Useful Web Search Tools
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Telephone Listings
Switchboard offers nationwide
residential and business telephone listings.
Alta Vista offers compact or
detailed searches through what is claimed to be the largest Web index, covering 8 billion
words filling 16 million pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000
newsgroups.
Excite contains more than one million Web
documents and the past two weeks of Usenet news and classified ads. Excite also provides
NetReviews - sites evaluated for content quality - as well as up-to-the-minute news
updates.
Go.com provides fast, accurate, and
comprehensive searches of all web pages, newsgroups, usenet FAQ's, and reviewed pages.
Type a question in plain English, or enter as many words and phrases as you need to
describe what you want to find.
Lycos lets you efficiently search document
titles and content. It features a database that the company claims has millions of link
descriptors and documents built by a Web crawler that brings in thousands of documents
daily.
Magellan lets you efficiently search
document titles and content with a primary focus on relevancy scores.
Open Text Web Index searches every word
of every Web page the company has indexed - some 21 billion words and phrases in all. Pose
queries of virtually any length, or focus in by searching only titles or links.
Yahoo is arguably the pioneer Internet guide
and provides a comprehensive cross-discipline resource base. An editorial filter keeps
every college student's home page from making it into the directory.
DejaNews provides access to a huge Usenet
news archive. A variety of options allow tailoring your search, including a "create a
query" filter, to limit your search by newsgroup, date, or author.
The Electronic Library gives you full
text access to over 1000 newspapers, journals and reference books.
The Federal Web Locator
at Villinova University is a comprehensive guide to federal web pages.
The Listserv List Reference
allows browsing any of about 8,000 public LISTSERV lists on the Internet, searching for
mailing lists of interest, and getting information about LISTSERV host sites.
WhoWhere? is a comprehensive White Pages
service for locating people and organizations on the Net. It intuitively handles
misspelled or incomplete names, and it lets you search by initials.
All-In-One is a compilation of
various forms-based search tools that have been combined to form a consistent interface.
It provides dozens of both general-purpose and specialized tools.
CUSI (Configurable Unified Search
Interface) is offered by Nexor U.K. as a single form to search a large number of
different WWW.
Explore gives you a large
number of directories and search engines. It is frequently updated.
Net Search is
the Netscape search page, which can also be reached from the Net Search button on the
Netscape browser.
Starting Point Meta Search allows you to
enter your search clause once and then post it to multiple search engines.
W3 Search Engines is
published by the University of Geneva. This list of search engines covers a wide variety
of topics and subjects but isn't updated very often. |
