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All-In-One Internet
Search
A compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the
Internet. They have been combined here to form a consistent interface
and convenient ALL-IN-ONE search point.
Alta Vista (Super Spider)
A powerful and very fast search engine enables Web users to conduct
precise searches for specific information by looking for phrases,
specifying key words, using case-sensitive matches, and restricting
searches to titles or other parts of a document. It is one of the
largest search engines on the web and a favorite of researchers. It
has a partnership with LookSmart that provides it with directory listings.
For more information, please see the Alta
Vista Help Page
Dogpile
A multi engine semi-parallel search interface automatically searching
20+ search engines 3 at a time. Allows for continued searching options
and Boolean/proximity operators.
EINet Galaxy search
Search by keyword, phrase, and subject; use Boolean operators;
search for specific items. This index references a large number of
Web documents from around the world, including the home pages of most
of the world's Web servers. For more information, please see How
to Use Galaxy
Excite
There are three ways to search in Excite: Excite Search, Channels
By Excite and Excite NewsTracker. Excite Search uses search engine
listings created by crawling the web. Channels By Excite lists sites
by topics that have been approved and sometimes reviewed by editors.
Excite NewsTracker allows you to search only listings generated by
crawling specialty news sites.
HotBot
HotBot maintains the largest index available for the World Wide
Web. Expert search features include searching for a person's name
and limiting by date, media type or location. For more information,
please see the HotBot Help
page.
Infomine
Infomine provides a good collection of links to federal government
sites.
Internet Sleuth
Allows you to search the standard search engine choices or
a huge number of specialty sites, all from the same place.
Lycos
Search by keyword(s); robot-generated database that searches for
relevant URLs; user can determine if a document is useful without
having to retrieve it. Searches the World Wide Web daily. (including
Gopher and FTP space), building a database of all the web pages it
finds. Updated weekly.
Metacrawler
The MetaCrawler differs from other services in that it doesn't
maintain any internal database. Rather, it relies on the databases
of Open Text, Lycos, and others. The MetaCrawler sends your queries
to eight different services: Open Text, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek,
Excite, Inktomi, Yahoo, and Galaxy.
Northern Light Search
Northern Light crawls a significant portion of the web and qualifies
to be among the major search engines. In addition to www sites, Northern
Light also has a set of "special collection" search engine spiders.
The Special Collection sources provide you with high caliber information
that is often lacking on the Web. Northern Light will give you an
integrated results list that combines the Internet and Special Collection
results. The search results are free but it can cost up to $4 to view
the special collection items.
ProFusion
Metacrawler that allows searches of up to six major search engines
and also provides broken link detection.
Starting Point
Starting Point - MetaSearch enables you to search the Web's most
extensive databases using one simple search form. Their goal is to
provide your starting point to search the Web.
WebCrawler
Search by keyword(s); Boolean operators supported; indexes contents
of documents, not just their titles and URLs.
Yahoo!
Search by keyword(s) and subject;
keyword searches can be restricted to titles, URLs, and comments;
database compiled by user submissions and robots. For more information,
please see Yahoo Help .
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