Search Engines and Directories Links from Provence-Beyond (Beyond the French Riviera) ® [ Cities | Côte d'Azur-Provence | Culture | Education | Food/Health | Lodging | Media | Nature | Newsgroups | Regions | Science | Search | Sports | Travel ] (links verified 3 Nov; updated 21 Jan 2000) Search Engines and Directories all4one [MetaSearch]- Four search engines in their own frames on a single page; the simplest and one of the fastest metasearches [AltaVista, Lycos, HotBot, Excite] Alta Vista [Search] - searches and indexes the entire Web continuously; big, fast, good reputation. Galileo [MetaSearch] - a page of search engines, grouped by country (France, Germany, Switzerland, etc) (by GeoCities Paris) MetaCrawler [MetaSearch] - A list of several search services, well formatted and well documented PlanetRider Travel Directory [Directory] - an excellent world-wide travel directory. PlanetRider - Provence [Directory] - Destinations > Europe > Provence. Starting Point [Search/Directory] - a good directory and a search engine (via AltaVista). Travigator [Search/Directory] - an excellent Travel Directory and search engine. CNET - Search.Com [Search/Directory] - Supposed to be extremely fast. Excite [Search/Directory] - Site Reviews, Very Current News (city.net/countries/france/) Galaxy [Search/Directory] - HotBot [Search] - Fast! Easy-to-use modifiers for search critera. (Now owned by Lycos) Infoseek - Searches: the Web, Newsgroups, Timely News, E-Mail Addresses, Company Profiles, Web FAQs; has intelligent searches Ultraseek - Site Search function finds all pages on a web (such as Beyond) containing the desired word(s) - "link:infoseek.com" finds pages with a link to a page with "infoseek.com" in its URL. (Use "+link:infoseek.com -url:infoseek.com" to see how many external links point to Infoseek. - "url:science" Returns pages with the word science anywhere in the page's URL. Livelink Pinstripe [Search] Specifically for Business Users (was Open Text) ViaNice [Portal, Directory, Searches] (French) WebCrawler Yahoo [Search/Directory] - the big one; the daddy of them all. French Ecila LBB - a metasearch web, with easy selection of different groups of search engines. Nomade ShareLook Voila [Search] (French) The Others Lycos - supposed to be one of the "biggies", but not very up-to-date. (Now owns HotBot) Northern Light [Search/Directory] - it won't show you Beyond, so how good can it be? More Directories, Etc. Bonjour French Travel Gallery directory CanLinks [Directory] - a comprehensive listing of the WWW, with emphasis on Canadian sites. CMC Information Sources - a "directory of information sources" (a directory of directories) - about online communication and the Internet, including People Searches Deja News Research Service - The Source for Internet Discussion Groups (Newsgroups) Four 11 (white pages, for people) The Internet's largest White Page Directory with over 1.2 Million listings and 150,000 registered users. G.O.D. - Global On-line Directory [Search] - a European Directory. Imaginet - 1001 sites (List & Search) Internet et le CNAM - including getting IP & domain numbers (French) UUNET France (Internet Way) "Beyond's" own host, and an excellent window into France (French) Jayde Online Directory [Directory] - a nice looking site and a great effort, but the listings are way to big (over 700k) and have too many multiple entries. New Riders Yellow Pages Yellow Page Searching POPULUS People Locator - A free Web-based search service that locates members' E-mail addresses, their interests, etc. Web Promoting Did-it.com Detective - check your URL to see if it is listed in the search engines, and e-mail you a report FREE. Internet Promotions Megalist - A list of hundreds of sites to submit your URL to.