Internet Search

NET SEARCH

If you're trying to find a particular site or document on the Internet or just looking for a resource list on a particular subject, you can use one of the online search services listed below.

OTHER DISTINGUISHED NET SEARCH SERVICES

Search engines work in many different ways - some search titles or headers of documents, others search the documents themselves, and still others search other indexes or directories. Read the descriptions below for more details on each search service.

OPEN TEXT INDEX
EXCITE
WHO WHERE?
DEJANEWS

LYCOS
ALTA VISTA
SHAREWARE.COM

MAGELLAN
YAHOO!
THE ELECTRIC LIBRARY

OPEN TEXT INDEX: The Open Text Index searches every word of every Web page the company has indexed - some 21 billion words and phrases in all. The company claims it's one of the largest indexes available. Pose queries of virtually any length, or focus in by searching only titles or links.
LYCOS: This comprehensive catalog of the Internet finds what you need in seconds, including text, graphics, sounds, and videos. PC World magazine recently rated Lycos best of the top 11 Internet search engines in both quality of information and relevancy of results.
MAGELLAN: Explore Magellan, McKinley's Internet Guide. Magellan provides reviews and ratings for a vast collection of Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, and Usenet newsgroups. Users can browse Magellan topics or search specific keywords or phrases. Magellan's green-light feature indicates content that is deemed appropriate for general viewing.
EXCITE: Excite tracks down information by searching for concepts, not just keywords. Updated weekly, Excite's database contains what the company claims are more than 1.5 million Web pages, 50,000-plus Web page reviews written by journalists, the latest two weeks of Usenet news, and classifieds. Excite also includes City.Net, news from Reuters, and an interactive cartoon.
ALTA VISTA: Offering compact or detailed searches through what the company claims is the largest Web index, Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista can help you find your way through 8 billion words filling 16 million Web pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000 newsgroups.
YAHOO!: Arguably the pioneer Internet guide, Yahoo has been accepting submissions since what seems like the beginning of it all. There's an editorial filter at work here - not every college student's home page makes it into the directory - but Yahoo's veteran status has allowed it to build a comprehensive cross-discipline resource base.
WHO WHERE?: Fast, easy to use, and free, WhoWhere? is a comprehensive White Pages service for locating people and organizations on the Net. WhoWhere? intuitively handles misspelled or incomplete names, and it lets you search by initials.
SHAREWARE.COM: shareware.com makes it simple to find software on the Internet. More than 170,000 files are available for easy searching, browsing, and downloading from shareware and corporate archives on the Internet. According to Newsweek, "shareware.com does for software what Yahoo did for finding Web sites."
THE ELECTRIC LIBRARY: Rather than searching the Web, check out the Electric Library's contents. Launch comprehensive searches across this deep database of more than 1000 full text newspapers, magazines, and academic journals; plus images; reference books; literature; and art.
DEJANEWS: Search what the company claims is the world's largest publicly searchable Usenet news archive with DejaNews. Versatile search options allow you to find articles by date, author, subject, and newsgroup. Usenet is a powerful Internet resource; DejaNews helps put it to work for you.
INFOSEEK GUIDE: This searchable directory provides reviews of popular Internet resources - Web sites, Usenet newsgroups, and FTP and Gopher sites - cross-referenced across multiple topics. Once you've found a relevant site, the "Find Similar" function searches for more of the same. The guide performs precise searches for specific phrases and proper names, and searches are sensitive to case, numbers, and special characters (for example, AT&T or 49ers).

ALPHABETICAL LISTING OF NET SEARCH SERVICES

This quick-reference list includes additional services not listed above.

Alta Vista
CERN
DejaNews
The Electric Library
Excite
Infoseek Guide
Lycos
Magellan
NlightN
Open Text Index
shareware.com
Web Crawler
Who Where?
Yahoo!

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