Internet Search Tools

• Google searches more sites more quickly, to bring you the most relevant results.

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• Digital Equipment Corp. provides a powerful engine for searching Web sites and Usenet newgroups by keyword called Alta Vista. Included in the database are more than 16 million Web pages and full-text articles from more than 13,000 newsgroups.
  

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• Search Excite, a database the company claims contains more than one million Web documents refreshed weekly, or the past two weeks of Usenet news and classified ads.
  
  

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  Web documents: Search one of the largest web databases, more than 11.5 million pages. Reviews: Search our database of over 50,000 web site reviews. Usenet: Search more than 1 million articles from 10,000 newsgroups. Classified: Search Usenet classified advertisements from the past two weeks.

• If you're trying to find a particular site or document on the Internet or just looking for a resource list on a particular subject, you can use the many InfoSeek Guide services below.

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• Lycos Catalog of the Internet the grand-daddy of web search engines; basically a keyword index., enter a word or phrase to search for. Capitalization is not important.

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• WebCrawler is a robot as well as an indexer, seeking out new web pages for indexing on its own.
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• Yahoo - A Guide to WWW Yahoo organizes Web sites into categories. You can either browse the categories or search them. Enter a word or phrase to search for. Capitalization is not important.
• Search the Magellan and access McKinley's Internet Directory to their growing database of World Wide Web, Telnet, Gopher, and FTP sites and newsgroups and mailing-list resources rated by an editorial team. Users can get quick access to either a short review or longer in-depth listing of keywords, contact information, language, producer, and more. Enter any text you'd like to begin your search. You can use capital or lowercase letters or a combination. Examples: "Frank Lloyd Wright houses," "Chinese history," "companies that sell computer software," "culinary schools," "influence of women in Italian politics."

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• Open Text Web Index Open Text is the most thorough retriever I've seen; you can conduct a search in three ways: 1) straight search 2) boolean or a 3) weighted search
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• JumpCity provides annotated results, a categorized collection of site reviews, and a news section.
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• ALIWEB Search Form
• Career Searching or Resume Posting on the Monster Board, a national database, searched by thousands of leading employers worldwide, right here.
• College Guide a comprehensive database containing overviews and college admissions info for a number of colleges and universities throughout the United States.
• CUSI Services (Nexor)
• CAENweb (UofM)
• Clearing House for Internet Guides (UofM)
• Distance Learning Directory (MITN)
• The Electric Library; rather than searching the Web, check out the Electric Library's contents. Launch comprehensive searches across this deep database of more than 1000 full text newspapers, magazines, and academic journals; plus images; reference books; literature; and art.
• Global Network Navigator (GNN)
• Information SuperLibrary, the Internet home of Macmillan Computer Publishing USA, the world's largest computer book publisher
• Links and Gateways
• Starting Point
• TechDirect
• The Open Market Directory. (Commercial Sites)
• W3 Virtual Library (W3 MIT-CERN)
• Universities World Wide a comprehensive index from Yahoo
• What's New for Commercial Sites on the Web
• World Wide Yellow Pages
• Universities:United States
• The World Wide Web Worm (WWWW)

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