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SEARCH AND EXPLORATION TOOLS

Visit Danny Sullivan's site Search Engine Watch to get  comprehensive and up-to-date information about which search engine to use.  Read a description of the major search engines to find the one that will best serve your searching needs.


Popular search engines and search directories:

All 4 One Search Machine
This search system from Easypage sends your keywords to simultaneously to Alta Vista, Lycos, Yahoo and Webcrawler.
Alta Vista
Digital's search engine that gives you access to nearly 11 billion words found in nearly 22 million Web pages. Includes A full-text index of over 13,000 news groups updated in real-time.
Ask Jeeves
A natural language search engine that allows you to enter a English sentence or a query of key words.
DogPile
Another meta-search engine that allows you to submit queries to multiple search services from one engine.  It also offers directory-based searches of web pages that are cataloged by humans.
Excite
A search engine with a database of over 1.5 million web pages.
Go/Infoseek
 
Google Search
 
Lycos Search Engine
Served by Carnegie Mellon University, with links to over 16 million docs, allow search on document titles and content.
Webcrawler
A tool that allows you to search for any information found on the internet.
Yahoo!
In incredibly extensive index of links by topic or searchable by key word. The name Yahoo! supposedly comes from "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle" and because its creators considered themselves yahoos.

Other ways to search the Web:

  • Interesting Links to Other W3 Servers: An extensive list of information sites compiled by the Natural History Museum, Berne, Switzerland.

  • Nova Inter-Links: Is an extensive Internet navigator from Nova Southeastern University.

  • The Clearinghouse for Subject-oriented Internet Guides: You can browse by topic or search for key words. Topics include: Arts & Entertainment, Business & Employment, Education, Engineering & Technology, Environment, Government & Law, Health & Medicine, Humanities, News & Publishing, Regional Information, Science, and Social Sciences & Social Issues.

 

 

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