This page has pointers to several of the search engines available on the Internet. Check out some background information about search engines (what they are and how they work), or look below to start your search. Note that this is not a comprehensive list of all search engines.

Meta Search Engines

search.com

After you've explored some of the search engines below, you may want to try this site as a short-cut. They maintain a list of over 250 search engines, with quick and easy access to the most common ones.

SavvySearch

SavvySearch lets you search multiple search engines simultaneously. You enter your search query, they automatically submit it to InfoSeek, WebCrawler, etc., and the results are collected on one page for you.

Keyword Search Engines

Alta Vista

This site, run by Digital Equipment Corporation, has a huge web index (over 30 million pages). It also has a Usenet News database. It's very fast and comprehensive.

WebCrawler Searching

This engine allows search by document title and content. It is part of the WebCrawler project, managed by the University of Washington, which collects documents from the Web.

InfoSeek

InfoSeek is a commercial searching service. You can get a free one month trial account to see whether you like it or not. It's quite fast and it seems to always be available. There are several databases available to search in addition to the WWW pages, including InfoWorld, News Wire services, and the last 4 weeks of Usenet News.

Lycos

This search engine was developed and is served by Carnegie Mellon University. The Lycos web explorer searches the World Wide Web every day (including Gopher and FTP space), building a database of all the web pages it finds. The index is updated weekly.

Encyclopedic (Subject-Oriented) Search Engines

Yahoo!

A very comprehensive guide to resources available on the web.

Yahooligans!

The kids' version of Yahoo!

TradeWave Galaxy

EINet, authors of the MacWeb and WinWeb WWW browers, have constructed this guide to the Internet. They have indexed over 140,000 links.

The WWW Virtual Library

The Virtual Library is organized as a list of subjects, each of which contains pointers of resources on the web related to that topic. It is maintained by the W3 Consortium, the international organization which oversees the development of the protocols and standards which make the WWW possible.

The W3 List of Servers

This is a fairly comprehensive list of all of the web servers in the world, organized geographically. If you are looking for information from or about a particular part of the world, this is an excellent place to start. There's even a clickable world map which lets you point-and-click your way around the globe. The list of servers is maintained by the W3 Consortium.

Software Search Engines

SHAREWARE.COM

This index combines almost 100 of the best archives of freeware/shareware programs that are available on the Internet. Whether you're using Microsoft Windows, Macintosh, OS/2, Novell, Amiga, or Atari, this is the best place to search for software. You can search file descriptions in addition to file names.

Jumbo!

This shareware archive is organized by subject (utilities, graphics, business, etc.). The page's description pretty much speaks for itself: The Biggest, Most Mind-Boggling, Most Eye-Popping, Most Death-Defying Conglomeration of Freeware and Shareware Programs on the Known-Web!

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