net searching tools

• `With 54 million documents, HotBot is the most complete Web index online.'
• USE IT - Unified Search Engine for InTernet ` ...is an innovative service that allows simultaneous searches in up to 40 different databases. Compared with other metasearch services "USE IT!" offers an unusually wide coverage. In addition to the most well know generic search engines (such as Alta Vista, Lycos , Excite , Yahoo and the like) it supports many interesting business-oriented, news-oriented and country specific databases.

• MapIt a search engine that will show you a map for a USA address you specify: `The Address Locator page lets you tell us the location you want to map. We'll find the location as best we can and then go to the Map Navigation page and turn the controls over to you for further exploration. '

• RES-Links: Finding People/Organizations/Hosts
• Who Where? search for email addresses & phonebook info | Find a Person
• Internet Address Finder
• Yahoo keyword searches of the web and more
• WWW Virtual Library , a subject catalog to the Web.

• Alta Vista `... gives you access to the largest Web index: 30 million pages found on 225,000 servers, and three million articles from 14,000 Usenet news groups. It is accessed over 12 million times per weekday.' by Digital

• Awesome Lists (makulow@trainer.com) `Gathered here, from one Internet trainer's viewpoint, are the glory and grandeur of the Internet, the sine qua non of Cyberspace, the main characters in the evolving drama ... to highlight the value, breadth and depth of the Internet.... John Makulowich'

• Netscape's Internet Search includes links to many more search tools including
  • CERN
  • Excite
  • Lycos
  • Magellan
  • NlightN
  • Open Text Index
  • Web Crawler

  search for software

• shareware.com `the way to find software on the Internet'
• Enhance Software's Links to Shareware

  Usenet news group archives

• DejaNews has about a year and a half of Usenet postings (I think)
• Alta Vista has a few weeks of Usenet postings (I think)

  mailing list services

• Liszt: Searchable Directory of e-Mail Discussion Groups

  newsgroup info

• usenet FAQs
• Alta Vista has searchable news group archives

  guidance

• The Scout Report , `... a weekly publication provided by the Info Scout and the InterNIC to provide a sampling of the best of newly announced Internet resources'
• Exploring the Internet from Cochran Communications

  newspapers & services

• Philadelphia Daily News and Inquirer | search tool | archive
• NewsLink | Newspapers Worldwide has links to hundreds of papers