Internet Search Tools

Web Composite      Foreign

Usenet Directories Miscellaneous

References:

• How to Search the Web, A Guide to Search Tools
• Evaluating Web Resources -- Checklist for an In formational Web Page
• Search Insider covers resources related to searching the Web

Web Search Tools:

• Excite: www.excite.com
• Alta Vista: www.altavista.com
• HotBot: www.hotbot.com
• Magellan: www.mckinley.com
• WebCrawler: www.webcrawler.com
• Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com/search.html
• OpenText: index.opentext.net
• Lycos: www.lycos.com
  -- Search for Pictures and Sounds
• Infoseek: www.infoseek.com
  -- ultra: ultra.infoseek.com
• Northern Lights: www.nlsearch.com
• W3: www.mei.com/search/w3catalog/

• Search UD's central web server

Composite Search Tools:

• MetaCrawler: www.metacrawler.com
  -- Multi-threaded web search service using numerous search sites
• Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
• The all4one Search Machine: all4one.com
  -- uses 4 sites: Yahoo!, Lycos, Alta Vista, and Webcrawler
  -- works only with frames-capable browser such as Netscape 2.0
• SavvySearch: guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form/
  -- uses 4 most relevant of 18 sites
• EZ-Find at the River: www.theriver.com/TheRiver/Explore/ezfind.html
  -- A one-stop Internet search page
• c|net: www.search.com
  -- more than 250 ways to search the Net

Search Tools in Other Languages

• Lokace, French:
  http://lokace.iplus.fr/
• WEB.DE, German -- from Cinetic:
  http://vroom.web.de/
• Euroseek
  http://www.euroseek.com/

Usenet Search Tools:

• Reference.COM: www.reference.com
• DejaNews: www.dejanews.com
  -- the premier usenet search utility
• Tile.Net/News: tile.net/news/
  -- the complete reference to Usenet Newsgroups
• Excite: www.excite.com
  -- select Usenet button.
• Alta Vista: www.altavista.digital.com
  -- select Search Usenet from button menu.

Directories:

• Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com
• a2z: a2z.lycos.com
• EiNet Galaxy: www.einet.net
• The WWW Virtual Library: www.w3.org/vl/
  -- from the WorldWide Web Consortium
• Point Survey: www.pointcom.com
  -- rating the top 5% of the web

Miscellaneous:

• Networked Databases from the UD Library
• Internet Research Pointer
• Ask Jeeves: www.askjeeves.com
• Hot Sheet: www.tstimpreso.com/hotsheet/
  -- "easy access to the best of the web"

"http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/phys208/search.html"
Last updated April 19, 1998.
Copyright George Watson, Univ. of Delaware, 1997.