| Table 1: Internet search engines |
| Name | Address | Description |
| AltaVista | http://altavista.digital.com/ | Provides access to largest WWW index, including 30 million pages from 275 600 servers and 3 million articles from 14 000 Usenet groups. |
| CUSI | http://Web.nexor.co.UK/susi/cusi.html | Different from the other search engines in that it allows users to access several WWW search engines. Offers a configurable search interface for many searchable WWW resources; can check related sources without the user having to retype keywords. |
| Excite | http://www.excite.com | Covers the full text of 11.5 million WWW pages. Updated weekly. Includes Usenet newsgroups, hourly news, commentary and reviews. |
| Find Newsgroups | http://www.cen.uiuc.edu/cgi-bin/find-news | Identifies Usenet newsgroup whose names or brief descriptions match the search criteria. |
| InfoSeek | http://www2.infoseek.com/ | Reviews popular Internet resources including WWW, Usenet newsgroups, FTP and Gopher sites. Reviews are cross-referenced. Includes a "find similar" function to search for similar sites. |
| Lycos | http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu | Identifies sites, including text, graphics, sounds and videos. Users can enter search criteria in plain-text format. |
| Magellan | http://magellan.mckinley.com | Contains listings for about 4 million sites and includes reviews and ratings of over 45 000 sites. |
| WebCrawler | http://webcrawler.com/ | Provides a WWW index, reviews of WWW pages and other services. |
| Yahoo | http://www.yahoo.com | A comprehensive cross-disciplinary resource base. An editorial filter limits sites included in the search. Includes a separate directory of sources relating to health care. Tends to identify business and entertainment sites. |
| WWW = World Wide Web. FTP = file transfer protocol. |