Search Materials

"Best Sites" Collections

• Best Links, Popular Links 
• Best of the Web 
• Bookmark USA 
• E-Z SURF Guide 
• Essential Links 
• FreeChannel.net 
• Green Eggs Report The Green Eggs report is a collection of URL's that were spotted by the Rumor Database System. Rumor collects URL's from the Usenet Spool as it goes by.
• JumpCity 
• NEDSITE Search Center 
• Top of the Web, The 
• Web 1000 
• What's Hot and Cool on the Web 

Listserv Search Engines

• CataList, the official catalog of LISTSERV lists 
• Liszt, the mailing list directory 
• TILE.NET/LISTS - The List of all Listservs 

Search Engine Collections and Meta-search

• 37 Search Engines Collection of 37 search engines.
• All Search Engines with one click 
• All-in-One Search Over 400 of the Internet's best search engines, databases, indexes, and directories in a single site.
• Beaucoup Search Engines Beaucoup, online since 1996, features more than 1400 free information search engines and another 1000 or more commercial and employment oriented searchers.
• BIG Search Engine Index The BIG Search Engine Index is one of the largest search engine indices on the net. Also incorporating JSearch, a feature to allow you to search many search engines from just one form.
• Complete Internet Search Engine Index 
• Cyber 411 - Search Engine Index 
• Direct Search - Search Engine List 
• Dogpile, a multi-engine search tool 
• Dr. Webster's Big Page of Search Engines 
• GoSearch 
• HowToWeb 
• InferenceFind InferenceFind is the first and only search tool that calls out in parallel all the best search engines on the internet, merges the results, removes redundancies, and clusters the results into neat understandable groupings. Inference Find queries the best 6 search engines--WebCrawler, Yahoo, Lycos, Alta Vista, InfoSeek, and Excite--on the web, but can be configured to call any search engine.
• InfoSearch 
• Internet Research Tools 
• Internet Search Engines 
• Internet Search Engines and Multi-search Services 
• Internet Sleuth 
• Mallpark's 50 mega malls There are lots of Search pages on the web. Mallpark has a very handysearch page with over 50 Search Engines you can use directly from thislocation! Definitely a handy search page with several search enginesyou might not have used in the past.
• MetaFind 
• Metaplus Metaplus is a meta-list of the best Internet directories -plus direct links to some of the most essential sites. This site hassome great links to useful information.
• Metasearch 
• Needle in a CyberStack - the InfoFinder 
• ProFusion 
• Re:Search Centre - Internet Search Resource, The 
• Rice University Internet Navigation Directory 
• Sarnia Online Most people think that "Searching the internet" should be easy... Itcan be easy or it can be very hard if you don't have a handle on somespecific search strategies. Here is a place that has lots ofinformation about HOW to search the internet.
• Search Engine Colossus A Directory of Search Engines with 895 Listings.
• Search Engines Worldwide 
• Searching the Internet 
• SearchPower SearchPower is the largest directory of Internet Search Engineswith over 2,000 direct links to the Internet's most popular andspecialty search resources. Searchpower helps users locate thebest search engines for their search needs which resultsin faster and more accurate search results.
• Seeko! 
• SuperSearch 
• UC Berkeley Library Web Search the Internet 
• UK Online User Group: Internet Searching The UK Online User Group has put together a great Internet Searchresource. Topics covered on the UK Internet Search page include:Search Tools - a guide to search engines, Sink or Swim: InternetSearch Tools and Techniques, Web Search Tool features, How to Choosea Search Engine, Search Engine Watch, Netskills Searching Resources,Articles comparing search tools, Your Complete Guide to Searchingthe Net from PC Magazine, The Right Search Engine and Choosinga Web Search Service.
• Ultimate Internet Search Index 
• Ultimate Search Page 
• University of Miami Library Internet Search Engines and Finding Tools 
• Virtual Newest Search Engines 
• W3 Search Engines 
• Web Index Better than a search engine. It's a comprehensive index to the WWW.
• Webplaces Internet Search Guide 

