Beaucoup
"billed as the 'ultimate source of free information', this site has subject
based, annotated lists of links to search engines including health and sciences; includes a
keyword search engine"
DogPile
"a meta-search engine that enables user to customize queries to up to 18 search
engines and specialty search sites; includes links to numerous subject categories developed
by Dogpile"
Metacrawler
"a tool to 'search the search engines'; this site queries many of the
Web's top search engines and retrieves the best search results across the Internet and
organizes them in a uniform format, ranking them by relevance."
Perfusion
"site features 'Intelliseek' web search engine that queries over 800 search
engines and databases; results note search engine source; users can specify which search
engines to include
Pinakes: A Subject Launchpad
"contains links or gateways to fifty plus subject or multi-subject www search engine
sites; includes medicine, biology, psychology and veterinary science"
WebPlaces.com
"a comprehensive category listing of links to general and subject related search
engines; topics range from computing and software to international and
multi-searches"
Internet Search Tools: World Wide Web
AltaVista
"searchable World Wide Web index that ranks the sites in each keyword
search"
Excite
"keyword and subject information retrieval tool that ranks over 100,000 reviewed Web
sites"
Go.com
"keyword and subject directory of the World Wide Web"
Google:
"a search engine that uses a complicated mathematical analysis, calculated on more
than a billion hyperlinks on the web, 'to return high-quality search results' that
allows Google to estimate the quality, or importance, of every web page it
returns"
Hotbot: Search the
Net
"keyword and subject directory of the WWW; highly rated search engine"
INFOMINE:
Scholarly Internet Resources Collection
"sophisticated keyword search index to 20,000+ "academically valuable
resources" including databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards,
listservs, online library card catalogs, articles and directories of researchers; has
"browse" features to author, title, keyword and subject indexes"
"keyword and subject directory of the World Wide Web"
Lycos
"catalog of the Internet with subject and keyword access"
WebCrawler
Searching
"World Wide Web search tool that indexes by content, titles and www address of
sites"
Yahoo!
"searchable, browsable, hierarchical index of the Internet with keyword and/or subject
access"