Opened in Dec. 1995, AltaVista is run by Digital and has gained wide-spread name and recognition. It also partnered with Yahoo in June 1996, becoming the "preferred" search engine. The Business and People options, search USA yellow and white pages. Browsing by subject categories is an additional feature.

Launched in late 1995, Excite lists sites in one of three ways: Excite Search, Channels By Excite and Excite NewsTracker.

Since early 1995, Infoseek is well-known, well-reviewed and well-connected. In Fall 1996, the new service with 50 million URLs was introduced.

Since May 1994, Lycos is one of the oldest of the major search engines. Lycos lists sites in two main ways. There are search engine listings, and there is an associated directory called "Web Guides." Each guide is oriented around a subject area, such as News or Shopping. They list sites, along with links to other relevant material.

Northern Light opened to general use on Aug. 12, 1997. Northern Light features an ability to classify documents by topic, which it hopes to distinguish it from some of the other search services, even those with their own topical listings.

WebCrawler opened to the public on April 20, 1994. WebCrawler has an associated directory of reviewed sites, WebCrawler Select.

Around since late 1994, Yahoo is the oldest major web site directory. Yahoo is well-known, well-used and well-respected. It is also the largest directory (as opposed to search engine), listing 500,000+ web sites, as of mid 1997.

One of the oldest meta search services, MetaCrawler began in July 1995 at the University of Washington.

University of Kansas metacrawler that allows searches of up to six major search engines and also provides broken link detection.

Contains an economics search engine, job openings for economists, and conference calls in economics as well free alert services for the latter.

Search engine devoted to the interests of social workers and other helping professionals.

The Philosophical Search Engine.

Presents links to hundreds of different search engines. Lists over 1,000 search engines and directories, classified geographically or into major categories such as "Entertainment" and "Science." There are also "Big" pages in English, Dutch, Spanish, German, French and Japanese that list key search services in various categories.

Search tool for geo-environmental professionals.

With local, national and international news.

Features law enforcement, fire and related web sites. Add your site or search for your favorite.

Comprehensive searchable categorized index with reviews of over 17,000 educational and reference Web sites. Great for students and educators alike.

Demonstration contains information collected on travel related resources and information.

Comprehensive search engine. Includes resources for arts, business, computers, internet, education, feminism, health, magazines, shopping, fashion, sports, and more.