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

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