-- Searching on the Internet (Searching Tools)



  • Yahoo
  • http://www.yahoo.com/: Yahoo is the most comprehensive index of Web pages organized into categories.
  • Alta Vista
  • http://altavista.digital.com/: Alta Vista is a service provided by Digital Equipment Corporation. It indexes web pages and usenet newsgroups. Uses Boolean proximity, result ranking, and limiting by date.
  • Metacrawler
  • http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu:8080/: Metacrawler searches a number of different search engines and displays common results.
  • Metasearch
  • http://metasearch.com/: Metasearch allows users to search for a term in multiple categories (Web, Software, and Dictionaries & Thesauruses) with a number of search engines.
  • Lycos
  • http://lycos.cs.cmu.edu/: Lycos is Carnegie-Mellon University's Internet search tool.
  • Excite
  • http://www.excite.com/: Excite is a full-text index which includes hundreds of thousans of web pages. It includes concept-based as well as keyword searching, with relevancy ordering of results sets and "query-by-example." It also allows searching of usenet newsgroups.
  • HotBot
  • http://www.hotbot.com/: HotBot is a search engine with the capacity to index and search the entire Web.
  • DejaNews
  • http://www.dejanews.com/: DejaNews Research Service is the premier usenet search utility. It offers the ability to search by keywords and names. Sponsored by Britannica Online.
  • WebCrawler
  • http://webcrawler.com/: WebCrawler contains thousands of web documents indexed for keyword searches. It is comprehensive and fast.
  • Open Text
  • http://www.opentext.com:8080/: Open Text Web Index indexes every word in every linked page. Easy phrase & Boolean searching, relevancy weighting, targeted searching on parts of files.
  • Magellan
  • http://magellan.mckinley.com/: Magellan is an on-line directory of reviewed and rated internet sites. Rating are based on depth, ease of use, and "net appeal", earning sites from one to four stars. It allows boolean searching, wildcard matches, stemming, and some concept searching.
  • More...
  • http://www.columbia.edu/~sss31/search2.html
    Searching on the Internet - Part 2
  • Peter
  • http://www.columbia.edu/~pjm34/searchit.html
    My friend Peter's nicely formatted/prepared search page.

    Seaching For E-Mail Adresses, Web pages, Phone Numbers etc.

    Other Places to Visit --- More Search Engines:
  • Columbia University: Research Online
  • CU Reference Tools and Indexes
  • Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Online
  • Dissertation Abstracts Online
  • Chorus-Search the Web ... Humanities Style!
  • Electronic Library
  • EINet Galaxy
  • Tile.Net/Lists
  • Hypertext Webster Interface
  • Computing Dictionary
  • Magazines, Periodicals and Libraries
  • Amazon.com Books!
  • AskERIC
  • Software Search: ==>
  • Shareware.Com
  • Download.Com
  • FtpSearch
  • Snoopie
  • Jumbo
  • File Search
  • More References: ==>
  • Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder
  • Nick's References
  • Computer Information
  • Search.Com
  • Cyber 411 (15 Search Engines, One Query)
  • InfoSeek Net Search
  • Internet Search
  • Infoseek
  • WebCrawler Search Engine
  • WebCrawler
  • Lycos Searching
  • Lycos
  • McKinley
  • The All In One Search
  • Excite NetSearch
  • Inktomi
  • Infoseek
  • WWW Worm
  • Whole Internet Catalog
  • Pointcom
  • World Wide Yellow Pages
  • Big Yellow
  • Starting Point
  • Information SuperLibrary
  • World Wide Web Yellow Pages
  • Link Star Internet Directory
  • Access BusinessOnline
  • Apollo
  • Starting Point
  • Point Commu. Corp.
  • ComFind
  • BizWiz
  • Galaxy
  • What's New Too!
  • METROSCOPE
  • LinkStar
  • New Rider's WWW YP
  • Nerd World Media
  • More Engines
  • BOBAWORLD
  • Search Engines org. by Andrei Nedashkovsky
  • International Search Engines
  • Gopher Search - Veronica
  • TheYellowPages.com
  • Internet Whitepages
  • Internet White Pages
  • CUNIX HomePage Gateway - at Columbia.
  • Home Page Lookup at Columbia University.
  • W3 Search Engines
  • Academic email lists (LU.SE)
  • Archie Gateway (WIT)
  • Archieplex (NEXOR)
  • CUSI (NEXOR)
  • CUSI-R (UNR)
  • Discussion groups (NOVA)
  • FINGER Gateway (IU)
  • Gopher Jewels Search (EINet)
  • Hytelnet Gateway (EINet)
  • Hytelnet search gopher (WLU)
  • Hytelnet Gateway (UKans)
  • Veronica Gateway (PSI)
  • Veronica Gateway (UNR)
  • WAIS Gateway (NCSA)
  • WAIS Gateway Info (NCSA)
  • WAISGATE (WAIS)
  • WhoIs Gateway (MIT)
  • X.500 Gateway (UMich)
  • Sadi Seferoglu's Internet Search Page



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  • Last updated: May 22, 1997
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