Search Engines: Tools for Searching the WWW

Search Engines: Recommended Tools for Searching the WWW

MAJOR SEARCH ENGINES Comprehensive search tools Largest: Alta Vista * HotBot * Northern Light Medium-sized: Excite * InfoSeek * Lycos Newest: Google! * Snap	META-SEARCH ENGINES Search several simultaneously or one-at-a-time from same site MetaCrawler * Dogpile * ProFusion * All-in-One 1Blink iSleuth and more
SUBJECT DIRECTORIES: GENERAL Subject guides for a broad audience; smaller databases Yahoo * LookSmart * Mining Company * Open Directory	SUBJECT DIRECTORIES: ACADEMIC Annotated, selective guides appropriate for an academic audience Britannica * Librarians' Index * AlphaSearch * Argus * Infomine
DISCUSSION GROUPS Find and search Usenet groups, Listservs, and Web forums Lizst * Deja News * Forum One and more	PEOPLE Locate e-mail addresses and/or telephone numbers (white & yellow pages) Switchboard * U. S. West Dex * InfoSpace * Telephone Directories on the Web and more
SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES Question Format Ask Jeeves	SPECIALIZED SEARCH ENGINES Images/Multi-Media AV Photo Finder * Lycos Image Gallery * Scour.Net

Compiled 1/31/97 (Updated 4/29/99) by Laura Boyer (CSU Stanislaus, Reference Coordinator)
technical assistance by Rick Dietz and Loretta Blakeley.