World Wide Web Search Engines

Yahoo! is the most popular, full-featured, and organized search engine on the Internet. Some independent studies have shown that Yahoo! can double the traffic of your Web site. Visit Yahoo!'s option site or join My Yahoo! to customize your searching experience.

Yahooligans! is a kids' search engine.
Yahoo! Washington D.C. is a part of the Yahoo metros.

Excite! is probably the second most popular engine on the Internet. It has a very vast database.
Magellan Internet Guide is also owned by Excite!, Inc.
Webcrawler is an excellent engine. It works much differently from Yahoo. Webcrawler is owned by Excite!, which acquired it from AOL in 1997.
HotBot is a very popular engine. It's rather disorganized, but still offers the user a clean interface.
MetaCrawler searches many different search engines and puts the results on a list that can get rather large. It always seems to manage to get something that other engines always miss.
Lycos advertises itself as the most complete index on the Intenet. Use the Lycos ProSearch to optimize your searching experience.
MSN Search is Microsoft's contribution to WWW search engines.
Opentext is a small search engine. Like all, it can be useful.
InfoSeek is a reasonable search engine, though minorly disorganized.
Northern Light is a rising star on the Web portal scene.
Scrub the Web offers a good database to search.
Ask Jeeves takes an interesting approach to searching. Just ask a question like "How many people live in the United States?"
ZenSearch was created to add some quality to Web search engines. It requires a site have good content at the very least.
SimpleSearch is for the novice computer user.
PlanetSearch is a web portal and search engine.
Infohiway offers an annoying framed interface.
Linkmaster doesn't present many links, but has lots of specific search categories. Not bad, if you don't mind the frames.
AliWeb claims to be the "oldest and cleanest" search engine on the WWW.
GoTo is very bland.
Matilda is an Austrailian search engine.
InfoTiger ranks sites.

Specialized Search Engines

The following search engines are designed for locating less generic search strings.

Hacks

The following locate different hacks on the Internet, such as ones which alter programs or your desktop in interesting ways.

Astalavista searches a wide range of hacks.

Regional Search Engines

The following search engines locate information by region, be it state, national, or local.

Altavista Austrailia searches Austrailian sites.
Altavista Canada searches Canadian sites.
In 2 Ireland searchs sites in Ireland. Includes a list of the top 101 sites in Ireland.
The India Search Engine offers many different services.
Heuréka searches for web sites on Hungarian servers. The site is not in English.
RagnoItaliano is an Italian search engine. The page is not in English.

Literature and Documentation

The following sites locate literature relevant to your search criteria.

Search Argos covers documents on the ancient world.

Other Protocols

The following search engines are for other popular Web protocols, such as Gopher (those who were on the 'Net early might remember Gopher), FTP, and Newsgroups.

FTP Search is an excellent tool for finding the files you need. If the FTP site of a large corporation goes down (that was not directed completely at Microsoft), FTP Search is a great way to find the file you need when you need it.
Snoopie is another FTP search engine.
WhoWhere searches and indexes e-mail addresses (sometimes without the permission of the e-mail address's owner). It is quite useful though.
Usenet Addresses is just a bunch off e-mail addresses taken off Usenet newsgroups and indexed in a search engine.
There is little content left out there in the Gopher world. Few people are interested in Gopher. But those who are, ought to try Veronica.

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