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Search Engines (see Web Directories):
- Alta Vista
- ALIWEB - The Web's Oldest Search Engine
- Ask Jeeves (natural language search engine)
- Britannica's Internet Guide
- Excite
- HotBot
- Infoseek Ultra
- KidsClick ("Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians")
- LookSmart
- Lycos
- Magellan
- Northern Light (claims 1 million articles not on other search engines)
- Open Text (not for beginners!)
- Starting Point
- The Big Hub
- WebCrawler
- Yahoo!
- All In One Search
- Dogpile
- Find It
- Go2Net
- Highway 61 (quick, dependable results for simple metasearches)
- Inference FIND (English, French and German language options)
- Internet Sleuth
- MetaCrawler (PC Magazine Editors' Choice; recently acquired by go2net)
- MetaFind
- MetaSearch
- ProFusion (recommended by PC Magazine)
- Savvy Search
- Search.com (a search engine for search engines)
- WebSearch
- W3 Search Engines
Web Directories (also see: Search Engines)
- Argus Clearinghouse
- Britannica Online Guide (65,000+ Web links with ratings & reviews)
- California State Library - Librarians' Index to the Internet
- Excite
- KidsClick ("Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians")
- Magellan
- Open Directory Project
- PlanetClick
- RingWorld (a subject oriented guide to web rings)
- Search Beat (1-stop web directory)
- SignPost - Internet Scout (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- snap.com
- WWW Virtual Library (Stanford University)
- Yahoo!
- Alta Vista
- CataList
- Deja.com
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences
- HotBot
- Lists for Librarians
- Liszt
- Reference.COM (only site dedicated to searching mailing lists & newsgroups)
- Tile.net (search newsgroups and ftp sites)
- AnyWho Directories (tollfree and reverse lookup)
- Bigfoot (searches simultaneously for white pages and e-mail data)
- Database America
- InfoSpace
- Reverse Lookup (find address with a known telephone number)
- ReversePhoneDirectory (business and residential)
- Switchboard
- The Ultimates (white pages, yellow pages and email directories)
- WhoWhere? (now part of the Lycos Network)
- Worldpages (230+ directories representing over 100 countries!)
- Yahoo! People Search (locate by phone number & e-mail)
- 555-1212 Tollfree Directory
- AnyWho (from the Internet Directory Group of AT&T Labs)
- AT&T Toll-Free Internet Directory
- BigBook (highly recommended; accurate yellow-pages searching)
- Big Yellow (business yellow pages)
- Database America
- InfoSpace
- Reverse Lookup (find address with a known telephone number)
- ReversePhoneDirectory (business and residential)
- Switchboard
- Tollfree Numbers.com (includes vanity numbers directory)
- The Ultimates (white pages, yellow pages and email directories)
- WorldPages Yellow Pages (230+ directories representing over 100 countries!)
- Yahoo! Yellow Pages
- Zip2 (includes option to search for other businesses near the one you find)
- AddALL (book searching and price comparisons)
- Business & Finance (hundreds of links from PlanetClick site)
- Education (hundreds of links from PlanetClick site)
- Education World (education-related sites, lesson plans, curriculum, and more)
- FastSearch (legal, medical, financial, real estate, news and more)
- Financial Search Engine - MoneyCrawler.com
- FindLaw (directory of legal and government sites)
- Health A to Z (health and medical sites)
- KidsClick ("Web Guide and Search Tool for Kids by Librarians")
- Kompass (search profiles on 1.5 million companies in 60+ countries)
- LawCrawler (Findlaw's legal search engine)
- Medical World Search
- mySimon (the best of the new "shopping bots" - Santa's little search engine)
- Newsbot.com (search current news articles)
- News Index (claims most comprehensive up to the minute news search engine)
- Photo Finder
- Scour.Net (search for audio & video clips and images; results include thumbnail)
- Search Power (provides links to more than 1,700 specialized search engines!!)
- SmallBizSearch (searches the Web for sites of value to small businesses)
- TotalNews (highly rated search engine and directory of news sites)
- Transium (search 1,000+ business and trade journals for info on over 300,000 companies)
- Veronica (searches for gopher Internet sites)
Advanced Internet Research: Summary of Sites Noted (summary of newest trends)
Gretchen Whitney, School of Information Sciences, University of TennesseeGlossary of Search Engine Terminology (John Hopkins University)
Guides to Evaluating the World Wide Web (Colorado Council of Medical Librarians)
Search Engine Watch "A Webmaster's Guide to Search Engines"
Power Searching for Anyone (search engines tutorial)
Search Engine Math (learn to "add, substract and multiply your way into better searches")
Tangled in the Web? Using Search Guides and Engines to
Untangle Information Resources
by Suzanne Holler, University of Central Florida, University LibrariesWeb Search 101 (good beginner's guide + advanced search tutorials)
Chris Sherman @ the Mining Company