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The following meta-directories (search engines) are here to help guide you around the Internet. Each engine contains a continually growing list of information for you to access. Simply pick a directory and enter a few key words. If your search comes up empty try another service.

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[Filez.com] [Alta Vista] [Webcrawler] [Yahoo Canada] [InfoSeek] [OpenText]
[TradeWave Galaxy] [Lycos] [Excite] [Snoopie] [ArchiePlex]

Filez - #1 Search Engine with over 75 million filez!
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[ALTA VISTA] Alta Vista | Help

Search the Web or the News Groups
Display results Compact or Detailed

Example: kayak sailing "San Juan Islands"

WebCrawler LogoWebCrawler | Help The WebCrawler is a robot generated index of the Web.
Enter some words and start your search:

Find pages with of these words and return results.

Yahoo! Canada Logo Help | Yahoo USA Yahoo is a hierarchical subject-oriented catalogue for the World Wide Web and Internet.
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[Net Search]Infoseek

InfoSeek Net Search is the most powerful and popular way to search the Web. Help

The Open Text IndexOpenText

Simple Search:

For what?

How? This phrase All of these words Any of these words

Galaxy LogoTradeWave Galaxy

Galaxy is a guide to worldwide information and services and is provided as a public service by TradeWave and Galaxy guest editors.
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Match any search term, or all search terms.

Search the Web - for each document: Search all text , title text only, or link text only.

Also search Galaxy Pages Gopher Titles Telnet Resources

Lycos LogoLycos | Help

Lycos (tm) is the catalog of the Internet. 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.

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Excite Excite | Help
Enter words describing a concept or keywords so that excite can find information for you:

Web Documents: Search the largest web database, more than 1.5 million pages.
Usenet: Search more than 1 million articles from 10,000 newsgroups.
Classifieds: Search Usenet classified advertisements from the past two weeks.
Reviews: Search our database of over 35,000 web site reviews.
Snoopie - The Internet's Fastest File Search Snoopie

[ About Snoopie | Snoopie Stats | Webmasters! ]

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ArchiePlex

Finding files through the Web.

ArchiePlex is an Archie gateway for the World Wide Web, allowing you to find files on Anonymous FTP sites in the Internet using a forms interface.

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