add URL, but this is not very easy.
• GoTo - 145 hits -- had to page through (40 per page) to find this out! If you pay $US 25.00, can add URL from GoTo's Home Page
• HotBot - 138 hits. Seemingly can add URL via HotBot's Add URL page
• Direct Hit - bad interface! -- 138 hits. Can add own URL
• dmoz - Open Directory Project - 120 results. Cannot add an URL.
• Netscape - about 100 hits. You Can add your site to 11 engines -- I succeeded in doing this eventually. I needed to sign up for Netcenter -- free, then got an automatic sign-on with "Web Site Garage" -- would register with any/all of: Alta Vista, ComFind, Excite, Hotbot, Infoseek, Lycos, Netscape Search, Northern Light, Planet Search, Pronet, The YellowPages, or WebCrawler.
• Yahoo -- about 60 hits. Can add own URL
• Thunderstone - 46 hits. Cannot add my site -- maybe DNS broken -- maybe USA only?!
• InFind - 33 hits. Cannot add URL.
• a handy guide is the same as handy links - 20 hits. Can submit own URL
• WebCrawler - 29 hits. Can add URL

... My home page