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INDIVIDUAL SEARCH ENGINES
ALTAVISTA
Use Alta Vista when you're looking for a quotation or general information that's not likely to be categorized in search engines like Yahoo. Remember that using quotation marks around a search phrase will yield different results than if you omit the quotation marks. One of the features of Alta Vista is that it allows you to limit your search results to pages published in a particular language. To try this use the language pull-down menu on AltaVista's main home page.
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AHOY!
Use this search engine from the University of Washington to find personal home pages.BELGIUM CYBERSPACE SEARCH ENGINE
INFOSEEK ULTRA
Infoseek Corp. has released a Beta version of its new Ultra search engine. It supports Boolean AND/OR/NOT, phrase, case sensitive, and field searching, and supplies relevance feedback with results. It has indexed over 50 million web pages, and claims to make your web page available in its database immediately on submission. It also claims to be the first real-time index of the Internet (through real-time indexing by its spider technology).INFOSPACE CANADA
This search engine uses the top engines on the Internet to conduct parallel web searches (as opposed to consecutive searches that other engines use). It merges the results, removes redundancies, and clusters the results into neat understandable groupings.INTERNIC WebFinder
Rather than searching for text on web pages like most search engines, the WebFinder searches for web pages associated with organizationsLOOKSMART
Search the Web by category with this search tool from the New Reader's DigestLYCOS
A general search engine that's not as good as Alta Vista, but Lycos ranks your search hits and includes links to recent news items in a variety of categoriesMAPQUEST
An interactive world atlas, searchable by address. Get down to street level in over 250 countries, including Canada or select a continent to view an interactive map.RESEARCH IT!
This site includes dictionaries (English, computing, rhyming and pronunciation), Roget's Thesaurus, a search engine for acronyms, language translators (French, Spanish, Japanese, German and Italian), an engine to conjugate French verbs, a search engine for people (biographical, date of birth, by generation, a search engine for the Bible, Bartlett's Quotations, maps, the 1995 CIA World Fact Book (for different countries and reference maps), area codes, the (toll free) 800 telephone directory from AT&T, US postal codes, shipment tracking (UPS and FedEx), currency exchange rates and email discussion lists.SPIN
A search engine for international funding opportunities.WORLD PAGES
A collection point for telephone directories of the world. Find phone numbers for people, businesses and governments.WHITE PAGES, U.S.A.
Enter an area code and phone number and this search engine will return the name and address associated with that number. This site features several other useful links to telephone directory services.
METASEARCH ENGINES
DOGPILE
Searches the Web: Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, WWW Worm, WWW Yellow Pages, What USeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, OpenText, Alta Vista, Excite and HotBot; Usenet: Hotboot News, ReferEnce.com, Dejanews, Excite News, InfoSeek News, Altavista and Dejanews's old database and more.SAVVY SEARCH
Not as fast as Metacrawler, but if you're willing to wait for 45 seconds and choose the "integrate results" option, this engine removes all duplications from your search resultsYAHOO
Search by indexed categories like education, sports, computers. Try this one when you're looking for information that's broad or topical.
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