Lycos
InfoSeek
WebCrawler
EINet Galaxy
The Global Network Navigator (GNN)
Nexor Public Services
CUI W3 Catalog
The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
Infomine
Internet Town Hall
InterNIC Directory & Database Services
JumpStation
List of American Universities
Mother-of-all-BBS
Netsurfer Digest
Open Market's Commercial Sites Index
Special Internet Connections
University of North Carolina Heliocentric Information Map
Virtual Town
World Wide Web Worm
World Wide Yellow Pages
WWW Frequently Asked Questions
The WWW Virtual Library
Archie
Veronica
Jughead
Spry-CompuServe Search Wizard
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
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A Brief Description of the Search Tools
Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
Here you'll find Web links arranged mainly in educational categories, such as the humanities, social sciences, and science.
CUI W3 Catalog
The CUI W3 is a useful searchable interface to several manually maintained Internet catalogs. They come courtesy of the University of Geneva.
EINet Galaxy
EINet Galaxy is one of the most exhaustive directories of Internet resources. It's fully searchable, too.
The Global Network Navigator (GNN)
O'Reilly and Associates provides access to the Whole Internet Catalog, an on-line marketplace, and several special-interest newsletters
The Harvest Information Discovery and Access System
At this search site,you can build brokers that assist in conducting high-powered searches for Internet info.It's a very ambitious scheme, and it works.
Infomine
This home page from the University of California, Riverside, provides a good collection of links to federal government sites.
InfoSeek
InfoSeek is a subscription search tool ($9.95 per month) that yields highly accurate results to plain English queries. The fee is quite reasonable in the light of the highly focused search results.
Internet Town Hall
The Town Hall is a service of the Internet Multicasting Service. It's a good jumping-off point to general resources all around the Web.
InterNIC Directory & Database Services
This directory contains huge searchable databases of Internet resources, provided by AT&T, General Atomics, and Network Solutions.
JumpStation
JumpStation uses "robots" to go out and compile Web indexes by subject, title, and document header. Be warned: The search results vary widely in focus.
List of American Universities
This home page is nothing more than a list of links to more than 150 college and university home universities.html pages. Check out your alma mater, or take a look at your prospective institution of higher education.
Lycos
Lycos is Carnegie-Mellon's well-known Internet search tool. It's massive and sometimes painfully overburdened, even though several servers are on-line.
Mother-of-all-BBS
Here's another subject-oriented index of Web pages. This one solicits information summary.html about new sites from users.
Netsurfer Digest
The Digest is a free weekly magazine focusing on Web news. You have to subscribe, and when you do, you request delivery either as straight text or in a linked format. You'll also get a promotional mailing once a week.
Nexor Public Services
Here's another popular search tool, with powerful directories that perform keyword searches across the Web.
Open Market's Commercial Sites Index
Here's a useful list of more than 2,500 links to commercial, government, and nonprofit home pages.
Special Internet Connections
Scott Yanoff maintains this huge list of links, which is organized into 40 main categories.
University of North Carolina Heliocentric Information Map
Take a look at this interesting home page, notable mainly for its circular menu, which places the Chapel Hill campus at the center of the information universe.
Virtual Town
This Web index is presented as a colorful aerial view of a town. Click on the place you want to go.Note that it's currently under "heavy construction.
"WebCrawler
The WebCrawler contains 350,000 Web documents indexed for keyword searches. It's incredibly comprehensive and surprisingly fast.
World Wide Web Worm
The Worm is an automated search system that scans the Web at your request and creates a personal searchable catalog.
World Wide Yellow Pages
Just what you'd expect: lists of all the businesses on the Web, with daily updates and links to search tools.
WWW Frequently Asked Questions
Head here to read basic questions and answers about the Web. It's updated frequently with the latest developments.
The WWW Virtual Library
Another good place to start exploring if you have a particular topic in mind, the Virtual Library includes topical and geographical indexes to Web pages.
Yahoo
Yahoo is a massive, essential index of Web pages organized into categories. It also includes a search tool. Watch out: It's popular and crowded.
Archie
FTP Search find FTP sites using ArchiePlex if you are looking for downloads this is the place to start.
Veronica
Gopher Search using Veronica search Gopher servers for information documents,WWW sites, Libraries, Newsgroups and more ...
Jughead
Gopher Search using Jughead search Gopher servers for information, documents.
Spry-CompuServe Search Wizard
The Spry-CompuServe Search Wizard search the World Wide Web by Key Word
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