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| Lost in a Sea of Search? | Intraware. Members only site with no charge membership.
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| Infoseek Advanced Search Options
(I received this in paper form, no idea what the source was). |
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| About | |
| Alexa | |
| Archie | Great front end on the clasic search ftp engine. |
| All The Web | Very good advanced front end. |
| Atomz.com | Search your own site |
| Daypop | News items only |
| Dogpile | |
| eblast | EB runs it. |
| ePrecis | BAsed on semantic analysis of English. It's actually desighed to be an API, but they have a good search engine to illustrate it. |
| EuroFerret | Some hits are in English |
| EuroSeek | World wide |
| Fast Search | Selected subjects. |
| Filez | All hits are downloadable files |
| Global Connector | |
| GoTo | |
| HighRankings.com | Outstanding content. |
| HotBot | |
| ht://Dig | San Diego State Univ's Open Source indexing system |
| Infoseek | Easy successive refinements |
| Internet Public Library | Human vetted |
| Invisible Web | David Coursey: I've discovered the 'invisible Web'--have you? Here's how! Outstanding article in ZDNet's Anchor Desk. [ local copy ] |
| ixquick | |
| KartOO | Graphic map of sites. |
| Librarians' Internet Index | Results are vetted by humans. |
| Look Smart | |
| Lycos Power Search | Adjustable priorities |
| Maholo |
Human edited search database |
| Meta Crawler | |
| Metor | Searches several engines at once and presents combined results. |
| Mother of all Search Engines | Need to test this one |
| Netsearch | Search limited to reviewed sites (thousands) |
| Netscape | hhmmmm. They just pass it off to Infoseek! |
| Northern Light | |
| One Seek | Submits query to 3+- engines that match subject |
| Open Directory Project | Part of Mozilla |
| Political Information | |
| http://www.searchenginesgalore.com/ | |
| Search Systems | over 4500 databases |
| Teoma | |
| Web Ferret | Local (Windoze) tool that queries multiple search engines. |
| Yahoo | Companies then web sites |
| Zensearch | Search selected "best" sites |
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| Any Who | Name & phone numbers - also reverse |
| Birth/Death records | Ancestors |
| Classmates | Highschool records. Looks to be only people who have registered. |
| InfoSpace | Reverse fone search |
| Internet Address Finder | People's email addresses |
| Network Partners | Finds URL for company |
| Switchboard | |
| Spock | in development Aug 2007 |
| WebReference's list | |
| Wink | |
| Yahoo People Search | |
| ZoomInfo.com |
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| Dejanews | Searches usenet archives |
| Disinformation | Wierd stuff others won't find (or even look for) |
| FTP Search | File lists from hundreds of ftp sites. |
| Infomine | Univ Calif @ Riverside - Caltalog of sites in leveral subject areas. Very good, slow. |
| Online Reference Desk | Very good list of information sources |
| Ring World | Hundreds of web-rings
Conservative |
| Search Engine Watch |
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| Agentware | Line of internet agents includes an ofline browser, library and Web Researcher |
| BotSpot | They have a more general definition of "bot". Including Elisa! |
| Browser Buddy | "Prefetching" agent finds Web pages for you and downloads them to a local hard drive. |
| FlashSite | InContext Systems' offline agent uses a folder-based system to maintain downloaded Web pages. Related to Web Retriever. |
| Net Attache Pro | Sophisticated, highly configurable product; offers builtin Web searching and other advanced features. |
| Smart Spider | Dr Dobbs: Implementing a Smart Spider, 8-2002 |
| Teleport Pro | Downloads entire Web sites, marketing requested documents for later reading; includes Web publishing tools. |
| WebVCR | Unusual offline browser uses a VCR metaphor for helping you organize and "play back" downloaded material. |
| Web Retriever | Browses the Web at scheduled intervals; downloaded information is stored in a local database. Related to FlashSite. |
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| Unusual Museums | Fun |
| Web Rings |
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| Big Eye | Quite a number of good sections |
| RefDesk | |
| Yahoo |