G.E.Boyd's Search Engine Short List (or how I find all the answers!)
Search Engines (There are 22 subtopics)
- Yahoo and Yahoo - Advanced and Yahoo Mail and Yahoo Maps
- AltaVista (GUI) and AltaVista - Advanced (GUI) and AltaVista Text and AltaVista - Advanced Text and AltaVista BabelFish translation (GUI) Search the web or Usenet in various languages; constrained searches
- WebCrawler Titles and summaries by revelance with pointers to sources
- Lycos and Lycos Advanced Search Golden Oldie! Tools: Help Chat Clubs Boards Email Lycos Radio FTP Search Alerts Build: Home Pages My Lycos Find: Stocks News Weather MP3 Pictures Yellow Pages Cities People Road Maps Buy: Books Music
- Excite WWW results, directory, news, photos, yellow and white pages; Zoom in on words
- Google and Google Advanced Search and Google US Goverment and Google Linux and Google (was DejaNews) Search Newsgroups and Google (was DejaNews) Usenet Advanced Search Based upon links to a page Googlism What Google thinks of you! Froogle easy comparison shopping
- Teoma and Teoma Advanced Google-like based upon links to a page plus topical directories
- Daypop Latest news and current events Search 6000 news sites
- alltheweb (was Fast Search) and alltheweb Advanced and alltheweb FTP search
- HotBot (GUI) and HotBot (Text) and HotBot Advanced Search Literary documents, constrained searches
- Northerlight A search engine for professional web users.
- Vivisimo New from Carnegie-Mellon University, clusters results
- WiseNut From the maker of MySimon Uses revelancy ranking
- SearchEdu.com Over 20 million university and education pages indexed and ranked in order of popularity
- MetaCrawler (was go2net and MetaFind) and MetaCrawler Advanced Multithreaded - AltaVista, DirectHit, Excite, FindWhat, Google, Overture (was GoTo), Kanoodle, LookSmart, Lycos, Sprinks, Thunderstone, Webcrawler and Infoseek.
- CNET Search (was SavvySearch) Multithreaded - Search in various languages
- Go Search (was InfoSeek) Disney's unified portal boasts all the regular portal features
- DogPile Multithreaded - Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, World Wide Web Worm, WWW Yellow Pages , What U Seek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Go, OpenText, AltaVista, Excite and HotBot.
- First Gov Your first click to the US Government
- Zworks Metasearch engine
- Mamma The mother of all search engines Good for news, images, video and audio.
- Beaucoup Search 2000+ search engines
Shareware, Freeware (There are 13 subtopics)
- C|Net Shareware and C|Net Download includes old WinFiles.com
- Freshmeat (was Dave Central Windows) now UNIX software
- Walnut Creek CDROM bought by WindRiver 04Apr01, bought by BSD 20Mar00
- SimtelNet new owner as of 16Jan01
- Tucows Shareware (World) and Tucows Shareware (CA)
- Jumbo Shareware
- Slovak Antivirus Center
- CWSApp Stroud Shareware
- ZD Net Software Library
- Evolt.org browser archive
- geeks (was FTP find) FTP search engine
- PC Drivers find a device driver
- List of Lists find shareware, tools, fixes, registry hacks, etc. neat site
Find a Mailing List or Newsgroup (There are 12 subtopics)
- Listserv Reference CataList, the catalog of LISTSERV lists
- Topica (was Liszt) Searchable Directory of e-mail Mailing Lists
- Yahoo Groups (was eGroups was Onelist) Searchable Directory of e-mail Mailing Lists
- Mailbase Mailing Lists Search for a Mailbase mailing list
- Tile Net Mailing Lists, Newsgroups, FTP sites, vendors
- PAML search Stephanie de Silva's list (Publicly Accessible Mailing Lists)
- List tool search Search for mailing lists
- Directory of Scholarly and Professional E-Conferences Diane Kovac's list
- ARL Directory Directory of E-Journals, Newsletters, and Academic Discussion Lists
- Internet Mailing Lists Guides and Resources IFLA - International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
- K-12: E-Mail Discussion Lists and Electronic Journals on-line educational resources around the world
- The Mail Archive Many archived mailing lists starting 1998
Directories (telephone, e-mail, college) (There are 18 subtopics)
- WhoWhere? now owned by Lycos
- InfoSpace
- MSN Email Search (was Accumail InfoSpace)
- SuperPages - People and SuperPages - Business Verizon
- Switchboard find a person and Switchboard find e-mail address
- Bigfoot white pages, e-mail
- World Email Directory
- Internet Address Finder
- Usenet address finder
- Yahoo People Search was Four11
- Canada 411 White Pages
- Telephone Directories on the Web
- BigYellow
- First Worldwide Yellow Pages
- Yellow Pages
- College E-mail Addresses
- Christina DeMello's 1996 College/University list
- SBA Guide to Computer Vendors Hardware, software, and VAR lookup
Dictionaries (There are 19 subtopics)
- Atlapedia Online full color physical and political maps as well as key facts and statistics on countries of the world
- Acronym Finder
- Bartleby and Dictionary of Phrase and Fable Bartleby.com publishes thousands of free online classics of literature, nonfiction and reference
- CIA World Fact Book
- Britannica Search
- Webster's Dictionary
- World Wide Words English words and phrases; what they mean, where they came from, how they have evolved, and the ways in which people sometimes misuse them
- Connected: An Internet Encyclopedia Freesoft organization, DNS course, RFCs in HTML, routing, etc.
