Internet Search Engines
Yahoo
The pioneer Internet guide, Yahoo! has been indexing Web content almost
from the beginning. Yahoo! is updated daily, allowing users to browse
and search subject categories.
MetaCrawler
The MetaCrawler Parallel Web Search Service. Metasearch engines search
through the indexes stored by many different search engines. Multiple
keywords may be used.
Ixquick
A powerful metasearch engine.
Alta Vista
Rapidly become a favorite of many Web users because of its super-fast
speed and massive database, Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista
engine rapidly searches through what may be the largest Web index. Alta
Vista stores and retrieves all of the eight billion words it
has found during full-text searches of more than 30 million Web pages.
Excite
If you can't describe exactly what you're looking for, Excite's "concept"
navigation method could help you find it. This Web index is deep and
broad, covering the full text of 11.5 million pages. It is updated weekly.
Excite's team of expert journalists offer reviews of 55,000 sites.
WebCrawler
This famous site is a veteran search engine which offers high-speed
Web research with a random-links feature to find new and unusual sites.
Use WebCrawler to search WWW document content. It publishes a list of
the 25 most visited sites on the Web.
Lycos
Lycos is a comprehensive catalog of the Internet which can find what
you need in seconds, including text, graphics, sounds, and videos. It
has been called one of the top eleven Internet search engines in quality
of information and relevancy of results.
InfoSeek
InfoSeek Guide is another popular Web-search service which can help
you find what you're looking for on the Internet. After each search,
you are presented with what the engine surmises to be the most relevant
matches to your keyword(s) as well as related topics to explore.
HotBot
HotWired and Inktomi provide HotBot, a search engine indexing the entire
World Wide Web every week, which they say has indexed 54 million Web
pages. Your searches can be limited by date, domain or continent. Searches
can be made for Java, VRML and Netscape plug-ins.
Metasearch
Metasearch engines search through the indexes stored by many different
search engines. Multiple keywords may be used.
Other Search Engines
Beaucoup's
Listing of Search Engines: Education
Search information under reference, literature, education, and school
categories. An exhaustive site.
c|net's shareware.com
c|net's shareware.com finds software on the Internet. Some 170,000 files
can be searched out and downloaded from shareware and corporate archives
on the Internet. This engine has been said to do for software what Yahoo
does for finding Web sites.
DejaNews
DejaNews indexes Usenet newsgroups. It uses a weighted search
criteria that sorts information based on the number of occurrences of
the word being sought.
Electric Library
The Electric Library makes comprehensive searches through its database
of more than 1,000 full-text newspapers, magazines and academic journals;
images; reference books; literature; and art.
Liszt
Liszt is a searchable directory of 37,000 e-mail discussion groups.
Search.com
Find specialty search engines to search just the area in which you are
interested