Internet Search Engines and Metasearch Engines
General Articles
- Choose the Best Engine for Your Purpose
...a site that helps teachers and students evaluate which search engine or directory to use for a particular purpose- Introduction to Search Engines
...a set of documents to help users understand the differences between some of the most popular search engines- Learning More About Search Engines & Subject Directories
...a great series of questions and answers that explain the process of searching the Net- SCOTT's Guide to Web Databases
...a step-by-step procedure that helps the user choose the best place to search for information; includes a great web search tutorial- Sink or Swim : Internet Search Tools & Techniques
...a superlative description of how to go about doing a search on the Net- Spider's Apprentice
...a great tutorial on the use of the different search engines and techniques for successful searching
Search Engines
- Aliweb...9000 indexed WWW pages
- Alta Vista
...an extremely fast search engine for Web pages and newsgroups- Archie Search, Gopher Index
- Dejanews Usenet Newsgroup Searching
...fast and easy way to search the newsgroups for people and information- Excite Search
...search WWW and Usenet sites by concept or keyword- Filez
...a search engine that indexes FTP archives and files; similar to Archie- Gophers Arranged by Subject from Rice
- HotBot
...a search engine with extensive coverage; refine your search carefully- Hytelnet...look for telnet sites by title
- Infoseek Ultraseek
...a full-text, "real-time" index of over 50 million web pages- Internet Navigation Tools
...a well-chosen list of many search engines and directories of all types- Jughead-Gopher Search
- LISZT
...a searchable directory of e-mail discussion groups (listservs, listproc, majordomo)- LIBS Search Tools (Telnet: login as libs)
- Lycos WWW Search Tool
...a great search tool of over 1.5 million WWW sites; annotated hits- Nlightn Keyword Search...a small search engine
- Open Text Web Index
...search over 1.3 million WWW sites; includes boolean searches- RBSE's URL Database
- search.com
...a great site that provides access to search tools arranged by major subject area- 2ask
...allows searches, by keyword, to many subject-arranged sites which include searchable directories- University of Minnesota Gopher
...the home of the Gopher- Usenet Address Search
...search, by name or keyword, over 4 million Usenet postings from 1991 to February 1996; find the e-mail address of a long-lost friend- Veronica Search
- WebCrawler...search through over 200,000 WWW sites; relevant hits
- WebTaxi
...an integrated search tool that gathers all of the search types in one place- World Wide Web Worm...only searches titles and URLs
- Yahoo's 35 Search Engines...many of the search engines collected in one place
- Yahoo's Search Engine
...a engine that allows you to search Yahoo's directory site and/or the Web; has advanced searching options
Metasearch Engines
- All-In-One...all search tools listed together
- Avenue Search
...an easy-to-use interface for various search engine/directory queries- Cyber411
...a very fast, thorough, metasearch engine- Dogpile
...a very fast and efficient meta-search engine that queries search engines, directories, Usenet news and FTP sites- Find-It!
...a nice set of search tools, research links, and places to submit your site- FINDSPOT
..."a gateway to Internet search tools that combines access to these tools with example-based help"; primarily search engines, but includes some directories- Inso Search Wizard for the Internet
...a clever metasearch engine that allows you to choose from a thesaurus of terms to narrow your search in the major search engines- Internet Exploration Page
- The Internet Sleuth
...easy keyword searches to over 900 general and subject-specific Internet indices- Metacrawler
...search many engines all at once- Savvy Search
...search many of the major engines all at once; excellent tool
This page was designed by Abdulrahman Al-Motrif
(c) 1997. All Rights Reserved. Updated on May 6, 1997
