W3 Search Engines
 | 'Conference notes that scrapping Trident now would release around £1.5 billion annually which could and should be constructively employed in areas of obvious need such as housing education and the health service as well as ensuring the creation of alternative employment and retraining of displaced defence workers.'
The Scottish Labour Party Conference delivers a 'slap in the face' to Defence Secretary George Robertson, 6 th March 1998. |  |
Search Engines compiled by CUI
NB. This search page has been made freely available by 
This document 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!
NB: 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 at CUI] You may also be interested in trying out Martijn Koster's CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Interface), or visiting Search Engine Watch site which provides detailed information on how search engines work, along with tips on getting better results.
For registering a new URL we suggest to use Scott Banister's Submit It service.
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Last update of this list on February 2, 1998.
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 Deutschland Die schnelle Netzsuche (auf Deutsch).
- Sharelook France (en français)
- 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
Note. The NIKOS search engine is permanently out of commision. Instead
of it use NetScape's search page.
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.
- External Info page at Twente University.
- All4one sends simple queries to AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler and Excite
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- See also:
- Nexor's Mac Software Catalog
- FTP search
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- See also:
- FOUR11 Directory Services
- Search! Personal Pages!- a search engine of personal Web pages from people worldwide.
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- See also:
- Cornell University's Technical Report Library
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- Interesting:
- Conference Announcement Archive (moderated by Juergen Wagner)
- Zippo News Service
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- See also:
- Nexor's Public Services
- RFC index at Nexor
- Internet Draft Index at Nexor
- webreference.com -- The Webmaster's Reference Library
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- Buyer's Index -- Search over 6,500 mail order catalogs and WWW shopping sites
- The Net One -- Directory of business and services
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Other Interesting Things
- See also:
- WIRED Archive
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers
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- Human search - provide no-cost human searching assistance!
- SearchMill.com - live human search experts find things for you on the Internet
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- Presence Web - the domain name search engine
- AMNESI - helps you find Internet server names (DNS names)
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This page was originally inspired by NCSA's
Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index.
Thanks to all who have contributed suggestions!
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