HTML Goodies builder.com from c/net
Lynx users should use this
radio button version
of CUSI.
Below is a list of the types of search engines by topic. Within each category there are several engines to choose from. Some indexes are more extensive than others. You'll just have to try them to see what works best for you. If there is a search engines that is not here let us know.
These are some manual indexes of WWW-based information useful for
finding well-known services.
The CUI W3 Catalog was a fairly
comprehensive semi-automated high-quality global index, although this service has
now been removed. Contact Oscar Nierstrasz
for more information.
Our ALIWEB is a semi-distributed/automated
special global index for the Web.
The popular Yahoo features a hierarchically organised
subject tree.
The GNA Meta-Library is becoming more
out of date as it is maintained manually, but has got non-WWW refernces also.
CityScape's Global On-Line Directory is one of any
claiming to be the "the ultimate Internet reference" soon...
DA-CLOD is a database where anybody
can add URLs. WARNING - It appears the service is no longer available
The UK Index is a manually maintained
index of resources in the UK
Alta Vista has access to 8 billion words in 16
million web pages. It also has an index of 13,000 news groups updated in real-time.
The Spectre Searcher at Santa Cruz,
California is "a powerful and quick simple search engine with a database of
thousands of indexed Web and Gopherspace pages and areas".
There is no single good way for finding people on the
internet. The
NetFind Gopher uses a number of different sources
to locate people. This
UFN Search will find people in the X.500 directory.
You can query the
Internet domains database to look for organisations on the net.
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