WWW Search Engines

Infoseek

Infoseek is a comprehensive and accurate WWW search engine. You can search for a topic using key words and phrases, or try special query operators for more complex searches:

Lycos

The Lycos search engine, formerly at Carnegie Mellon University, will allow you to search on document titles and content. Its database contains 4 million link descriptors and keywords drawn from over 1 million documents.

Open Text Index

The Open Text Corporation claims to have the largest single database of WWW pages.

Excite

excite! is a recently developed Web Search utility, with the added feature that it can search for specific articles in a number of newsgroup archives.

Webcrawler

Webcrawler allows searches by document title and content. It is part of the WebCrawler project, managed by Brian Pinkerton at the University of Washington.

Alta Vista

Access to nearly 11 billion words found in nearly 22 million Web pages and a full-text index of over 13,000 news groups updated in real-time.

Magellan

Magellan rates and reviews a large collection of Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, as well as Usenet newsgroups. You can browse topics or search for specific keywords or phrases.

Yahoo! Index

Yahoo maintians an exhaustive list of Web pages arranged by topic. If you know the name of the site you want, their search function might prove your fastest option.

Meta-Search Pages

W3 Search Engines (Centre Universitaire d'Informatique [CUI], University of Geneva)
This page provides links to many different Web search tools.

Me taCrawler (runs searches on multiple search engines).
Using the Metacrawler takes a little longer, but it submits your search request to a number of different search engines and collates the results for you. Best used during non-peak hours.

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