Web Search Engines and Indicies

Searching the Web is easy. Check out these search engines and lists of Web sites divided by subject.

• 555-1212
  Locate people and businesses across the United States
  
• Alibris
  Search for new and used books.
  
• ALIWEB
  ALIWEB is the "Archie-Like Indexing for the Web" from the Web at Nexor in the United Kingdom.
  
• Alta Vista
  Search engine from Digital.
  
• AQUI
  The indexing and link-building site from IBM.
  
• ArchiePlexForm
  Searches anonymous FTP sites. Archie searches can take a long time.
  
• AT&T 1-800 Directory
  
• BEST
  BEST (Best Education Sites Today) is an index of education-related sites.
  
• Bibliofind
  Search for new and used books.
  
• Bigfoot
  
• Big Yellow
  Yellow and White Pages for the entire United States and several other countries.
  
• Centre Universitaire d'Informatique WWW Catalog
  The CUI W3 catalogue allows searches of major Web catalogues and directories.
  
• Configurable Unified Search Index (CUSI) Search Index
  Meta- search form on this page also provides tools for searching software indexes, people indexes, dictionaries, and other resources.
  
• DA-CLOD - Distributedly Administered Categorical List Of Documents
  Project DA-CLOD is a distributedly administered centrally stored database of hyperlinks stored by catagory of subject.
  
• DejaNews
  Search the largest index of Usenet news groups archives.
  
• DirectHit
  
• EINet Search Engine.
  EINet Galaxy provides a large index of Web and Net Resources. Search Web Pages, Gopher sites, and telnet resources from one search form.
  
• FAST Search
  
• Four-11
  Find how to contact people on and off the net.
  
• Freeality
  Lists of numerous search engines.
• Google
  
• The Harvest WWW Home Pages Broker.
  An efficient WWW indexing and search system. "Harvest" was designed and built by the Internet Research Task Force Research Group on Resource Discovery.
  
• HotBot
  The search engine from Wired Magazine.
  
• Index and Search Forms for W3 Search Engines
  Meta-Index and searching tool of Web and Internet search tools at the CERN.
  
• InfoSeek Search
  Access all the Usenet News groups, daily newswires, business and computer periodicals, and much more. Commercial service.
  
• Internet Exploration Page
  Combination of individual and multi-threaded search page.
  
• LookSmart
  A service where sites pay to be listed.
  
• The Lycos WWW Search Engine
  Lycos search engine allows efficient searches of Web and Net file titles and contents.
  
• MapBlast
  Locate maps, directions, etc. Add maps and directions to your website.
• MapBlast
  Locate maps, directions, etc.
• MapQuest
  Locate maps, directions, traffic reports, travel guides, and more.
• MESA - Meta Email Search Agent
  Search for email addresses across the globe.
• MetaCrawler
  
• My Simon
  Search for a variety of items in online stores and compare prices.
  
• Northern Light
  
• Octopus.Com
  
• Oingo
  
• Open Text Search
  Search documents on the WWW for text that starts with whatever you enter.
  
• Otis Index
  
• People Search (Yahoo!)
  
• ProFusion
  
• Raging Search
  
• SavvySearch
  Search multiple search engines through one query.
  
• Search.Com - C/Net Central
  Use over 250 different ways to search the Internet.
  
• Snap!
  
• Thomas - US Congress on the Net
  Information about past and present US Congresses. Hosted by the US Library of Congress.
  
• U-Find
  Lists of numerous search engines.
• VCET - Internet Search Center
  
• Wandex
  World Wide Web Wandering Index.
  
• The WebCrawler
  The WebCrawler project, which collects and indexes documents on the Web.
  
• WebPlaces Internet Search Tool
  
• The World Wide Web Worm
  The WWW Worm -- Voted Best of the Web '94.
  
• WWW Subject Index at CERN
  
• Yahoo
  A heirarchical listing of WWW sites, divided up by subject.
  
• Yahoo Maps
  Find where you want to go in the US before you get into your car.
  
• YellowPages (Yahoo!)
  Look up a person's telephone number right from your computer.
  
• Zip+4 Lookup - US Postal Service