Search engines

Alta Vista
http://www.altavista.com/
Uses special 'spider' technology to compile its massive database of Internet sites. Use it to search the Web and Usenet.

Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/
Searches the Web, FTP, Gopher and has categories for pictures, sounds, roadmaps and even people.

eXcite
http://www.excite.com/
Searches the Web and Usenet, and also has Excite Reviews, Excite City.Net, Excite Live! and Excite Reference.

Yahoo!
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/
The premier Internet directory has had a UK version for several months now. Use it to home in on UK-orientated sites.

UK Search
http://uksearch.com/
Enables you to trawl through the URLs of more than 250,000 UK Web sites.

Yell
http://www.yell.co.uk/
Directory of UK Web sites brought to you by Yellow Pages.

WebCrawler
http://www.webcrawler.com/
Searches the Web, FTP and Gopher, and has a chat area.

SavvySearch
http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/
Provides parallel search using 19 different search engines.

The Internet Sleuth
http://www.isleuth.com/
Provides single, or parallel, search using 9 Web search engines and 5 on-line news services.

Looksmart
http://www.looksmart.com/
An excellent search site from Reader's Digest (but don't let that put you off).

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