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Web Search Overview
Single Search


These services maintain their own database. By registering your site, a reference to it is added to this database, often with keywords and a short description, depending somewhat on the service provider.

  • Aliweb
    This is Nexor's Archie-Like Indexing for the Web.

            Keywords:
    Number of hits:

    Hint: Use multiple keywords separated by spaces; it is case insensitive.

  • Alta Vista (Web search)
    Very fast results, wide-range and up-to-date.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Enter phrases in quotation marks (e.g. "Pipo the clown"). For more details, read
    Alta Vista's search help.

  • Excite Net Search
    Excite maintains a database of more than 1.5 million Web pages.

    Keywords:

    Hint: No special syntax required.

  • FTP search '95
    FTP-site search engine, version 3.0.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Any keyterm will do.

  • Harvest Broker
    A WAIS-based Web search site with more than 70,000 home pages.

             Keywords:
    Hits per engine:

    Hint: Narrow your search with AND or NOT between words. Broaden your search with OR.

  • Infoseek Guide
    A comprehensive and accurate database of cataloged and reviewed sites.

     Keywords:
    Categories:

    Hint: Use plain-English sentences or keywords and phrases. For more options, check the special query operators.

  • Inktomi
    A fast engine with a 1 million+ document database. Results are ranked by relevance.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Put a plus sign (+) before your keyword if it must appear, a minus sign (-) otherwise.

  • LinkStar
    A hugh directory of Web sites, personal addresses and businesses.

    Keyword, name, or phrase
    Company name
    Person
    City
    State or province
         Zip code:
          Country:
        Category:
    Max results:

    Hint: A word in any of the boxes will do.

  • Lycos
    Lycos is famous for the number of results and their accuracy.

    Keywords:

    Hint: All keywords are searched individually. You can also perform an advanced search.

  • Magellan
    McKinley's Internet directory has thousands of rated sites, with a "green light" for sites that are apparently free of adult content.

    Keywords:

    Search options:



    Hint: The more terms you enter, the more results you'll get.

  • Open Text
    Open Text is quite popular amongst fast and complete Web catalog searches.

    Keywords:

    Options:
    phrase
    all words (AND)
    any words (OR)

    Hint: Narrow your search with AND. Broaden your search with OR.

  • Point Search
    An index consisting of pre-checked, evaluated and rated material. The top 5% of the Web, as they call it.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Any word, phrase or partial word will do.

  • RBSE's URL Database
    This URL collection, gathered by a spider and indexed by WAIS, is part of NASA's Repository Based Software Engineering (RBSE) project.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Any entry will do.

  • Sherlock Homes
    An alphabetically ordered index of personal homepages from over 30 countries. You have to go there to search the database.

  • Snoopie Internet File Finder
    A fast file finder with over 5.5 million FTP site files in its database.

  • TradeWave Galaxy
    Used-to-be EINet Galaxy. A collection of Web information similar to Yahoo.

    Keywords:

    Output:

    Match:
    any search term
    all search terms

    Search:
    the web galaxy pages gopher titles telnet resources

    for
    all text title text only link text only

    Hint: Narrow your search by separating words with AND or NOT. Widen the search with OR.

  • Tribal Voice
    Tribal Voice offers 150,000 Web links in various subject areas. It is also the home of Powow, a first-class chat client.

             Keywords:
    Hits per engine:

    Hint: Just enter a word describing your subject of interest.

  • Virtual Yellow Pages
    Not the fastest and mainly business orientated.

    Keywords:
    OR

    Hint: Either phrases or just relevant keywords will do. Check the OR box to narrow your search.

  • W3 Catalog
    Winfield Communications' mirror of the European CUI/SCG collection of Web-related resources (includes Aliweb).

    Keyword:

    Hint: Enter a search word or Perl regular expression. It is case insensitive.

  • Web Crawler
    Very fast, but not always as thorough as some of the other big-shots.

    Keywords:
    Search for of these words and return results.

    Hint: Narrow or broaden your search with the options

  • World Wide Web Worm
    Getting a little old, but still standing tall.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Overwhelming results... Be warned.

  • Yahoo
    Yahoo searches its own site descriptions by URL and title.

    Keywords:

    Hint: Any search term will do.


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