ColumbiaWeb Off-Campus: The Internet

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The following are a number of starting-points for searching and browsing the Internet. While it is not exhaustive and we cannot make guarantees of its accuracy, reliability or completeness, we have found them of great help nonetheless.

Yahoo!--The original large index, organized by topic.
Yahoo! New York--Index that concentrates on New York-related subjects.
Excite--Featuring ranked results, reviews, news.
Lycos--Featuring ranked results and reviews.
Alta Vista Search--Search engine for the Web and Usenet.
Infoseek--Standard search and stocks and investing information.
WebCrawler--Search and reviews.
OpenText--Advanced searching.
Magellan--Search and reviews
HotBot--The Wired search engine.

Community Information

New York City Current Weather & Time.
Church of Corpus Christi--529 West 121st Street.
Morningside Heights Residents Association
New York City Resources.

Internet Information Servers

NYNEX BigYellow: Interactive Yellow Pages
Telephone and address listings can be searched by state or by business category.

BigBook Interactive Yellow Pages
Telephone and address listings with a variety of search options, includes street maps.

The Scout Report
A weekly annotated list of research and educational sites.

W3C
The World Wide Web Consortium, hosted by the Laboratory for Computer Science at MIT, by INRIA, and Keio University with support from DARPA and the European Commission.

NYSERNet (New York State Internet Service)
New York State general and high-speed networking information.