INTERNET
SEARCH
If you're trying to find a particular site or document on the Internet or
just looking for a resource list on a particular subject, you can use one
of the many available on-line search engines. These engines allow you to
search for information in many different ways - some search titles or
headers of documents, others search the documents themselves, and still
others search other indexes or directories.
To give you a better idea of how these engines work, we've indicated the
results of a sample search to provide some guidance about how effective
each might be for your particular needs.
SEARCH
ENGINES
- THE
LYCOS HOME PAGE:
HUNTING WWW INFORMATION
- This search engine, served by Carnegie Mellon University, will
allow you to search on document titles and content. Their June-November,
1994 database contains 862,858 unique documents.
The Lycos index is built by a Web crawler that can bring in 5,000
documents per day. The index searches document title, headings,
links, and keywords it locates in these documents.
-
WEBCRAWLER
SEARCHING
- This engine allows search by document title and content.
It is part of the WebCrawler project, managed by Brian Pinkerton at the
University of Washington, which collects documents from the Web.
SEARCH
ENGINE
SEARCH
If you still haven't found what you're looking for and you'd like to try out
other available search engines, check out these other lists
of search engines:
- W3
SEARCH
ENGINES
- This one is published by the University of Geneva.
-
CUSI
- Nexor also offers this search tool which can help
you find software indexes, people indexes, dictionaries, and other
things.