# Searching out of bounds (Internet Related). **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 2, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268 "2003-01-02T21:08:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Farmer2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Farmer2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer2)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/1 "2003-01-02T21:08:23Z")
I’m looking to search some web sites out of the US. I notice that when I use Yahoo! and Google the results are pretty much the same. Their databases must be linked together. And I have a feeling that there is a lot more info out there than what Yahoo!, Google, Northernlight, Lyco’s and Webcrawler can give me. I’ve tried using Yahoo! Austrailia, Europe, Canada and so on… But results still a very similar. Are there any search engines in different country’s that I can use that are in English but will give much different results in a search? Or is Yahoo! and Google and the like already tied up internationally. I know I sometimes stumble across foreign sites on searches but that must be because the foreign websites were registered with Yahoo! and Google. Sounds crazy I know. I believe Yahoo! and Google type company’s are US based, so obviously people from the US would register their sites with the US search engines. So what I’m asking is what would be major search engines of primarily English speaking countries that would give me a big difference in search results? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Some\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Some\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Some_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/2 "2003-01-02T22:33:46Z")
Yahoo’s web search (i. e., not their own directory search, but the broad web search) **is** Google. They pay Google a fair amount of scratch to be able to repackage their search on their own pages. Altavista, OTOH, is owned by Compaq; when Google seems to be failing me (due to some peculiarity of the search itself), I can usually try the same search with them and find what i want. One fo the big problems with websearching these days is that they compromise completeness, giving you only the “most relevant” results, in order to serve those results more quickly. If your definition of “most relevany” doesn’t match theirs, it may well be worthwhile to look at the next few pages of results, just to see if there’s anything worthwhile there. ---
**Author:** ![Mops](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mops/32/16494_2.png) [@Mops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mops)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/3 "2003-01-02T22:47:47Z")
In terms of database size [alltheweb](http://www.alltheweb.com/) is about equal to Google, you might try that when you draw a blank in Google. ---
**Author:** ![Wysiwig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/b2d939/32.png) [@Wysiwig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wysiwig)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2003, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/4 "2003-01-02T23:10:40Z")
If I want to stay in the UK I put UK in Google before the rest of the search. If you know what countries you want to search try entering the country code first? ---
**Author:** ![Farmer2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@Farmer2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer2)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/5 "2003-01-03T00:31:22Z")
tschild: That seems to be pretty good search engine. Searches turned up some more sites that I never new existed. Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![tanstaafl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba8739/32.png) [@tanstaafl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tanstaafl)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/6 "2003-01-03T16:00:03Z")
I like to use Dogpile ([www.dogpile.com](http://www.dogpile.com)), which searches through several different search engines. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2003, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/searching-out-of-bounds-internet-related/146268/7 "2003-01-03T19:28:21Z")
Yahoo and AOL use Google. (Yahoo recently bought Inktomi so they probably will switch to that eventually. Guaranteed to go down as a Great Business Blunder.) MSN is the most heavily used search engine not powered by Google. In terms of #of seaches (vs database size), the rest are small spuds.