Effective Searching

Web based search tools

The following links go to sites that will assist you in the gathering of information on the Internet.  Each has its own special abilities.  All you need to have to use these search tools is a web browser and an Internet connection.

 

Metacrawler    http://www.metacrawler.com

 

MetaCrawler differs from other search services in that it does not maintain any local database. Rather, it relies on the databases of various Web-based sources. MetaCrawler sends your queries to several Web search engines, including Lycos, Infoseek, WebCrawler, Excite, AltaVista, 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. Of course, this means that MetaCrawler is slightly slower than other engines, but is more likely to obtain accurate results for your query.

DogPile   http://www.dogpile.com

 

Dogpile Searches:
The Web: Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, Go2.com, WWW Yellow Pages , PlanetSearch, Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot.
Usenet: Hotbot News, Reference.com, Dejanews, Altavista and Dejanews' old Database.
FTP: Filez and FTP Search.(Only the first word in your query will be passed on to FTP Search.)
News Wires: Yahoo News Headlines, Excite News and Infoseek NewsWires.

Savvy Search   http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form

 

SavvySearch is a meta-search tool, designed to simultaneously send a your query to multiple Internet search engines and return the complete set of results. SavvySearch offers the advantage of a single location and common user interface for querying many diverse databases. While SavvySearch provides this convenient interface, you are also encouraged to visit the search engines directly, as each provides a unique and powerful service.

Super Seek    http://w3.superseek.com/superseek/

 

Welcome to 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

Highway 61    http://www.highway61.com/

 

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.

Cosmix Mother Load   http://www.cosmix.com/motherload/insane/

 

The Cosmix Mother Load was originally started as a little page with some decent links. The when we started making a search engine, it ballooned into a searchable database that gets updated every night to add new links and delete dead ones. Now it is a fully expandable directory of directories, with a fast metasearch engine, and a complete metasearch tool. We are always tweeking and adding to the Mother Load so that it will work faster and better.

Yahoo   http://www.yahoo.com

 

Yahoo! is a hierarchical subject-oriented guide for the World Wide Web and Internet. Yahoo! lists sites and categorizes them into appropriate subject categories.

Alta Vista    http://www.altavista.digital.com

 

AltaVista brings the Internet to your fingertips, helping you find the exact piece of information you're looking for -- time after time. You'll find AltaVista's power, scope, speed, and ease of use unmatched and unprecedented, which is why AltaVista is the search engine of choice for millions of Internet users.

Excite   http://www.excite.com

 

Excite's patented ICE search technology gives you access to more than 50 million Web pages, 140,000 pre-selected Web site listings, and thousands of Usenet postings. ICE stands for Intelligent Concept Extraction, which means that when you enter a search query, Excite searches the entire Web for documents containing related concepts, not just the keywords you entered

InfoSeek   http://www.infoseek.com

 

World Wide Web searching at its finest. Just enter your topic of interest. Advanced search features allow you to search for a specific site, URL, title, or links to a page. No Boolean operators needed.

HotBot   http://www.hotbot.com

 

HotBot then searches the full text of the more than 50 million documents in its database, finds all documents that fit your criteria, sorts them according to their relevance, and returns a list of documents in the form of abstracts and hyperlinks.
HotBot's pulldown menus and buttons let you modify or refine your search. Use these tools to narrow your search by placing more conditions on the query. The more you tell HotBot about what you're looking for, the more accurate your results will be.

WebCrawler    http://www.webcrawler.com

 

WebCrawler's service is all about search and discovery. WebCrawler is a powerful search service that helps you find personally relevant information in the sea of Web content. In addition, our WebCrawler Guide reviews and our growing collection of WebCrawler Services partners make WebCrawler the place to go when you're seeking inspiration or just want to see what's out there. WebCrawler is designed to be simple and easy to use. But don't let our whimsical user interface fool you. Behind that cute little surfing spider lies one of the most powerful search technologies on the net. When you use WebCrawler, you are actually searching an index of the Web rather than the Web itself

JumpCity    http://www.jumpcity.com/search-page.html

 

A search engine for reviewed world wide web sites.

OpenText    http://index.opentext.net

 

The Open Text Index is an Internet search engine. It's a way of finding specific information - words or phrases - on the World Wide Web. You type a word, or a group of words, or a phrase of any length, into a search form. The Open Text Index then searches for occurrences of your search terms, and shows you a list of pages that include them. It also lets you link to those pages.

Whats New Too   http://newtoo.manifest.com/search.html

 

What's New Too's! advanced search engine finds the site that you're looking for within our database.

Lycos   http://www.lycos.com

 

The heart of the Lycos service is the search engine - the most complete catalog of website addresses available today.

Magellan   http://www.mckinley.com

 

Magellan's technology offers a unique way to search the Web: by concept. Like most search engines, we've programmed our search engine to look for documents containing the exact words you entered into the query box. But Magellan goes further and looks for ideas closely linked to the words in your query. This feature broadens your search.

Galaxy   http://www.einet.net

 

The Galaxy directory links to thousands of sites around the Internet. Galaxy makes it possible to search these sites in various ways to help you find the information you're looking for.