Search Engines and Directories

• Alaska & Canada's Search Engine 
• AltaVista 
• c|net's SEARCH.COM 
• Deja News "Deja News the only Web site where you can read, search, participate in and subscribe to more than 80,000 discussion forums, including Usenet newsgroups."
• EuroSeek 
• Excite 
• FindLink.com Search Engine 
• Galaxy 
• Go2Net 
• HotBot 
• Infohiway Search Engine 
• Infoseek 
• InfoSpace.com 
• Linkcentre 
• LookSmart 
• Lycos 
• Magellan 
• Mining Company, The 
• Needle in a CyberStack If you are looking for something - just about anything on theinternet - This site is a good place to start looking. Needle in aCyberStack - the InfoFinder (an EXCELLENT site).
• NetGuide 
• Northern Light Search 
• PlanetSearch 
• PowerSearch.com Internet Search and Directory 
• QuestFinder: Searching the Web Search Engines Web Directories 
• Savvy Search 
• Search Beat, The The Search Beat is your One-Stop Web Directory... "You may besaying... Why another web directory? Well, we believe we aredifferent! While the search engines are wonderful and we makeextensive use of them, we saw the need to supplement them with aOne-Stop web browsing approach."
• SiteShack 
• Snap 
• Suite101.com Suite 101 takes a different approach to web directories. Suite 101 isa web guide designed to help you find the best sites on the web asquickly as possible. It is staffed by over 220 dedicated andpassionate editors who each specialize in one specific area of interest.
• Thunderstone 
• UK Plus 
• WebCrawler 
• WebSitez - Search engine for domain name addresses! 
• Writers Alliance, Inc., The John Makulowich's *truly* awsome list is not new, but with all of theother great sites - this one is sometimes forgotten... "the list wasstarted quite a few years ago to highlight significant contributionsto the development of the World Wide Web... resources (data,information, applications, clients, et al.) that are unique,imaginative, valuable, research provoking and more."
• Yahoo Internet Life 
• Yahoo! 

Search Resources from Libraries

• Alpha Search at The Hekman Library at Calvin College The primary purpose of AlphaSearch is to access the finest Internet "gateway" sites. The authors of these "gateway" sites have spent significant time gathering into one place all relevant sites related to a discipline, subject, or idea. You have instant access to hundreds of sites by entering just one gateway site. You reap what others have sown and nurtured!
• Argus Clearing House The Argus Clearinghouse provides a central access point for value-added topical guides which identify, describe, and evaluate Internet-based information resources.
• Internet Public Library at University of Michigan, The 
• Library of Congress Internet Search Tool 
• Nueva Library Research Goal 
• UC Berkeley Library Internet Guides 
• UC Berkeley Library Virtual Information Center 
• UC Berkeley SunSITE LIBWEB 

Specialized Search Sites

• AltaVista Photo and Media Finder  
• AnyWho: Find Telephone Number, Email, Home Page URL, FAX, Toll Free Number, and Address 
• Arriba Vista Image Searcher 
• Arthur (ART media and text HUb and Retrieval System) Arthur is an academic image database for the visual arts. Arthur searches 300 Web sites containing 30,000 images and associated text.
• Company Name Search - UK Company Search & Resource Center 
• Cyberonline - your one stop shopping mall 
• Education World Search Engine 
• Find A Friend 
• First Worldwide Internet Pages - Informative Business, Trade Site 
• GNIS United States and Territories Data Base 
• Infomine at UC Riverside 
• Internet Address Finder - Email Directory 
• Lycos Image Gallery 
• Martindale's 'The Reference Desk' - CALCULATORS ON-LINE CENTER 
• Measure 4 Measure "A collection of sites that estimate, calculate, evaluate and translate, etc."
• Music, Jazz, Blues, Rock & Roll and More! 
• Scour.Net Search for audio, video, and images on the Internet.
• Scour.Net Internet Media Guide 
• Special Search Engine A collection of (mainly) special search sngines is more than just aplace with links to search engines... Also included are directories,databases and subject guides. However, the main focus isdiscipline-specific, subject-specific and topic-specific searchengines and collections of national, regional and local searchengines.
• Switchboard: The Internet Directory - YellowPages - WhitePages - PhoneBook 
• Usenet Addresses Service (MIT) 
• WhoWhere?! 
• World Wide E-mail addressess 
• WORLDPAGES Find Anything. Anyone. Anywhere. 
• Worldwide Directory Service 
• Yahoo! People Search 

WWW Search Help Sites

• "Effective Use of Search Engines" 
• All I Know About Specific Search Engines 
• Info Search: Where's the Information? 
• Internet Tools for the Advanced Searcher Internet Tools for the Advanced Searcher discusses search engines with advanced features, virtual library gateways, intelligent agents, caching, plug-ins, etc.
• Links to Learning and Searching 
• Nueva Library Search Help 
• Search Engine Resources 
• Search Engine Showdown 
• Search Engine Watch 
• Search Engines for the World Wide Web - Comparative Study 
• Search Helper 
• Search is Over, The 
• Secrets of the Search Engines Forum 
• Spider's Apprentice--Help on Searching the Web 
• Web Search Strategies 
• Windweaver's Search Guide