Search Engines
Meta Search
Dogpile: Search the Web and Usenet at the same time.
Mamma: Large retrieval.
MetaCrawler: Sort by relevance or source location.
RefDesk: Slide down to search many, many reference books.
OnLine Math: Wow! Over 11,000 Science resources.
SavvySearch: Results from different search engines as well.
Directories
AnyWho: Find People & Reverse Phone-number.
InfoSpace: Reverse Phone-number & Address Lookup.
City-by-City Tax Assessors.
BigFoot: Find People - E-mail search.
LookSmart.
SuperPages.
WhoWhere? People Search.
Yahoo: People Search.
MySimon: Shopping Directory.
Web Crawlers
Webcrawler: Search engine with boolean interface.
My Webcrawler.
Basic Search
About.
Alta Vista: A large collection of document addresses.
AOL NetFind.
DejaNews: A directory of Usenet discussions.
Direct Hit: Ranks results based on what others found useful.
Excite: An English-language boolean interface.
FAST: Largest collection of web site addresses.
Google: Most relevant hits toward the top.
GoTo.
HotBot: Usually results in lots of hits.
Infoseek: Does a great job with proper names.
LookSmart: A large directory.
Lycos: Very detailed advanced search options.
Netscape Search.
Northern Light: Large database. Flexible boolean interface.
Thunder Stone.
Yahoo: The largest site directory on the web.
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