Search Engines
Search Engines
AltaVista
AltaVista is consistently one of the largest
search engines on the web.
http://www.altavista.com/
About.Com
Formally the Mining Company
http://www.about.com
Ask
Jeeves
Ask Jeeves an English-like question and it
will direct you to a location that will answer it.
http://www.askjeeves.com/
AOL
NetFind
http://www.aol.com/
Excite
http://www.excite.com/
Google
http://www.google.com/
GoTo
http://www.goto.com/
HotBot
http://www.hotbot.com/
Infoseek
http://www.infoseek.com/
Librarians"
Index to the Internet
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/InternetIndex/
LookSmart
http://www.looksmart.com/
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
MSN
(Microsoft)
http://home.microsoft.com/Default.asp
Netscape
http://www.netscape.com/
Northern
Light
http://www.northernlight.com/
or http://www.nlsearch.com/
Search.com
http://www.search.com/
Snap
http://www.snap.com/
WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
Yahoo
http://www.yahoo.com/
Children?s
Search Engines
Ask
Jeeves For Kids
Will not list a site that is on SurfWatch's
block list.
http://www.ajkids.com/
Disney
Internet Guide (DIG)
Children's Search Engines Only sites
considered appropriate for children.
http://www.disney.com/dig/today/
Yahooligans
Designed for ages 7 to 12.
http://www.yahooligans.com/
Filtered Search Engines
Unlike the search engines listed above, the
following engines allow you to search all of the
web, not just a small subset of sites. Results are
said to be filtered to remove objectionable
material. However, adults should supervise
children's searches.
AltaVista
Family Filter
http://www.altavista.com/
Sites
For Children
Awesome
Library
Over 12,000 sites have been classified into a
directory, organized for teachers, students and
parents. Information can be found by browsing or
searching.
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
EdView
The EdView Smart Zone is a collection of over
7 million teacher-reviewed web pages that are safe
for kids. Sites are categorized by subject and
grade level.
http://www.edview.com
Education
World
More than 50,000 sites of interest to
educators.
http://www.education-world.com/
StudyWEB
Over 70,000 links for those preparing reports.
These sites have be categorized. Their are ratings
by grade level
http://www.studyweb.com
Answers Searching
The sites below specialize in providing
answers.
Ask
Jeeves
http://www.askjeeves.com/
Information
Please
Almanacs allow searching across various
almanacs,encyclopedia and a dictionary.
http://www.infoplease.com/
Financial
Enter the name of a company or a stock symbol,
and then you'll be linked to a page with quotes,
financial data, related web sites, etc.
DailyStocks
http://www.dailystocks.com/
justQuotes.com
http://www.justquotes.com/
TradingDay
http://tradingday.com/
Domain
Help
Checkdomain.com
Check on domain availability with countries
around the world.
http://checkdomain.com/
Mailing Lists
Zip+4
Code Lookup (U.S. Post Office)
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/lookups/lookup_zip+4.html
E-Zine
List
List of mailing lists.
http://www.meer.net/~johnl/e-zine-list/
FindMail
Used for searching for mailing lists
http://www.findmail.com/
Liszt
http://www.liszt.com/
Metacrawlers
and Metasearch Engines
Go2Net
/ MetaCrawler
http://www.go2net.com/
Dogpile
http://www.dogpile.com/
SavvySearch
http://www.savvysearch.com/
Internet
Sleuth
http://www.isleuth.com
Mamma
http://www.mamma.com/
Metafind
http://www.metafind.com/
Debriefing
English and French interfaces.
http://www.debriefing.com/
OneSeek
http://www.oneseek.com/
PureSearch
http://www.puresearch.com/
Proteus
http://www.thrall.org/proteus.html
Multimedia Search
AltaVista
Photo Finder
http://image.altavista.com/
Lycos
Pictures and Sounds
http://www.lycos.com
http://www.ncrtec.org/picture.htm
Scour.Net
http://scour.net/
Newsgroup
Searching
Deja News
Enter a topic into Deja News and you will find
what newsgroups are relevant to your request.
http://www.dejanews.com/
Supernews
http://www.supernews.com
Shopping
Visa
Shopping Guide By Yahoo!
http://shopguide.yahoo.com/
Buyer's
Index
nformation from 9,000 mail order companies,
web shopping sites, classified ad sites etc.
http://www.buyersindex.com
Compare.Net
http://www.compare.net/
Sharper
Image
On-line auction
http://www.sharperimage.com
News
Search Engines
NetSearcher
Of interest to web developers and Internet
professionals.
http://www.netsearcher.com/
SearchZ
Sites dealing with online advertising,
marketing and
http://www.searchz.com/
Web Rings
Web rings are groups of sites that have linked
together around a similar topic.
Bomis
http://www.bomis.com/
WebRing
http://www.webring.org/.
Specialty Services
Forum
One
Searches over 65,000 web-based discussion
forums.
http://www.forumone.com/
Knowx
Public records
"Public records contain valuable information
that can help you solve problems both at home and
at work. Because KnowX.com provides real-time
access to billions of public\ records, we're able
to offer you information other Web sites
can't."
http://www.knowx.com/
Medical
World Search
http://www.search.com/
WhoWhere?
(Lycos People Finder)
http://www.whowhere.lycos.com/
Yahoo
People Search
http://people.yahoo.com/
Miscellaneous
BigBook
Businesses
http://www.bigbook.com/
Bigfoot
Names and addresses
http://www.bigfoot.com/
BizWeb
Businesses
http://www.bizweb.com/
Classmates
High school classmates
http://www.classmates.com/
ComFind
Company websites
http://comfind.com/
Highbeam
(old Electric
Library}
Publications and other databases of information.
For fee.
http://www.highbeam.com/library/index.asp