W3 Search Engines

This documents collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW. Omissions are the fault of the maintainer. Suggestions for additions are welcome! Submit buttons have now been added to accommodate non-Mosaic browsers. Links that appeared to be broken 1997-12-11 are now in a separate page. Please let me know if one of those is still available! If you find this page especially useful, why not install a local copy on your machine? It will work from anywhere. The original source of this page is atYou may also be interested in trying out Martijn Koster's CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Interface), and the External Info page at Twente University.

For registering a new URL we suggest to use Scott Banister's Submit It service.

Looking for:

• Information servers
• Software
• People
• Publications
• News/FAQs
• Documentation
• Online catalogs and shopping
• Other Interesting Things (Jargon, Acronyms, WIRED ...)
• Search with human assistance

Information Servers

List-based WWW Catalogs

See also:

Study Web reviews and categorizes over 20,000 focused academic sites.

Hot Lava.

Aliweb at Nexor

Find-it! (Paul Sarena's info collection)

Lifestyle.UK Categorised (10'000+)links, geographically sorted under 87 different headings.

Sharelook Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch).

EC rider Categorized and reviewed sites in the Netherlands.

InfoBase International

OmniTree Categorised (~60 000) links about Computers

Spider-based WWW Catalogs

Recommended:

WWW Worm

Natural language queries

Other Catalogs

Interesting:

Tsunami surfing page

Orb Search (was Planet Search)

Austria Click

Les pages web Plus de 4.000.000 pages en langue française

Other Meta-Search Engines

SiFMuG (Surfing Internet Facilitated Multipurpose Unified Gateway) references a huge list of search engines.

Search Spaniel lets you use as many search engines as you like simultaneously.

Inference Find the Intelligent Fast Parallel Web Search.

Software

See also:

Nexor's Mac Software Catalog

FTP search

People

See also:

FOUR11 Directory Services

Publications

See also:

Cornell University's Technical Report Library

News/FAQs

Interesting:

Conference Announcement Archive (moderated by Juergen Wagner)

Zippo News Service

Documentation

See also:

Nexor's Public Services

RFC index at Nexor

Internet Draft Index at Nexor

webreference.com -- The Webmaster's Reference Library

Online catalogs and shopping sites

Buyer's Index -- Search over 6,500 mail order catalogs and WWW shopping sites

Other Interesting Things

See also:

WIRED Archive

Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

Search with human assistance

Human search -- provide no-cost human searching assistance!

SearchMill.com -- live human search experts find things for you on the Internet

See also: CUI's collected search engines.

Thanks to all who have contributed suggestions!