 

PC Based Search Tools

These search tools will assist you in finding information on the Internet, but are programs that reside on your local computer and go out on the Internet and find the information that you request.  After the program finishes its search, it will display the results.

 

ForeFront's WebSeeker    http://www.ffg.com/seeker/

 

Pinpoint exactly what you're looking for on the Internet with WebSeeker. Now you can harness the strength of the Internet's most popular engines, from Alta Vista to Yahoo!, with a single search. WebSeeker runs your information query through more than 100 Internet search engines simultaneously, delivering the most comprehensive search report available. Quickly refine your results until you find exactly what you want.

Quarterdeck's WebCompass   http://www.qdeck.com/qdeck/products/webcompass/

 

WebCompass 2.0 accesses over 35 search resources. If you want to search more, just add additional search resources. You can even add resources to search Intranets. But WebCompass doesn't just search the Web. Because it searches via so many engines, it access Usenet, FTP, and gopher sites as well - the whole Internet!

Symantec's Internet FastFind   http://www.symantec.com/iff/

 

Find what you are really looking for on the Internet - fast! Use all the top search engines at once! Automatic alerts to Web site changes! Finding what you want on the Internet just got a whole lot easier. And faster. Internet FastFind does all the work for you. Whether you're already a savvy Internet user, or just getting started, you'll enjoy using Internet FastFind's intuitive, simple-to-use interface. There's no better way to find what you're looking for on the Internet.

Data Grabber    http://www.wildcowpublishing.com/datagrab.html

 

Data Grabber now targets 300+ public databases on the WWW direct from your desktop. Selection of a database is simplified by first selecting a catagory ... then targeting one of the databases which appear.

Internet EZ Search Home Page    http://www.americansys.com/

 

Makes searching the internet fast and easy! Internet EZ Search provides one common window that allows you to talk with all the major search engines at once. This saves you vast amounts of time when you are searching the Internet for information. Currently you probably bounce from Yahoo, to Infoseek, to AltaVista and so on to get the information you need. No more bouncing! Just check off the engines you need and press Search. Internet EZ Search takes care of talking to ALL of the search engines for you and all at the same time. You will be amazed at its speed. Currently works with 49 search engines.

Copernic   http://www.copernic.com/

 

Find what you want easier and faster with Copernic! Copernic is an intelligent agent that takes charge of your net-searches by consulting simultaneously the most important search engines of the Web. It features an history of your searches, making sure that the precious information found on the Internet is always classified and handy. This software also lets you update, modify and refine your searches by using a flexible and user-friendly interface which has the touch and feel of most common e-mail applications.

Solway's Freeware Internet Search   http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html

 

A small and fast FREEWARE program enabling you to search up to FOUR search engines simultaneously and display the results on one screen (provided that your web browser can handle frames). Remembers your last thirty search strings. Short-cut feature to get to a start html page.

CyberSense Personal Search   http://www.cybersense.com/search/

 

A search engine "control center" that works with your web browser to help you search the Internet more quickly and effectively. The "Quick Search" feature gives you the ability to easily send your query to any of nine popular search engines. The innovative Search Bar adds a search engine control bar to the top of your browser window, allowing you to see your query and the results at the same time. Advanced JavaScript and Cookie technology remembers your preferences and lets you customize the system to your liking.

CyBot    http://www.theartmachine.com/CyBot.htm

 

Doing some research? Need more and better information on a subject? CyBot as your personal Web-Crawler will search for what you need and, bring it back 1,000 times faster than if you were to browse on your own. With CyBot's Artificial Intelligence (AI) capabilities you get the results you seek quickly and thoroughly.

EchoSearch    http://www.iconovex.com/ECHO/ECHOS.HTM

 

A metasearch engine. Searches the Web using multiple search engines, downloads the hits, and processes them to present indexes and abstracts of the downloaded documents.

ezSearch    http://www.shareit.com/programs/100158.htm

 

ezSearch is an Internet search utility to save your time and to cut your phone bills. Use to simultaneously search multiple search engines, like Altavista, Excite, Infoseek, Deja News, etc. The advantage of using ezSearch is twofold. First, you only need to type the keyword one time and, then, ezSearch takes care of the rest, including finding the fastest engine(s) and even pulls the result to your browsers. Second, ezSearch rules out those advertising pictures and animation from the result pages given by search engines. Therefore, you will not spend your time in waiting busy search engines. Neither download irrelevant pictures.

NetSearch    http://www.protags.com/win32/NetSearch/

The ultimate search. Searches pages that have the ability to be searched. NetSearch is programmable. Yes you can easily program in your own sites to search. If there is a site you would like to search send us the name and will place the search strings on the strings page. NetSearch saves your searches on a results page. The program has been improved to allow all Hyperlinks on the searched pages to now connect. Versions before 3.0 did not have this feature. NetSearch remembers your settings including your last five search keywords, your favorite results directory, and the sites you last searched. NetSearch is ready to use. The 9 programmable sites are already set up with some of our favorite sites