Internet Search Engines: Moravian College Astronomy
Internet Search Engines
Internet Search Engines Multi-Search Engine Tools Newsgroups
If you want to hunt for something in particular on the giant cyber-library known
as the World Wide Web, try one of these search engines. They are very simple
to use, and will send you 'round the world to Internet sites of all kinds!
INTERNET SEARCH ENGINES
Google
A keyword search engine...
Ask.com
Ask as sentence...
WebCrawler:
A keyword search engine. It has a subject index, too.
Excite:
A keyword search engine with a subject index...
Lycos:
Yahoo:
This engine doesn't seem to do as well with keyword
searching; however, Yahoo has a very nifty subject index, organized by categories
in a heirarchial pattern.
MULTI-SEARCH ENGINE TOOLS
Dogpile: A Multi-Engine Search Tool:
Yahoo!, Lycos' A2Z, Excite Guide, Go2.com, WWW Yellow Pages, PlanetSearch,
Thunderstone, What U Seek, Magellan, Lycos, WebCrawler, InfoSeek, AltaVista, Excite & HotBot.
Zoo:
NEWSGROUPS
Google Groups
Gain information from newsgroups
Virtual Software Library's FTP File Finder:
Use this to find those files you've been looking for via FTP! You type in the
filename (or part of it, using wildcards) and it will show you all the FTP sites containing
that file.
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