Internet Search Tools

Multiple Resource Types

• The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus Associates, Inc.)
  Subject-oriented research guides (formerly The Michigan Clearinghouse)
• Internet Resources Meta-Index (National Center for Supercomputing Applications)
  Resource directories and indices available on the Internet
• Internet Sleuth (Internet Business Connection ™)
  Choose from over 1500 searchable databases.
• Yanoff's Internet Services List, Scott Yanoff

World Wide Web by Subject or Keyword

• ALIWEB: A resource discovery system for the WWW (NEXOR, Ltd.)
• The Argus Clearinghouse (Argus Associates, Inc.)
• CUI W3 Catalog (Centre Universitaire d'Informatique)
• Cyber Online (Thomas Reuters)
• CyberStacks: WWW Resources Arranged by Library of Congress Classification Scheme, Gerry McKiernan (Iowa State)
• Excite (Excite, Inc.)
• Highway 61 (Virtual Mirror)
• HotBot: Powered by Inktomi™ (Hotwired Network)
• Go.com® (Go.com)
• Lycos: The Catalog of the Internet (Lycos™, Inc.)
• Magellan (The McKinley Group)
• MetaCrawler, Eric Selberg and Oren Etzioni
• MotherLoad (Cosmix Web Design)
• Net2 Library (Global Commerce Link)
• SEARCH.COM (CNET Inc.)
• GoForIt Tsunami Russell Tewksbury, MarketWorks Corp.
• WebCrawler (America Online)
• Global Network Navigator (Global Network Navigator, Inc.)
• Yahoo! (Yahoo Corporation)

World Wide Web Sites by Geographic Location

• The Virtual Tourist: Access WWW Servers by Map

Directories of E-mail Addresses

• White Pages Services (Yahoo Corporation)
• Four11: The Internet White Pages (Four11 Corporation)
• Yahoo! People Search (Yahoo Corporation)

Gopher, HYTELNET, and Telnet Servers

• HYTELNET: Hypertext Access to Telnet Sites, Peter Scott (Northern Lights Internet Solutions)
• HYTELNET: Gopher-Like Menu (Spencer W. Hunter)

Listservs, Usenet, and Discussion Groups

• Excite (Architext Software)
  Searches Usenet in addition to WWW
• TOPICA, (Email Marketing)
  Tools for mailing lists and Usenet news groups.
• (Web hosting), Webhero

Comparisons and Reviews of Search Tools

• Comparison Among Internet Search Engines, (Hamline University)