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SEARCH ENGINES

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Alta Vista (Web search)

Digital Equipment's Web search engine

Search tips: Enter relevant keywords, with phrases in quotation marks (for example, "Alta Vista"). For more details, read Alta Vista's search help.

DogPile - A Multi-Engine Search Tool


Search and then
Wait a maximum of Seconds.

EINet Galaxy

Search for:
Match any search term, or all search terms. Search the Web - for each document: Search all text within
Search title text only, or link text only.

Also search Galaxy Pages Gopher Titles Telnet Resources
Excite

Excite Search: twice the power of the competition.
What:
Where: [Help]
[Advanced Search]
HotBot

< Search terms:

Search the Web for typed above.

Infoseek Ultra

Beta version. Largest and fastest on the Net.

Search the Web for:
   

TIP: To search for phrases, surround the words with quotation marks.
EXAMPLE: baseball "Hall of Fame"

TIP: Plain English queries refers to being able to type
a question such as what are the lyrics to Penny Lane?
and get meaningful results.
Lycos

Lycos is consistently rated highly for the number
and relevancy of the hits it returns

for: Advanced Search

Mamma - The Mother of all Search Engines

 
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MetaCrawler

This highly rated metasearch tool uses one search box to wade through nine other services (Open Text, Lycos, Web Crawler, Infoseek, Yahoo, TradeWave Galaxy, Excite, Inktomi, and Alta Vista) and returns a single configured screen of results.


any all as a phrase

WebCrawler

America Online's resident World Wide Web site catalog

Enter some words and start your search:

Find pages with of these words and return results.

WWWomen

Starting point for links to any women's issues online

Search tips: The more keywords you add, the wider your search. To narrow yoursearch, check some of the options on the site.
Yahoo

Enter Keyword(s):
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