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Academic Info	Dogpile	Lycos	Teoma ⁽⁷⁾ (find metasites, news, and more...)
AlltheWeb ⁽²⁾	Excite	MSN Search ⁽⁶⁾	Vivisimo
AltaVista ⁽³⁾	Google ⁽¹⁾	Northern Light ⁽⁸⁾	WiseNut ⁽⁴⁾
Daypop (for news, current events)	HotBot ⁽⁵⁾	Scirus (for science only)	Yahoo!
Direct Search	IxQuick	StartSpot