- FOLDOC On-Line Dictionary Of Computing
- InfoPlease almanac, dictionary, encyclopedia, atlas
- TechWeb Technology Encyclopedia
- NetLingo Vocabulary of the Internet and WWW
- Netdictionary Alphabetic Search
- Probert Encyclopaedia
- Geek Technical Glossary
- Whatis Internet Glossary Search
- OneLook Dictionaries Index to other dictionaries
- PC Webopedia Online encylopedia and search engine
- yourDictionary.com specialty dictionaries (including law, medicine, finance), grammar references
Usenet FAQs and RFCs (There are 4 subtopics)
- Internet FAQ Archives Usenet FAQs and RFCs
- Bookcase.com FAQ Library Usenet FAQs as of 2000
- MIT Faq Archive Master FTP archive
- Utrecht FAQ Server Usenet News.Answers FAQs
Internet Tools (There are 19 subtopics)
- IAHC Internet Ad Hoc Committee (defunct as of May 1, 1997)
- IANA Internet Assigned Numbers Authority
- IETF Internet Engineering Task Force
- ISOC Internet Society
- ISC Internet Software Consortium -- BIND, DHCP, INN
- IEN Search Internet Engineering Notes
- Whois.Net Domain Based Research Services
- Look up IP by class not maintained since 2001
- Network Solutions Whois Search Original US domain registrar
- InterNIC Whois Search now maintained by ICANN
- ARIN Whois Search American Registry for Internet Numbers
- APNIC Whois Search Asia Pacific Network Internet Center
- RIPE Whois Search Reseaux IP Europeens
- .GOV Whois Search US Government Domains
- All Whois Search universal whois server
- SWITCH Whois query 7 whois servers OK by E-mail
- SamSpade Network tools
- Geektools List of traceroute sites, whois, RFCs
- Internet Traffic Report monitors the flow of traffic around the world
Miscellaneous Search (There are 17 subtopics)
- MapQuest maps
- MapOnUs map planner
- TerraServer US aerial imagery
- The Internet Archive Building an Internet Library
- DLL Help Database information about DLLs for MS products
- Everything E-mail Mary Houten Kemp's site: glossary, mailing lists, find e-mail addresses
- Free E-mail web-based, POP, mail forwarding, etc.
- File Extension Search Engine
- FCC ID Search Equipment authorization
- Aliweb resource discovery system for the WWW
- iTools (was Find-It)
- How Stuff Works Marshall Brain's fascinating site on How Stuff Works
- Ted Slater's Search Engines Britannica, Stock Quotes, US Reps, Webster, Weather, Bible, Country/City Info, US City Maps, Church, Shakespeare, Books, Movies, CNN, Lesson Plans, Music, Pilot Info, US Publications, Miles From, People
- The List List of ISPs by area code, country
- thedirectory The List of ISPs and BBBs
- Ask Jeeves Type a question and receive an answer
- Electric Library newspapers, magazines, photographs, maps, encyclopedias
Last Revised: January 27, 2004
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