Integrated Search Engines

Query many search engines for a requested word or string of words. There are also specialized search sites.

c|net
http://www.search.com/
A collection of tools designed to find all kinds of information . . .f rom web sites to phone numbers to movies to stock quotes, and all points between.
Open Text
http://www.opentext.com/
A searchable Internet index that includes more than 21 billion words and phrases. Created using Open Text indexing and text retrieval technology.

SavvySearch
http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu:2000/form
SavvySearch is a meta-search tool, designed to simultaneously send a your query to multiple Internet search engines and return the complete set of results. This site is frequently overloaded.

MetaCrawler
http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu/index.html
A free search service that differs from other services in that it doesn't maintain any internal database. Rather, it relies on the databases of Open Text, Lycos, and others.

Starting Point
http://www.stpt.com/
Use this site's MetaSearch technology to perform a metasearch on a collection of 16 popular Web search engines and indexes.


Searching The World!
Prepared by Dan Jacobs
Maryland Sea Grant

[National Aquaculture Extension Conference]
Internet and Web Page Construction - April 11, 1997