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Metacrawler - This engine employs several other search engines -- Lycos, InfoSeek, WebCrawler, Excite, Alta Vista and Yahoo, MetaCrawler and ranks results by relevance. One of MetaCrawler's advantages over other search engines is its standardization of query syntax. [e.g., Surround groups of words that must occur together with quotation marks. Specify words and phrases that must appear in documents by prefixing them with a plus sign and those that must not occur be prefixing them with a minus sign. There should be no spaces between a + or - sign and the word to which it applies. There should be a space between individual query terms.] Metacrawler contains the feature "META SPY" which enables you to see and join searches currently being conducting by others. <http://www.metacrawler.com>
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Search
Spaniel
- Search Spaniel lets you use as many search engines as you like simultaneously and groups related search engines together under categories. In addition, you can personalize Search Spaniel by selecting from the 200+ engines available to create a personal list. Each time you return, the list will be displayed for use. <http://www.searchspaniel.com>
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Inference
Find!
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HotBot
- PC Computing put several search engines to the test in May of 1997. HotBot won the competition. HotBot's "SuperSearch" button gives you many options for searching. Click "Tips" for searching advice. A Links-to-this-URL feature enables you to find out how many people have linked to your web pages or to any other web page. If your search returns too many results, a SuperSearch feature enables you to add additional search terms to modify your original search. In SuperSearch, a pop-up menus for "must contain, should contain, and must not contain" and for "the words, the exact phrase, the person and links to this URL" enable you to modify the original search. Additionally, SuperSearch allows you (1) to specify how "deep" into web sites you want to search -- i.e., front page, depth:3 and (2) to use such meta words as "title:xxxx" to find all occurrences of xxxx in the title; or domain:.edu to find matches in URLS with the domain ".edu"; or date meta words -- after:[day]/[month]/[year], within:[number]/[unit], or before:[day]/[month]/[year] to restrict results to documents created after, within or before designated unites of time. <http://www.hotbot.com>
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SiFMuG
Universal Interface
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Présence
Web : The domain name search engine
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Study
WEB
- A collection of over 44,000 Research Quality URLs organized by category, including literature, history, writing & writers, metaphysics, grammar & composition -- a full academic array. <http://www.studyweb.com>
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Excite
- Excite offers general searching and an extensive and interesting list of categories. "Search Tips" give guidance for use. According to Habib and Balliot, this subject and keyword search tool is good for beginners. Habib as Balliot admire its well organized headings and links, and clear instructions. <http://www.ultranet.com/~egrlib/tutor.html> Excite data base contains full texts of over 50 million documents. <http://www.excite.com>
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AltaVista
- After you specify language(s) sought, Alta Vista uses keywords to search full text databases, which presently have the largest and most inclusive indices. Help pages offer information for advanced searches including the use of meta words, controlling case sensitivity, and refining queries without starting over. Searches may specify images and text and can limit by date. <http://www.altavista.digital.com>
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Infoseek
- Subject and keyword approach to searching over 50 million web pages. New site submissions are added immediately. Infoseek provides detailed instructions on use of operators Help. Provides many services under "Smart Information" on Help Page. <www.infoseekcom>
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Lycos
- Catalog search tool with clear help pages to narrow the search. <www.lycos.com>
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Yahoo!
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Ask
Jeeves
- Ever wonder why you can't just ask a question in plane English? Ask Jeeves permits natural language queries. <http://www.askjeeves.com>
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Open
Text
- Web-searching engine as well as intranet searching. <http://www.opentext.com>
- Directories
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Bigfoot
- Search engine for finding people, businesses and jobs..
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Four11
- Searches E-Mail addresses.
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WhoWhere?
- Find an apartment, buy a car, find a job, yellow pages, home pages, companies on line, etc.
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GTE
SuperPages
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Authors
- Search for an Author
- Contains "Search for an Author" category with alphabetical listing of authors.
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How
to Use the Galaxy
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How
To Use Meta Tags
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How
To Use Search Engines
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Internet
Search Resources for High School Students
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LookSmart
- Reference & Education - Arts & Humanities
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LookSmart
- Reference & Education - Encyclopedias
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LookSmart
- Reference & Education - Arts & Humanities - Literature
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Media
Metrix Search Engine Ratings
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Netscape
Net Search
- This site describes search engines, web guides, white & yellow pages and specialized searches.
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Power
Searching For Anyone
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Search
Engine Watch: News, Tips and More About Search Engines
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Search
Engine Alliances Chart
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Responses to Web site? Send E-mail.
- Meta-search Engines
- Tired of hitting "Next 10 hits?" Inference Find searches several
engines concurrently -- at this time, WebCrawler, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista,
InfoSeek and Excite. It merges returned results, removes redundancies
and clusters results in understandable categories. You specify the
maximum amount of time for a search. While Boolean operators may
be used, they assist in narrowing for search meaningfully only for those
engines that support such operators. <http://infind.inference.com/infind/infind.exe>
- SiFMug contains a huge list of search engines. SiFMug was designed
as a web-based tool for finding worldwide and global information on the
Internet with an unified gateway interface -- that is, with either 32-bit
or 16-bit platform browsers, either window-based or text-based. SiFMuG
uses keywords to search. <http://hastu.com/others.html>
CUI
W3 Search Engines
- An extensive, categorized list of search engines and search tools with
links to all and search boxes for many. The table below lists names
and types of search tools. <http://cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html>
- This extensive database is searched by keyword and by navigating through
categories. If no matches are found in its database, Yahoo automatically
initiates a web-widesearch using AltaVista. Click "Options" or "Help"
for additional use guidelines. <http://www.yahoo.com>
Spider-based WWW Catalogues
Web-Crawler
- Searches WWW document content. <http://webcrawler.com>
Last Revised 3/15/98
