Internet Search Engines

Various useful search engines
Engine Name Web Address Comments
AltaVista http://www.altavista.com One of the largest Web databases
AltaVista http://www.av.com AltaVista USA
AltaVista http://www.goeureka.com.au AltaVista Australia
Anzwers http://www.anzwers.com.au Hybrid search/directory engine
Dogpile http://www.dogpile.com Meta Search engine
Excite http://www.excite.com Only medium size database
Fast Search http://www.ussc.alltheweb.com Very Fast Search Engine
Gasta http://www.gasta.com Search Engine for Europe
Google http://www.google.com Standford University developed search engine
GoTo.com http://www.GoTo.com/ Search Engine
HotBot http://www.hotbot.com Very large database; part of Lycos network
Inference Find http://www.infind.com Meta Seach Engine
Infomine http://infomine.ucr.edu Directory of scholarly Internet resources
Infoseek http://www.infoseek.com Low retrieval rate
Internet Sleuth http://www.isleuth.com Meta Search Engine
Librarians Index to Internet http://www.lii.org Librarians Index to the Internet
Lycos http://www.lycos.com Low retrieval rate
MetaCrawler http://www.metacrawler.com Meta Search Engine
Netscape Search http://search.netscape.com Netscape Search Engine
Nothern Light http://www.northernlight.com Coverage of proprietary publications
Nothern Light http://www.nlsearch.com Coverage of proprietary publications
OzSearch http://www.ozsearch.com.au Australian subject directory
ProFusion http://www.profusion.com Meta Search Engine
AOL.COM Search http://search.aol.com AOL Search Engine
SavvySearch http://www.savysearch.com Meta Search Engine
SearchKing http://www.searchking.com Search Engine
SimpleSearch.com http://www.simplesearch.com Search Engine
Snap.com http://www.snap.com Similar to Yahoo
WWW Virtual Library http://www.vlib.com Distributed directory of scholarly resources
WebCrawler http://www.webcrawler.com Low retrieval rate
Yahoo http://www.yahoo.com Directory engine with links to AltaVista
Zerx http://www.zerx.com View sites related to another site
Zipee http://zipee.com A family friendly search engine


Last Updated on 19/06/2000
By Max Pearce
Email: maxp@happy.emu.id.au