Search Engines

This page contains links to sites that relate to searching. Much of the searching is done by programs called robots that will do the work for you.

Great Search Engines These are some of the best search engines I have found.

Special Search Engines These are pretty good search engines, mostly due to the length or their specialization.

Web Robots These programs will help you extract information from the Web.

People Locators Use these to find information about people - such as their phone numbers and email addresses.

Great Search Engines

Number 1 Search Engine 7 X's More Powererful!

Google - Very Fast Search engine Google has deployed more than 10,000 Linux servers, making it the largest commercial Linux installation in the world.

Highway 61 Great search engine. Looks just like supersearches. Organizes matches by relevence. May match some sex sites.

Ask Jeeves Amazing natural language parallel search engine. Just ask a question and it will automatically search for the answer. The results are grouped by search engine with a menu on each one from which you select a site to surf to.

ProFusion Great search engine. Searches 9 search engines in parallel. Organizes the results removing duplicates and ranking. Also displays a summary for each match describing what the site is about.

Special Search Engines

All-in-One Search Page Long list of MANY search engines. Does a single search on the engine selected. Compilation of various internet search tools, searchable from this site. Includes web searching, general internet searching, telephone numbers, email addresses, software, online publications, technical documentation, general reference.

Baby Oil Organized list of places to go using the following categories: WWW Pages, Library, Technical Reports, Software, People, Online Documents, and Images.

Beaucoup Well organized list of over 800 search engines in the following categories: General Search Engines, To Multiple Engine Searches, Reviewed Sites/What's new? Media, Geographically Specific, Software, Reference/Language/Literature, Education Resources/Schools, Music/Sounds, Arts/Graphics, Science/Nature/Technology, Email/Domains/Phone Numbers for People/Orgs, Hobbies/Games/Recreation/Pets/Entertainment, Potpourri, Social/Environmental/Political Concerns, Internet/WWW, Computers & Programming, Politics/Government, and Health/Foods and Diet/Consumer Medicine.

BIG Search Engine Index

Dogpile - a meta-search engine Searches each engine then displays each engine's search results in one window. Does not remove duplicates or rank the matches. Searches: The Web: Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, Go2.com, PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, Excite & AltaVista. Usenet: Reference, Dejanews, AltaVista and Dejanews' old database. One-stop multi-engine searching!

Galaxy The Web's resources, compiled for professionals: Business And Commerce, Engineering And Technology, Government, Humanities, Law, Medicine, Reference, Science and Social Sciences.

Graphically-based WWW "starting point"

Internet Research and Marketing

Liszt, the mailing list directory Need to find a listserv on your topic? Contains mailing lists for many categories.

Lycos, Inc. Search Engine

Search Engine Watch Search Engine News, Search Engine Tips and more about search engines.

Search Engines Forum

Search Engines Worldwide Search engines have become quite a mission in themselves which one to use, what keywords to enter, and then you are never sure you will find what you are looking for. If your looking for certain geographic information it often pays to use a more localized engine, that's where this site comes in. Use it to locate hundreds of different search engines from around the globe. Note that this site, by itself, it not a search engine. It just points to other search engine sites.

Search Forms - Many types of searching

Scientific American: Article--Search Engines and the Internet

Yahoo's extensive categorization of WWW information sources

The World Wide Yellow Pages (TM - they say...)

InfoFinder Links to many search engines.

MIT geographic nameserver database This server contains mostly information on locations within the US. It uses the information from the geographic nameserver database formerly on martini.eecs.umich.edu. Much of the data is not current, but we do not have anything newer.

Web Robots

Web Robots Pages Web Robots are programs that traverse the Web automatically. Some people call them Web Wanderers, Crawlers, or Spiders. These pages have further information about these Web Robots.

People Locators

Switchboard Find a person based on last name (required) qualified by first name, city, state zip. Find an email address based on last name qualified by first name.

Big Foot Find a person based on last name qualified by first name. Find an email address based on last name. Found more matches than Switchboard.

Who Where Find a person based on last name qualified by first name. Has driving directions and a map. Find an email address based on last name. (Apparently Lycos thought this was good, since they bought it.)

The Ultimate Directory - InfoSpace Points to other sites that allow you to locate different kinds of information: yellow pages, white pages, public records, business services, government, city guide, news break and international.

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Last modified Fri Oct 26 20:40:21 2001.

	Great Search Engines	These are some of the best search engines I have found.
	Special Search Engines	These are pretty good search engines, mostly due to the length or their specialization.
	Web Robots	These programs will help you extract information from the Web.
	People Locators	Use these to find information about people - such as their phone numbers and email addresses.