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Search Tools
This section is for tools that allow you to search for information on
the Internet. It's sorted into the same categories used by PC Magazine
in their reviws of search tools, except that directories are in the Catalogs
and Lists section (which is where you'll find Yahoo).
Search Indexes
- Alta Vista, accessed from
Digital's home page, Alpha-based search engine
- Direct Hit, ranks by popularity,
" tracks the sites that people actually select from the search
results list".
- diito.com, search for pictures
- Excite, features annotated search
results and listings
- FAST Search, "all of
the web, all of the time"
- Google, produces highly relevant
results by rating links to sites, currently my #1 search engine
- HotBot, a search site originally
by Wired Magazine, now part of Lycos
- LookSmart, designed for families,
owned by Reader's Digest
- Lycos
- MSN Search, Microsoft's entry
in the search engine sweepstakes
- Search.internet,com, search
the internet.com portal, various magazines and tech-related sites
- Northern Light, can search
the Web or a propietary special collection
- Search Engine Watch,
this isn't a search engine per se, but is a site that provides much
information about how search engines work.
- WebCrawler, large database
with simple search form, now owned by Excite
People Finders
- AllWhois, search any domain
name in the world
- Bigfoot, search for email addresses
- Canada411, search for
Canadian phone numbers
- Four11, search for email addresses
and US phone numbers
- InfoSpace, can do Canadian
and reverse-directory lookups
- Internet Address Finder, find Internet
users by name or email address
- WhoWhere, can search
for email, phone and address, or web location, now a part of Lycos
- WorldPages, for searching
outside the US
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Business Finders
Usenet
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Metasearch
- All-in-One Search Page,
access to several search engines but may be slow
- Ask Jeeves, use natural language
queries
- Beaucoup Search Engine Page,
lists many search engines, by category
- 08/19/01 Cribb Notes Web
Search Engines page, good information about search engines and lists
grouped by category
- MetaCrawler, sends a search
query to several search engines, can search by category
- Prime Search,
search multiple search engines
- ProFusion
- Research It!, a front page
to many different search tools.
- A Search Engine for Your
Site, a page listing many search engines and links to search engines
that you can add to your site.
- Search Engine Colossus,
an international directory of search engines, organized by country.
- Worldwide Web Search
Engines, a large list of search pages by category.
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