SEARCH ENGINES/WEB CRAWLERS

General Search Engines

• Altavista--WEB and Usenet newsgroups.
• DejaNews--Web and Usenet newsgroups
• Excite or Excite Power Search which allows you to target your search. Or Excite People Finder
• HotBot--[formerly "Inktomi"]--less garbage, use + for must words.
• Infoseek
• Alternate Infoseek site
• Jumbo--shareware index.
• LookSmart--Readers Digest search service. Ranks and sorts 85,000+ web sites. Useful if keywords don't turn up what you are looking for.
• Lycos--incl Medline, Health Digest, Healthgate.
• Lycos A2Z directory
• "Magellan"
• MetaCrawler
• Net Locator
• Open Text Index
• Scott Yanoff list --www and internet indexes.
• Webcrawler
• Yahoo net index--human-picked pages.
• When you search Yahoo unsuccessfully,
  hit any of the other search engines at the bottom of the page and your search is repeated automatically. Back button and try another until you are successful.
• The HSU Library's current list of Internet search engines
• If you didn't find what you were looking for in the above list, try the HSU current list of Internet search tools--Directories

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Specialized Search Engines

• Links to "the best search tools on earth"--many specialized
• WebSeer Searches for images by dimensions, colors, file size, image origin (e.g., photograph), number of faces, and size of portraits.
• WebSeek Searches web catalogue for images by text-based topics.
• Lycos Also searches by pictures, sounds, and people.
• 555--1212.comPhone numbers and addresses--searches white pages, yellow pages, and includes REVERSE LOOKUP [enter phone number and it finds the person and address].
• PacBell AtHand--the California Yellow Pages--free
• Big Yellow business index
• Central Source Business Yellow Pages
• Darian: guides aplenty.
• The Electric Library--searches newspapers, newsservices, magazines, maps, pictures, media transcripts and books
• GPO Access--US Post Office.
• C/NET--Internet/computer product finder.
• WhoWhere-- Business Yellow Pages.

  Smart Agents: personalized search engines that become accustomed to your preferences

• Zip2--Personalized Yellow Pages search
• The Angle--personalized searches
• Autonomy--intranet smart search agent software
• BargainFinder helps with comparison shopping.

SEARCHES FOR INDIVIDUALS

• Internet Address Finder--e-mail addresses.
• Who Where? Email Wizard--for people searches.
• White Pages Directory "four 11"
• 555-1212.com Several yellow and white pages search options.
• Bigfoot global e-mail directory

LINKS TO OTHER SEARCH ENGINES:

• "Intelligent Internet"

SEARCH ENGINES THAT SEARCH OTHER SEARCH ENGINES:

• Dogpile Searches via multiple engines.
• World Wide Web Worm -- Searches everything at once
• Savvy Search--Queries 19 different search engines at once.
• Internet Sleuth Targeted searches via other search engines.
• SearchCom--AltaVista, Excite, Yahoo, Shareware, Infoseek, etc.
• "All4One"--Searches 4 engines.
• Frame Search--searches 4 engines.
• HSU Library current list of meta-indexes (search engines that search other search engines)