Search Tools
 All in One Search
- This allows the user to send a search request to a variety of search engines.
- All 4 One Search
- This site provides a useful metasearch facility.
- Alta Vista from Digital Equipment Corporation
- This site provides very rapid searches from the extensive indexes maintained by the AltaVista spider.
- DogPile
- This is a superb multi-engine search site.
- Google
- Google is one of the newest and most effective search engines available. It uses a unique algorithm that lists the "most important" sites first. (Importance is measured by the number of links from other sites, with a
greater weight placed on links from other "important" sites.)
- HotBot
- One of the biggest indexes. A nice feature is the ability to search only web pages that have changed in a user specified time period. This provides a useful method of finding recent links on a topic.
- InfoSeek
- This site provides an extensive directory of links in a variety of categories.
- Librarians' Index to the Internet
- This is a hand indexed site provided by Carole Leita from Berkeley.
- Lycos
- Another index containing a good search engine.
- MetaCrawler
- Another spider...
- Open Text
- Another directory and search engine service.
- Starting Point
- Etc...
- Webcrawler Select
- This submits search data to a variety of search engines.
- WWWomen
- A search site that bills itself as "the premier search directory for women online."
- Yahoo
- One of the first, and still one of the most extensive, internet directories.
Please send any comments, suggestions, or questions to John Kane at kane@oswego.edu.
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