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The Engine Room:
A Compendium of Internet Search Engines

  • Yahoo!
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  • Alta Vista
  • Alta Vista: The Largest Web Index
    Find pointers to your home page; find an old friend; find out what the other indexes missed. You have access to all 8 billion words found in over 16 million Web pages.

    Alta Vista: The Freshest News
    A full-text index of over 13,000 news groups updated in real-time. We'll give you the articles too.

    Search and Display the Results

  • Lycos
  • Find:
    Lycos catalog A2Z directory Point reviews
    Lycos Help

  • WebCrawler
  • Enter some words and start your search:

    Find pages with of these words and return results.

    Webcrawler help

  • LiveLink Pinstripe
  • Livelink Pinstripe ensures highly targeted searches, indexing only the Web pages that are pertinent to business users. It is the first Internet search site designed specifically for business users.

  • The Excite database search
  • Twice the power of the competition.
    What:
    Where: [Help]
    [Advanced Search]

  • Metacrawler
  • The MetaCrawler works by querying a number of existing, free search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, and displays them. The MetaCrawler sends your queries to six different services: Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Yahoo, and Galaxy.

    Go2Net MetaCrawler search:

         
      any all phrase    

  • SavvySearch
  • SavvySearch is an experimental search system designed to query multiple internet search engines simultaneously.

  • InfoSeek
  • Infoseek Guide is your roadmap to the Internet! Search and browse Web pages, Usenet newsgroups, FTP and Gopher sites, and more!
    Search for information about:

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  • Magellan
  • Magellan is an online guide to the Internet that includes original editorial content, a directory of rated and reviewed Internet sites, a vast database of yet-to-be-reviewed sites, and a powerful search engine that helps you find what you're looking for. Browse Magellan topics or perform a search and a list of sites that matches your area of interest will appear instantly. Magellan includes Web sites, FTP and gopher servers, newsgroups, and Telnet sessions.
    Search for:

  • Hotbot
  • HotBot Search the Web for
    A unique search engine that is capable of indexing and searching every word on the World Wide Web. Powered by Inktomi's advanced parallel-processing engine.
  • TradeWave Search
  • New Riders Official WWW Yellow Pages
  • Aliweb Search
  • CUSI Search Engine

  • The Internet Sleuth
    For those quick keyword searches on hundreds of databases

  • Switchboard
    Search engine of people and businesses -- Look up over 90 million people from on and off the internet. Search through a list of over 10 million business.

  • Bigbook
    A new kind of yellow pages, with locator maps available. Enter an address and zoom in on the area.
    • Over 11 million U.S. businesses
    • See any business in the U.S. on a Map.
    • Pinpoint your search with Advanced Search Options.

  • Anywho Directories
    AT&T Labs is trialing an advanced World Wide Web-based directory service site, AnyWhoSM Directory Service, which integrates traditional business and consumer white and yellow pages telephone listings with enhanced, Internet-based contact information such as E-mail Addresses and Web Site URLs. Toll Free and FAX numbers can also be listed.

  • DevSearch

    "The Search Engine for people who build the Web". A search engine which only searches specific sites which are known for the quality of their "web development" information.


  • Debriefing

    "Debriefing is a meta search engine. A meta search engine queries other search engines. Debriefing currently uses AltaVista, Yahoo, Infoseek, Excite, Webcrawler and Lycos in the english version. In the french version, it uses Yahoo France, PagesWeb, Ecila, Infoseek France, Excite France and Lokace too.

    Debriefing forwards those queries in parallel to those search services, collates the results, and ranks them. It removes duplicates, and gives you the most significant domain name for your search."


  • Google
    Search the web using Google

    Google, a prototype of a large-scale search engine which makes heavy use of the structure present in hypertext. Google is designed to crawl and index the Web efficiently and produce much more satisfying search results than existing systems. The prototype is a full text and hyperlink database of at least 24 million pages. Google runs under Linux

  • Links2Go

    Links2Go is the result of over 10 person years of research into Machine Learning and Intelligent Agent technology. Once a month, we sample millions of pages from the World Wide Web and analyze those pages to discover relationships between tens of millions of links and thousands of cross-referenced topics. Links2Go provides an interface to these relationships, allowing websurfers to browse links by topic, find links and topics related to an interesting link, and to search for links and topics .


  • Northern Light

    Northern Light Search over 100 Million Web pages and the Special Collection[tm] of more than 5,000 full text sources.



    Ask Jeeves

    Jeeves lets you ask a question the way you'd ask it in the real world. Jeeves understands your question in your words.


  • Datahit

    "Datahit Metasearch is a search service freely provided for the Internet community. It takes the query from the user, asks several search engines like Yahoo or Altavista about it, and gives the results to the user, throwing away duplicates, and ranking them for the user's comfort. This allows the user to search more efficiently on the web. Cool, eh? "

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    Software Search

    Archie Search

    CGI Archie a simple convenient front end to the Archie search. It allows one to search through FTP servers for a particular file (usually software). Once it locates the software, Archie returns a list of selectable files to automatically transfer to the client machine.

  • Harvest Search Engine Harvest is an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet. With modest effort users can tailor Harvest to digest information in many different formats, and offer custom search services on the Internet. Moreover, Harvest makes very efficient use of network traffic, remote servers, and disk space.

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