Searching The World: Search Engines

Search Engines
Tools that search the entire Web for a requested word or string of words. There are also integrated and specialized search engines.
Yahoo!	http://www.yahoo.com/
This pioneering Web guide, updated daily, is now integrated with AltaVista's search engine. A search of Yahoo! categories returns global Web search results as well. Includes My Yahoo!, a personalized information service.
AltaVista	http://altavista.digital.com/
Search service from Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) that indexes more than 8 billion words from 30 million Web pages and 3 million articles from 14,000 Usenet newsgroups. The system is powered by DEC's Alpha RISC processor.
Excite	http://www.excite.com/
Excite uses "concept-based" search technology, called Excite Spider, to summarize information on 50 million Web pages. Users can search the whole Web or sites reviewed by Excite.
HotBot	http://www.hotbot.com/
A searchable index of 54 million documents updated weekly. Created by HotWired and Inktomi, HotBot is the first site to use multimachine parallel computing for Internet searching.
Infoseek	http://guide.infoseek.com/
Users can search the Web or Usenet newsgroups for words and phrases. Includes Infoseek Personal, a free personalized news clipping service.
Lycos	http://www.lycos.com/
Comprehensive Internet catalog that includes both subject and word searches. Includes a new email address search and Road Map, a service to give directions or a map. Search for text, graphics, sounds, and video.
Magellan	http://www.mckinley.com/
Search engine and online guide to the Web with an extensive listing of rated and reviewed sites.
WebCrawler	http://www.webcrawler.com/
A "natural language" search engine with an index that is updated daily. Includes WebCrawler Select site reviews.

Searching The World!
Prepared by Dan Jacobs
Maryland Sea Grant

Internet and Web Page Construction - April 11, 1997