To Find What You're Looking For
Search Engines
(Consider going to www.infopeople.org/search/chart.html or www.searchenginewatch.com or to www.findspot.com/ for helpful tips and hints on using search engines)

ALTA VISTA

http://altavista.com
A fast search engine index of over 30 million Web pages and Usenet in a variety of language choices.  Click the Help feature for search guidelines.


ALL THE WEB
http://www.alltheweb.com
 A search engines that enables you to focus your search for particular words, phrases, etc.

NORTHERN LIGHTS
http://www.northernlight.com
A large very useful search engine--larger than Altavista; has changed its format and has charges for business

EXCITE
http://www.excite.com
Offers a search of more that 50,000 reviewed Web sites, a Usenet search of more that one million articles, and a search of Usenet classifieds from the past two weeks.
 
GALAXY
http://galaxy.com
 
LYCOS
http://www.lycos.com
An index offering a search of Web sites, sounds, pictures, etc.  Click help for search guidelines.  Can be broken down into subject categories.
 
WEBCRAWLER
http://www.webcrawler.com
An index owned by America On Line.  Offers help, subject categories, email address searches, and extra services.
 
YAHOO
http://www.yahoo.com

A subject tree that offers subject categories, chats, people search, maps, etc.

VIVISIMO
http:// vivisimo.com
Gives the user automatic clustering, hierarchical folders

SURF WAX
Gives the user the ability to identify promising results using preview summary ("Site Snap"), perform "Context Zooming", or add "Focus Words" to narrow the next search.
http://www.surfwax.com

GO.COM
http://www.go.com
An index that offers searches of the Web, images, stocks, maps, sounds, etc.
 

GOOGLE
http://www.google.com
The most popular search engine allowing easy user friendly queries.

TEOMA
http://www.teoma.com
A "supposed" challenger to google. The "refine" feature appears interesting.

ASK JEEVES
http://www.ask.com
A site to ask general questions.

OPEN DIRECTORY PROJECT
http://www.dmoz.org
Another Subject tree that is of high quality

SINGING FISH
http://www.singingfish.com/
A search engine for sounds and videos

The following web sites are Multiple (Meta) Search Engines:
 
THE BIG HUB
http://www.thebighub.com
A page where you can combine your favorite search engines into one search (an all-in-one search).
 
DOGPILE
http://www.dogpile.com

A wonderful combination of search engines with results that are clear and useful.  Try this one!

EZ2FIND
Gathers results from top engines and includes some invisible web information
http://www.ez2find.com

JAYDE
http://www.jayde.com/search.html

METACRAWLER
http://www.metacrawler.com

MAMA
http://www.mamma.com
Bills itself as “the Mother of all search engines”
 
PRIME SEARCH
http://www.primecomputing.com/search.htm
 
VERIO

http://search.verio.net

HOTSHEET
http://www.hotsheet.com
Presents the user with a large number of category choices.

HOTBOT

http://www.hotbot.com

FIRST GOV
A web site that is an official site for U.S. govenment, state, and local information
http://www.firstgov.com

Directories

SOME BUSINESS AND YELLOW PAGES
http://anywho.com
http://infobel.com/teldir
http://switchboard.com
http://www.bigyellow.com
http://www.abii.com
http://yp.gte.net

 

Scholarly Research Sites

LIBRARIANS' INDEX TO THE INTERNET
A thinking person's Yahoo" with weekly updates
http://lii.org

INFOMINE
A librarian-selected directory with flexible search options
http://infomine.ucr.edu

LITTLE FALLS PUBLIC LIBRARY
This is an on-line library from Little Falls, NJ, with wonderful links to valuable research resources
http://www.palsplus.org/lfpl/educator.html

Biographies

INFOPLEASE
Encyclopedia, almanac, dictionary
http://www.infoplease.com

BIOGRAPHY
The website for a Biography TV show
http://www.biography.com

Gopher Archives
http://galaxy.einet.net/GJ/


ARCHIE
FTPSEARCH
Consider using one of your favorite search engines for an ftp search (Dogpile or Lycos Advanced Search)
http://www.shareware.com

http://www.tucows.com
http://www.download.com

Search for software and games
USENET NEWS READERS
Google Groups
http://groups.google.com
You may use a regular search engine and change the selection from Web Search to Search Usenet