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Find People, Places, Businesses, Information and Things on the Net


Search Engines

Alta Vista Link Excite Link Mamma Link Savvy Search Link HotBot Link Infoseek Link Web Crawler Link Look Smart Link Yahoo Link


Type once, Get results from 37 search engines!


All in One - Access every major search engine from this bookmark
AltaVista - This massive search engine submits simple and advanced searches on the Web and Usenet
Arriba Vista -- An image search directory that retrieves pictures. Enter a keyword and it will search for a picture
ATM Locator for Mastercard and Cirrus -- Find an ATM machine of your choice anywhere in the USA
ATM Locator for Visa and Plus -- Find an ATM machine of your choice anywhere in the USA
Debriefing -- Queries several major search engines and provides accurate returns. Ranks all returns by relevance.
Deja News -- Great search engine for newsgroups. Find any topic in the newsgroups with this search engine
Disinformation -- This database indexes WWW documents relating to current affairs, politics, new science and the hidden, 'underground' information that rarely finds its way into the mass media.
Excite NetSearch -- Net and news directory as well as standard work search tool
Filez -- This search engine will find files from software to multimedia files on the internet
Google! -- Google! is a Stanford University project designed to find the most relevant Web pages (those with the most inbound links) and run searches against them. The 25 million pages currently catalogued seem to be good choices; the site has an uncanny knack for returning extremely relevant results.
HotBot -- Another very powerful search engine
Identify -- Allows users to search for a product and can narrow the search by product type and price range
Inference Find -- Performs a parallel search of Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, WebCrawler, AltaVista, and Infoseek) at the same time
Infoseek - This is a well laid out site for the pleasure surfer
Infoseek Ultra -- Impressively fast, accurate search features; includes URL, image Web site and Webpage title searching
Internet Sleuth -- Searches from over 2000 databases for the WWW, News, Business and Finance, Sports, Software and Usenet. Very easy to use
Liszt -- More than 80,000 mailing lists on just about every topic known to man
LookSmart -- Has screened over a million web sites and selected quality content that most users will find useful
Lycos - Offers the largest catalog of URL's plus critical reviews of the Web's top sites
Magellan -- One of the stellar search engines on the net
Mamma -- The Mother of all search engines; submits your search to several search engines
MetaCrawler -- Submits your keyword to a variety of search engines and provides a compiled list
NewsBot -- The ultimate guide to news online. Search for all kinds of news
NewsTracker -- A news search engine which queries more than 300 online news sources
Northern Light -- Advanced searching features and provides folders for organizing returns
OneKey -- Uses human editors to review and evaluate every web site in their database
Savvy Search -- Submits your search to several other search engines
Search Engine Watch -- A useful tutorial that can teach you how to refine your searches. The site also maintains a comprehensive list of search-engine links.
Search.Onramp.Net -- Performs parallel searches on A2Z, AltaVista, Infoseek. Inktomi, Lycos, Webcrawler and Yahoo
Shareware Search Engine -- This Ziff-Davis shareware directory offers downloads and reviews
Surf Doubler -- Identifies a home page and searches that site
WebCrawler - Updated service lets users decide whether to see a document title or summary information that contains key phrases
Yahoo - Travel through the land of Internet with lots of search options

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Date last Modified: June 4, 1999
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