Searching The World!

Test your knowledge using these sites:

1. Search Engines:
   
   • Yahoo (http://www.yahoo.com)
     
   • Excite (http://www.excite.com)
     
   • Alta Vista (http://www.excite.com
     
   • Hot Bot (http://www.hotbot.com)
     
   • Infoseek (http://www.infoseek.com)
     
   • Magellan (http://www.mckinley.com)
     
   • Lycos (http://www.lycos.com)
     
   • Webcrawler (http://www.webcrawler.com)

2. Integrated Search:
   
   • Metacrawler (http://metacrawler.cs.washington.edu)
     
   • Starting Point (http://www.stpt.com)
     
   • Open Text (http://index.opentext.net)
     
   • Savvy Search (http://guaraldi.cs.colostate.edu)
     
   • c|net (http://www.search.com)

3. Specialized Search:
   
   • Electric Library ( http://www.elibrary.com)
     
   • EnviroLink (http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html)
     
   • Environmental Organizations Web Directory (http://www.webdirectory.com)

Searching The World!
Prepared by Dan Jacobs
Maryland Sea Grant

Internet and Web Page Construction - April 11, 1997