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The Web... WWW InfoPage
Searching and Wandering the Web

"How do I find X?"

Turn to friendly spiders, robots, wanderers, and other web creepy crawlers...

The Internet is huge, vast, and some might say, in horrific disarry. How do you find things in all of this? There is no one single index or tool to find everything and anything. However, there are some resources out there to make it a little easier. We've tried to organize the various search engines into similar categories for the ways in which they search and the scope of what they search.

If you do not find a search type here, try the ever-growing list maintained at Yahoo

No matter what, you will end up having to do some exploring....

One Page-One Click Meta-Searches

A "Meta-Search" will take your query and search for it by sending your request to other search engines, all in parallel. The "one-click" approach means doing all of this work from a single interface.
Savvy Search
has a single field for you to enter keywords and sends your request to more than 18 other major web search sites. SavvySearch has a built in mechanism to rank your search and send it to the most appropriate sites.
MetaCrawler
is a "Multi-Threaded Web Search Service" designed to take your keyword and submit it to several other search angines, returning a ranked list of sites in one form. MetaCrawler can also authenticate the returned links, which may take longer than other search engines, but offers more reliabel results.
IBM InfoMarket
can conduct parallel keyword searches by sending the request to Disclose SEC database, McKinley Internet Direct, OpenText Internet Search, USENET Newsgroups, and Yahoo. You have to register for the service, but it is free.
W3 Catalog
The W3 catalog is a huge searchable collection of W3 resources. It is created daily by concatenating a list of resource databases collected by other net providers including the NCSA What's New Archives

One Page-Several Click Meta-Searches

These are pages that have have set up interfaces to search many other sites. Typically you will have to enter your keywords in several places and submit them individually. However, this is much easier than connecting to each search site seperately.
CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Engine)
is a "one-page-does-all"-- a configurable search interface for many searcheable WWW resources. It allows you to quickly check related resources, without having to navigate an re-type the keywords.
Find-It
offers an extensive array of search sites, nicely organized into tables.
All-In_one Internet Search
from its description, "This page is a compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the Internet. They have been combined here to form a consistent interface and convenient ALL-IN-ONE search point." The searches are categorized (i.e. Wordl Wide Web, Software, Publications/Literature, News) and is very comprehensive.
The Inquirer
provides a one page access to many of the major web search sites, grouped into the categories of Current Events, Software Files, Reference Materials, and People and Computers
The Internet Sleuth
provides a subject-oriented directory of hundreds of other searchable indexes and databases.

Robots, Spiders, and Crawlers

All of these creatures are built up by sending out "agents" on the world wide web that follow every link possible, returning their results to a large, searchable database. For more information, take a look at Robots, Wanderers, and Spiders
Open Text Index
is a fast, powerful search engine to a massive index of the Web. The results include not only links to sites that match the search criteria, but also a short description, keywords taken from the headers of documents, and an ability to conduct a search of similar sites. OpenText also offers a "Power Search" page where you can construct more complex queries.
Lycos
created at Carnegie Mellon University, is the catalog of the Internet. The Lycos web explorer searches the World Wide Web every day (including Gopher and FTP space), building a database of all the web pages it finds. The index is updated weekly. The search engine provides retrieval from this catalog, taking a user's query and returning a sorted list of hits, sorted by match score.
WebCrawler
is one of the most popular, fastest and easy-to-use Internet search tool available in the market today.
Harvest
an integrated set of tools to gather, extract, organize, search, cache, and replicate relevant information across the Internet. The results are ranked by relevance and include a title, URL, link, and a one line description
InfoSeek
"the most powerful and popular way to search the Web" offers full searches for commercial cleints, but anyone can use its search engine for a free 10 item search. The results are ranked and include a short description
NIKOS
is a project between Rockwell Network Systems and Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo to create a fast and friendly Internet Resource Locator.
World Wide Web Worm
allows you to locate almost any WWW hypertext or URL. WWWW provides four types of search databases: citation hypertext, citation addresses (URL), HTML titles and HTML addresses.
ALIWEB
searches the web and returns a ranked list with descriptions.
RBSE Spider
This index is a collection of url references built up and indexed with a hacked version of WAIS. The index is constructed by a spider that walks the web, building a graph in an Oracle database, and WAIS indexing the full text of the document.

Open Submission Sites- Yellow Pages

These sites allow public announcing of their web sites and then in turn , you can search their collections.
New Rider's Yellow Pages
can be searched by keyword or subject category
Virtual Yellow Pages
is a comprehensive and easy to use directory of Web sites and information. The VYP¨ uses a revolutionary patented search engine that gives you the power of natural language concept searching as well as keyword search.
What's New Too
one of the most up-to-date and fastest growing resources on the net, What's New Too! posts an average of over 300 announcements daily, all within 36 hours of submission. Search the collection based uopn desired interest area, length of description, and date of announcement

Search Big, Major Sites

Many of the large volume/high traffic web sites are worth searching, too.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a hierarchical subject-oriented catalogue for the World Wide Web and Internet.
TradeWave Galaxy
searches the extensive collections of the TradeWave Galaxy (formerly known as EINet)

Random Selection

When all else fails, try a random site generator!
URouLette
When all else fails, why not try random luck? Click on the spinning wheel and who knows where you will land!
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