SEARCH ENGINES DESCRIPTION:
- Academic Info - www.academicinfo.net
This searchable directory provides resources directed to the academic community.
Each subject heading provides an annotated listing of the best sites
on the subject.
- Direct Hit - http://www.directhit.com
Direct Hit, a subsidiary of Ask Jeeves, tracks the sites that previous Internet
searchers have selected.
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Excite - http://www.excite.com/ -
Provides access to over 50 million Web pages and thousands of Usenet postings.
Excite searches the entire Web for documents. Excite's unique features
are Wizard, which suggests terms to narrow your search, and Power Search,
which allows a more advanced search.
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Infoseek - http://www.infoseek.com -
Has indexed the full text of 50 million pages, updated daily. Unique features
include automatic name recognition, field limit searching, keyword
searching, etc.
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Yahoo Search - http://www.yahoo.com/search.html -
Provides access to a very comprehensive subject index. Useful help screens
assist you in refining your search. Also provides access to hourly
news, weather, sports, and stock reports.
META ENGINES:
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All 4 one Search Machine - http://all4one.com/ -
Allows simple searches in several engines, including AltaVista, Lycos,
and Yahoo simultaneously.
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Dogpile - http://www.dogpile.com -
Allows you to perform searches of 25 different search engines, including:
Yahoo, Lycos, AltaVista, etc.
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MetaCrawler Searching - http://www.metacrawler.com -
Provides simultaneous searching of Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista,
and Yahoo.
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