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Web Search Resources
Use one of these search engines to help you find what you are looking for on the internet.
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| | The Banana Pages | | Yellow pages, White pages, reverse lookup, street addresses, email addresses |
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| | TheList | | Internet Service Providers from around the World |
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| | Switchboard | | Free nationwide residential and business directory |
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| | WorldPages | | Search yellowpages and whitepages worldwide with WorldPages |
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| | Alta Vista | | Offering compact or detailed searches through what the company claims is the largest Web index, Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista can help you find your way through 8 billion words filling 16 million Web pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000 newsgroups |
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| | Dog Pile | | Dog Pile is a meta-engine -- a search engine that simultaneously runs searches through a number of other search engines and brings back the aggregate top results. |
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| | Excite | | Excite tracks down information by searching for concepts, not just keywords. Updated weekly, Excite's database contains what the company claims are more than 1.5 million Web pages, 50,000-plus Web page reviews written by journalists, the latest two weeks of Usenet news, and classifieds. Excite also includes City.Net, news from Reuters, and an interactive cartoon |
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| | Google | | The Google search engine uses a unique PageRank feature to organize its search database. You can not only search the web, but search individual sites, search news groups, search for images, and even do conversions using the Google search engine. |
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| | InfoSeek | | This searchable directory provides reviews of popular Internet resources - Web sites, Usenet newsgroups, and FTP and Gopher sites - cross-referenced across multiple topics. Once you've found a relevant site, the "Find Similar" function searches for more of the same. The guide performs precise searches for specific phrases and proper names, and searches are sensitive to case, numbers, and special characters (for example, AT&T or 49ers |
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| | Lycos | | This comprehensive catalog of the Internet finds what you need in seconds, including text, graphics, sounds, and videos. PC World magazine recently rated Lycos best of the top 11 Internet search engines in both quality of information and relevancy of results |
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| | Magellan | | Explore Magellan, McKinley's Internet Guide. Magellan provides reviews and ratings for a vast collection of Web, FTP, and Gopher sites, and Usenet newsgroups. Users can browse Magellan topics or search specific keywords or phrases. Magellan's green-light feature indicates content that is deemed appropriate for general viewing |
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| | Yahoo! | | Arguably the pioneer Internet guide, Yahoo has been accepting submissions since what seems like the beginning of it all. There's an editorial filter at work here - not every college student's home page makes it into the directory - but Yahoo's veteran status has allowed it to build a comprehensive cross-discipline resource base |
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| | Electric Library | | Rather than searching the Web, check out the Electric Library's contents. Launch comprehensive searches across this deep database of more than 1000 full text newspapers, magazines, and academic journals; plus images; reference books; literature; and art |
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| | Search.com | | c|net's search.com combines more than 250 search engines at one site to offer a single gateway to all the information on the Net. search.com, a service of c|net, offers access to all of the major search services, plus hundreds of specialized databases |
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| | UW's Metacrawler | | A web searcher from the University of Washington that searches many of the current popular search engines and returns up to 10 hits from each |
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| | 555-1212.com | | Telephone numbers, direct and reverse lookup. Also includes lookup for Area Codes and Country, E-Mail Adresses, Websites (searchable by area code) |
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| | American Directory Assistance | | This service lets you look up businesses or people by name, anywhere in the U.S., and get their addresses and phone numbers. If you know the city, your search will be faster |
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| | The Banana Pages | | Yellow pages, White pages, reverse lookup, street addresses, email addresses |
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| | Internet Address Finder | | Type in a last name-and optionally, a first name, organization, and domain--and get an e-mail address. Or reverse the search with an e-mail address to get user info |
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| | Switchboard | | Free nationwide residential and business directory |
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| | WhoWhere | | Fast, easy to use, and free, WhoWhere? is a comprehensive White Pages service for locating people and organizations on the Net. WhoWhere? intuitively handles misspelled or incomplete names, and it lets you search by initials |
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| | WorldPages | | Search yellowpages and whitepages worldwide with WorldPages |
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| | Deja News | | Search what the company claims is the world's largest publicly searchable Usenet news archive with DejaNews. Versatile search options allow you to find articles by date, author, subject, and newsgroup. Usenet is a powerful Internet resource; DejaNews helps put it to work for you |
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