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Also see our Address Page: search for people's and companies' tel.no., postal or e-mail address

Organizers of Web material, allowing key-word searches:

There are an estimated 800 million pages on the Web. (NYT, 7/8/1999)

Northern Light -- largest coverage, presorts results

Altavista -- full text, newsgroup search, photo finder

HotBot -- large coverage; fast, accurate; part of Lycos

MetaCrawler -- uses AltaVista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler, Yahoo!

Metasearch -- another metasearch engine

Info Seek Net Search -- fast, accurate; good coverage

Yahoo! -- subject directory, accurate, great searching--use options for complex search

Google -- designed to find the most relevant web pages

Lycos -- keywords, busy, but thorough although it covers a small number of pages only

MultiCrawler --

Open Text -- full text, fast, permits ranges

Webcrawler search forms, keywords -- fast, easy to use, but indiscriminate

Dejanews newsgroup search

Excite -- newsgroup search, includes reviews of Web sites

many of these

NewRiders' WWW YellowPages

Other Gopher Servers search titles, search by continent

Magellan/McKinley server verified info., search forms

Sunsite Gopher

Catalogs:

Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides

Galaxy

Uncat: listings not in other catalogs

WWW Virtual Library Subject Catalog

Yellow Pages

Yelloweb Europe (many subjects, languages)

Super-URL's that include many engines and directories:

All-in-One Search Page

SavvySearch

W3 Search Engines

WebSearch

Others:

Archie (for file names), Veronica (for directories & file titles), WAIS (WideAreaInformationServer, for text within files).

Some online dictionaries:

A Web of On-line Dictionaries

One Look Dictionary

THOR+: The Virtual Reference Desk - Dictionaries

The LOGOS Dictionary (UK)