Take
a look at c|net's new search engine, SEARCH.COM. It is the newest and perhaps most unique
of the great indexes. Gives you several options not found in
other search engines. Use these search engines to
find informational resources.
( type key words in the frame
and click on "search" )
Finding what you want on the Internet can be like trying to find a book in a library with all the catalog cards on the floor or looking for a needle in a haystack. You know it is there, but how can you find it? Thousands of web pages are created each day! Bestcompany Mega-Search Engines permit you to perform keyword searches. There are numerous search engines and they are not alike.
Boolean
Search Techniques:
1. OR increases the range of your
results. So a search for school OR academy OR
dayschool would give you a lot of institutions to choose from.
2. AND uses a second word to further define the
first (school AND Seattle, for example, would
exclude Whittier Christian Schools).
3. NOT excludes a subset of the group that the
first word defines (school NOT public).
"If you can't find what you're looking for using the search engines below, then it either doesn't exist, or you will get distracted with what you find anyway and forget why you were searching in the first place!" --Steve Bishopp
Take
a look at c|net's new search engine, SEARCH.COM. It is the newest and perhaps most unique
of the great indexes. Gives you several options not found in
other search engines.
Engines:
A2Z - a sub-set of Lycos, broken down into categories and apparently limited to "world's favorite Internet resources, providing free access to the most popular home pages, gopher servers and software archives".
AccuFind - a search page that claims to combine the results of almost all of the other available search engines. The search syntax is described as: For boolean operators, use & for "and," | for "or," ^ for "not," and ((nested) parentheses) for hierarchical notation.
Findlaw - the FindLaw Index of Legal Resources.
HotBot - This is the new home of the Inktomi engine from Berkley, now operated in partnership with HotWired. Still at an early stage, it has the potential to be one of the best search engines on the Web.
IBM Infomarket - pay-as-you-play searching of "the most comprehensive collection of commercial information on the Internet ."
Meta-Index for Legal Research - maintained by GSU college of law and modeled on the CUSI interface.
Shareware.com - an extensive searchable database of shareware from c|net.
Multi-Engine Pages:
All-in-One - a series of pages of search engines for just about anything available.
Beaucoup! has nearly 600+ search engines listed. Truly, if you can't find what you are looking for at this site, GIVE UP!
Configurable Unified Search Interface - the Internet Direct-based version of the Nextor multi-engine search interface.
Research It! - a set of well-arranged search forms for everything from acronyms, area codes and currency values through maps and stock market symbols.
Go2|MetaCrawler Searching MetaCrawler sends your queries to several Web search engines, including Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, Alta Vista, and Yahoo. MetaCrawler queries the other search engines, organizes the results into a uniform format, ranks them by relevance, and returns them to the user.
Savvy Search Engine Sends your query to 19 search engines on the Internet and collates the results. Choice of over 15 languages. SavvySearch, an experimental search system, is designed to query multiple internet search engines simultaneously. Use the Search Form to enter your query, indicate whether you would like to search for all or any of the query terms, and indicate the number of results desired from each search engine. When you submit your query, a Search Plan is created wherein the nineteen search engines are ranked and divided into groups. Ranking factors include:
- The text of your query,
- Sources and types of information selected,
- Estimated Internet traffic,
- Anticipated response time of remote search engines, and
- The load on our computer.
Meta Search at Highway 61 is a "meta-search" site. Your search will be sent to a number of Internet search engines and the results will be compiled into a single page.
Currently, your search is submitted to Yahoo, AltaVista, Lycos, Webcrawler, Infoseek and Excite. Two new features have been added to Highway 61! First, your search parameters will now be saved to a "cookie" so next time you stop by your patience level, etc., will already be set to what you used on your last search. Also, you can now choose to have links sent to new windows. You can indicate how many hits you would like per search by choosing "Lots" or "Bury me" "Lots" will return anywhere from about 35 to 75, "Bury me" will return about 60 to 125.
SuperSeek is the Internet's "card catalog". From here you can search the Information SuperLibrary Bookstore, USENET internet news archives and the Internet's most popular search engines, including Deja News, Excite, Inktomi, New Riders World Wide Web Yellow Pages, Lycos, the Magellan, Yahoo, and Infoseek.
Inference FIND Finally! An Internet search tool that calls out in parallel all the best search engines, merges the results, removes redundancies, clusters the hits into neat understandable groupings, and returns it all to you faster than you can say "nothing but net."
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