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Links to General Search Engines

• Major Internet Search Engines and Directories
• Individual, Corporation and Organization Internet Locators

Major Internet Search Engines and Directories

• All-In-One Search Page
A compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the Internet.
• AltaVista
AltaVista, a relative newcomer (on-line since December 1995), is sponsoured by Digital Equipment Corporation and is one of the more popular Internet search engines. This extremely comprehensive search engine will often turn up many more matches than you could ever review. Finely tuned search requests using AltaVista's Advanced Search feature are suggested.

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Do not use AND or OR to combine words, just type the words or phrases of your search.
• AltaVista Canada
  
  Search the Web Usenet and Display the Results in Standard Form in Compact Form in Detailed Form
  
  Do not use AND or OR to combine words, just type the words or phrases of your search.

• Excite
Excite is not as comprehensive or speedy as AltaVista and Lycos but unlike most other search engines, Excite offers the ability to search by concept and not just key words. Thus, Web sites discussing a concept without specifically using the concept's key word are theoretically findable through Excite.

Enter words describing a concept or keywords so excite can find the information for you:

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• HotBot HotWired's Internet Search Engine
  Search the Web for all the words any of the words the phrase the person the URL
  
• infoseek
Search the World Wide Web Infoseek Select Sites Usenet Newsgroups E-mail Addresses Timely News Web FAQs

• Lycos
Lycos is one of the fastest most powerful, comprehensive and flexible Internet search engines. Lycos claims to have indexed more than 90% of the Web.

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• Magellan Internet Guide
Magellan's distinguishing feature is that it provides searchable Web site ratings and reviews.

Search rated and reviewed sites only entire database

• MetaCrawler A search engine which searchs many of the leading search engines at once and returns results from all of them in a consistent manner.
  
  Phrase All words Any of these words
  Search Region: The World Your Continent Your Country Your Domain North America Europe Asia Australia South America Africa Antarctica Search Sites: Any Company Educational Network (ISP) Organization Government (US) Military (US) Intl (.int)
  
  Max wait: 1 3 5 7 10 minute(s) - Match type: Any Loose Medium Strong
• Open Text
  Search Open Text for pages containg this exact phrase: all of these words: any of these words:
  

• Starting Point Another Internet directory. The Starting Point's "MetaSearch" feature, accessible through the search field below, allows you to search many Internet search engines (one at a time) without having to re-key your search parameter.
  
  
  

• WebCrawler This popular search engine managed by America Online is easy to use but is not extensive as several other Internet search engines.
  Search the web and show titles summaries for 10 25 100 results
  

• World Wide Web Worm As with the Mother-of-all-BBS this search engine was one of the first Internet search sites and still remains quite popular despite its aging interface.
  1. Search all URL references 2. Search all URL addresses 3. Search only in document titles 4. Search only in document addresses a. AND - match all keywords b. OR - match any keyword 1 match 5 matches 50 matches 500 matches 5000 matches
  

• WWW Virtual Library
• Yahoo!
The grandfather of all Web search sites. Yahoo! is accredited with being the first major online search site and is one of the most commercially successful. Yahoo! provides an easy to use search engine and a hierarchical list of Web sites sorted by category.
• Yahoo! Canada
The Canadian equivalent to the very successful U.S. based Yahoo!


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Individual, Corporation and Organization Internet Locators

• Four 11
The Internet's largest white pages. This site provides a search engine to locate e-mail addresses of millions of Internet users around the world.
• NetCenter's Interactive Yellow Pages Click here to find products and services suppliers, indexed by product and service type, on the net.
• SuperPages' Business Search Engine
• SuperPages' Interactive Yellow Pages
• WhoWhere If you want to find a specific organization's home page - start here.
• World Wide Yellow Pages