Internet Search Tools

References:

• How to Search the Web, A Guide to Search Tools
• Bare Bones 101: A Basic Tutorial on Searching the Web
• Evaluating Web Resources -- Checklist for an Informational Web Page
• Search Insider covers resources related to searching the Web
• SearchAbility: Guides To Specialized Search Engines
• FindIt at UD

Web Search Tools:

• Alta Vista: www.altavista.com
• Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com/search.html
• Excite: www.excite.com
• HotBot: www.hotbot.com
• snap.com: snap.com
• ask.com: ask.com
• WebCrawler: www.webcrawler.com
• 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/

  New alternatives as they come to my attention...

• ZenSearch: http://www.zensearch.com/

Composite Search Tools:

• Mamma: www.mamma.com
• ProFusion: www.profusion.com
• Go2Net: www.go2net.com/search.html
• Dogpile: www.dogpile.com
• The all4one Search Machine: all4one.com
• SavvySearch: www.savvysearch.com
• EZ-Find at the River: info.theriver.com/TheRiver/ezfind.htm
• c|net: search.cnet.com

Search Tools in Other Languages

• Lokace, French: www.lokace.com
• WEB.DE, German -- from Cinetic: vroom.web.de
• Euroseek 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

Best-of-Web Directories:

• LookSmart: www.looksmart.com
• About.com: www.about.com
• Netcenter: www.netcenter.com
• Suite 101: www.suite101.com

Directories:

• Yahoo!: www.yahoo.com
• Magellan: www.mckinley.com
• EiNet Galaxy: www.einet.net
• The WWW Virtual Library: vlib.org
  -- from the WorldWide Web Consortium
• GoTo.com

Multimedia:

• scour.net: www.scour.net
  -- search for audio, video, and images
• AltaVista Photo and Media Finder: image.altavista.com
• Yahoo! Image Surfer: ipix.yahoo.com

Miscellaneous:

• Networked Databases from the UD Library
• Ask Jeeves: www.askjeeves.com
• InfoPlease: www.infoplease.com
• Electric Library: www.elibrary.com
• Hot Sheet: www.hotsheet.com
  -- "easy access to the best of the web"

"http://www.physics.udel.edu/~watson/scen103/search.html"
Last updated November 1, 1999.
Copyright George Watson, Univ. of Delaware, 1999.