Search Engines

Here are some useful WWW Search Engines:

• Alta Vista: Main Page. You can also use Alta Vista to search for images
• Yahoo! Search entry point--can search the Web and Usenet as well as Yahoo's own index
• Lycos knows of almost four million Web pages (Gopher and ftp, too)
• Open Text Web Index (has sophisticated search parameter specification)
• CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Page)
• The Venerable World Wide Web Worm
• All-In-One Page with access to over 80 search tools (a link from Albany Net)
• SavvySearch will try three search engines automatically for sixty seconds
• excite Netsearch
• Infoseek entry points:
  • Infoseek Internet Searches
  • InfoSeek Net Search (a different access point to InfoSeek)
  • Infoseek Ultra
• WebCrawler
• Disinformation is a decidedly odd search engine--it has fixed links to all sorts of singular sites
• Software Methods and Tools by Tony Wasserman gives some ways to help search the Internet for information
• Ask Jeeves (tradmark of Ask Jeeves, Inc.): Plain questions with multiple answers, including multiple searches by popular search engines
• KnowX searches legal records, some for free
• Multi-searchers:
  • Metacrawler
  • Inference
  • Dogpile
  • SavvySearch
  • Profusion
  • Avenue Search
  • OneSeek
• There are also desktop clients, like Web Ferret and Copernic, which run on your desktop machines. There is a charge to obtain full version of these, however.
• There is even a web page on web searching, with search engine news, recommndations, and so on.
• A multi-media search engine
• Search Engine Watch gives all sorts of interesting information and guides to using search engines.