Starting places & indexes of URLs: Comprehensive search engines. Indexes of search engines and use of several search engines. Search for: people on Internet, Usenet postings, software & files on ftp servers, Companies with web sites on Internet, Scientific and Academic resources.

Starting places & indexes of URLs

This page was written by Christopher Spry. It lists comprehensive search engines. Indexes of search engines and use of several search engines. Search for: people on Internet, Usenet postings, software & files on ftp servers, Companies with web sites on Internet, Scientific and Academic resources.

Index:

1.   Comprehensive search engines
2.   Indexes of search engines and use of several search engines
3.   Person2Person and expert sites
4.   Search for people on Internet
5.   Search Usenet postings
6.   Software & files on ftp servers
7.   Find Companies with web sites on Internet
8.   Find Scientific and Academic resources
9.   Other databases and selected web sites
10. Information about search engines and search techniques

1. Comprehensive search engines

4Anything.com, search for and access community and city portals of information.

'AllTheWeb' by 'Fast Search and Transfer ASA', Norway. Over 200 million web pages indexed on fast servers.

'Alta Vista' If in doubt, start here. It has almost everything indexed: Internet resources, Usenet, email information, etc. Digital's search engine has information from over 31 million web pages on more than 225,000 servers. You can enter queries or use it to find pictures, videos or sound files, including MP3. 'Alta Vista UK'.

'All-in-One'

'Ask Jeves' question input

'Centraal' register of words combinations which are mapped to web sites for direct searching in web browsers.

'CUSI', 'SUSI' at Hinxton Hall. People, places, information and resources on Internet.

'Daypop'

'Direct Hit' Indexed by popularity

'Electric Monk' question input

'Excite'

'Global Online Directory' 'GOD', Arts & Crafts; Business; Community & Education Entertainment; Financial Services; Games; Leisure & Pleasure; Paranormal; Personal Home Pages; Sports; Technology & Computers; Travel.

'Google', my favourite search engine for web pages, images online and Usenet news postings.

'Hotbot'

'Infoseak'

'Lycos', UK

'Mamma'

'MonkeySweat' search engine, Ontario, Canada.

'MSN' Microsoft's search engine

'Search.com' at CNET

'WebCrawler' yellow pages; maps; people; products; books; horoscopes; classifieds; stock quotes; weather; music.

'WiseNut' CNET Editor's choice for search engines, December 2001.

'Yahoo!, UK. One of the best search engines. It has a classified section.

2. Indexes of search engines and use of several search engines

December Communications Inc. Internet information and searching.
DEMOZ Open Directory project of indexed URLs indexed by editors
Direct Search by Gary Price of George Washington University.
'Eureka!' Access many major search engines using a single entry system.
'All-in-One' >180 search engines available.
InvisibleWeb by Intelliseek, makers of the BullsEye family of search products who are also developing 'ProFusion'.
Lookupnow, UK portal to many search resources.
'Meta-index' at NCSA. A loosely categorized meta-index of resource directories and indices.
Multimeta meta search several well-known search engines.
SearchEngine Watch. Guide and links to search engines.
Starting points for Internet access, NCSA.
'W3 Search Engines' links to many different kinds of search engines: Information servers; Software; People; Publications; News/FAQs; Documentation; Online catalogues and shopping; Other Interesting Things (Jargon; Acronyms; WIRED ...); Search with human assistance; Domain names; URL registration; Tools for information access.

3. Person2Person and expert sites

Ask Jeeves plain-language search engine.
AskMe.com
Exp.com.
Expertcity.com
Keen.com
Microsoft's Encarta.com, the MSN Network's learning channel.
NBCi investment and marketing information.
Yahoo free service links questioners with people who claim specialized knowledge in various disciplines.

4. Search for people on Internet

BT phone numbers PhoneNetUK.
eServices at Microsoft. Search for individual postal and email addresses in the USA.
'Friends Reunited'. Search for people by Schools attended in the UK.
InfoSpace.com people search UK.
'Internet @ddress finder'.
'search.com' Yellow Pages; Phone Numbers; Email Addresses; Message Boards; Software; Stock Quotes; City Maps.
'Switchboard' People, emails, businesses, maps etc.
Teldir.com international white and yellow pages linked to many search resources.
'WhoWhere?' email white page service, Lycos.
Yahoo! people searches.

5. Search Usenet postings

'Deja News', Search 'all' Usenet messages for information. This is where I go for current information.

Selected Usenet postings that contain URLs.

'NewzBot'. Search for public Usenet servers.

6. Software & files on ftp servers

'Filez' Software, indexed by platform and title.

'Lycos ftp' Software and files on ftp servers. Search by filename.

7. Find Companies with web sites on Internet

eServices at Microsoft. Search for companies in the USA.

UK 'Yellow Pages' UK business numbers and addresses.

US 'Yellow Pages' USA business numbers and addresses.

8. Find Scientific and Academic resources

'ac/dc' UK ACademic DireCtory online, searchable index of academic related material. Canterbury UK.
Boxmind, portal to academic topics online.
Cardean University UNext on-line tertiary education resources.
Education.com, by Vivendi access to Havas books and educational material.
Global Education Network (GEN) liberal arts education on-line.
National Information Services and Systems' (NISS) Directory of UK academic resources.
Research Development Network, (RDN). UK catalogues of resources selected for their quality and accuracy.
Scientific information on Internet by Alexander Lebedev, with links to search resources.
SCRAN. UK academic database of history and culture with photos, objects, art, movies and audio.

9. Other databases and selected web sites

Best of the Web Awards, USA.

'Cool Site of the Day' New York links to selected 'cool' sites.

'Blast'. The Web's 'top sites' chosen by Encyclopedia Britannica's editors.

'GoTo.com' Software; sweepstakes; recipes; auctions; football; investments; grab bag; travel; games; automobiles; screensavers; jewellery.

'ALIWEB' Information supplied by groups and institutions

'Computer-Mediated Communication course', USA.

'Whois ' Owners of Internet names.

10. Information about search engines and search techniques

'Search engine watch'.

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� cspry@sghms.ac.uk. Department of Biochemistry & Immunology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK. Phone +44 20-8725 5819; fax +44 20-8725 5821. This page was last updated on 21 March 2002 09:39:34.