Search Utilities

Below are links to popular internet search engines designed to help you locate businesses, people, webpages, newsgroups, usenets, software, etc.

Each one has unique features to help you search for information. Most offer more than one way to locate the information you are seeking. Experiment until you find the one(s) that you are comfortable using.

NOTE: Each utility has it own database, so the results from one utility will not be the same as another.

Main-Stream Search Engines
Utility	Some Features
AltaVista	Fast / Usenet / Term-Groups
Excite	Reviews / Newsgroups / Classified Ads
EINET Galaxy	Professional Information
HotBot	Suffix (.edu) / Persons / Url's
InfoSeek	Phrases / Addresses / Usenet / FAQ
LinkStar	Flexibilty
LookSmart	Tiered Subject Index
Lycos	Close Matches / 40 Hits/Page
Magellan	Site Rating System
NlightN	Multiple Engines / Categories
OpenText	Fields (Title, Header, etc.)
Planet Search	Categories / Etc.
Point Review	Site Ratings / Phrases
WebCrawler	Roulette / Reverse See Who's Searching You
Yahoo	Categories / News Ticker

The following utilities will search multiple databases from a single search input.

Combination and Multi-Engine Tools
Utility	Some Features
Meta-Crawler	Combination Searches
Savvy Search	Multi-Engine Searches
All-In-One	Every Search Imagineable!

The best source for usenet/newsgroup topics.

Usenet Newsgroups (Global Discussion Groups)
Utility	Some Features
Deja News	Searches Postings by Newsgroups or Person

If you are looking for a particular business or person, try one of these.

People & Business Information
Utility	Some Features
411 Information	Look Up E-mail Addresses
Yellow Pages+	Macmillan Computer Encyclopedia
Business	Yellow Pages
People Finder	Excite's People Finder Page
Big Yellow	People, Businesses, and Addresses
GTE	GTE SuperPages
InfoSpace	InfoSpace Business & Government
Lookup USA	Lookup USA Business Directory
Switchboard	Switchboard Business Search
WhoWhere?	WhoWhere? White Pages
WhoWhere?	WhoWhere? Yellow Pages
Wajens	Wajens International Yellow Pages
Zip2	Zip2 Directory

There are a number of ways to improve your searches.

Look for an ADVANCED OPTIONS button on the search page. This will allow you to use the search utilities' best features and strengths.

Some search utilities divide the WWW into categories. This will narrow your search to only those subject areas.

Look for Site Reviews or Weekly-Monthly Highlighted Sites.

Read the information to the left about Boolean Logic Language(Don't be afraid to try it), to help improve your search results by specifying precise multiple search criteria and eliminating unwanted related information.