| Alta Vista | DEC's fast, popular search engine; try this one first! |
| IFind | searches other systems, then tabulates results into logical groupings; powerful system from Inference Corp. |
| Yahoo | logical table of contents to the World Wide Web |
| InFind | Another easy to use search engine that I like |
| The Internet Sleuth | choose your databases, then set a maximum search time |
| Hotbot | powerful search tool from HotWired and Inktomi Corp. |
| All4One | a metacrawler that requires frames (Netscape Navigator 2) |
| Savvy Search | Colorado State's experimental metacrawler |
| NlightN | probes on-line and off-line documents |
| MetaCrawler | first of the metacrawlers |
| Lycos | claims to have mapped 90% of the web |
| InfoSeek | searches text and headings |
| Argos | search engine includes sites of interest to scholars |
| Magellan | includes newgroups in searches |
| Open Text Index | indexes every single word of what it finds |
| Webcrawler | searches headings and text |
| DejaNews | specializing in Usenet newsgroup searches |
| Defense Link | DoD's search of Government Information Locator Service Files |