List of General Search Engines

List of General Search Engines

	Live Search (formerly Windows Live Search and MSN Search) is the name of Microsoft’s web search engine, designed to compete with the industry leaders Google and Yahoo!. Live Search is accessible through Microsoft’s Live.com and MSN.com web portal. Currently, Live Search is the fourth most used search engine after Google, Baidu, and Yahoo!
	Google search is a web search engine owned by Google, Inc., and is the most used search engine on the Web. Google receives several hundred million queries each day through its various services.Google search was originally developed by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1997.
	Offers search for web sites, images, news, blogs, video, maps and directions, local search and shopping.Ask.com is a search engine started in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California.
	AltaVista provides the most comprehensive search experience on the Web!
	Search tool owned by Yahoo and using its database, but presenting results differently. Also offers news, picture, video, and audio search.
	Netscape operates a search engine, Netscape Search, powered by AOL Search. Another version of Netscape Search can be found at netscape.com/search, which has since been incorporated into Propeller.
	Yahoo! Inc. is an American public corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, (in Silicon Valley), that provides Internet services worldwide. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine, Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, news, and social media websites and services. Yahoo! was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.
	MSN is Microsoft’s portal, offering MSNBC News, sports, MSN Money, games, videos, entertainment & celebrity gossip, weather, shopping and more great content