 | Google - Far and away THE
BEST search engine for finding web sites. |
 | Yahoo - Engine.
One of the first. Find by categories or keyword. |
 | "Live" - Microsoft's newest and
fast growing search site. |
 | MSN - The Microsoft
Network search site. By categories or keywords. |
 | Altavista
- Also portal. Advanced page allows Boolean searches. |
 | Ask - aka "Ask Jeeves"
search engine. Accepts simple questions. |
 | Northern Light - Large
text search facility. Finds sites, news, articles. |
 | Excite - Engine.
Portal and search engine. |
 | Hotbot - Engine.
Subsidiary site of Lycos.
By category or keyword. |
 | Go - New home of former Infoseek.
Engine with categories like Yahoo. |
 | Lycos - Search Engine and
Portal. One of the first. Similar to Yahoo. |
 | Snap - Search Engine and Portal. |
 | About - Database of topics
maintained by topical experts. |
 | Look Smart - Search
engine. By category or keywords. |
 | GoTo - Simple search
site. By categories or keywords. |
 | Search - C|Net
network search page. By categories or keywords. |
 | Find - Heavily
categorized search site. Accepts keywords, too. |
 | Web Crawler -
Engine with categories. One of the first. |
 | Switchboard - Find
people, businesses, and maps. Portal style. |
 | WhoWhere
- Find email, phone, address, web site (many ways). |
 | AnyWho - AT&T
site. Find people or business (many ways). |
 | 411 - Find people,
businesses, places, phones (many ways). |
 | Canada 411 - Find
people and businesses in Canada. |
 | White Pages - Finds
people, area codes, zip codes. |
 | Yellow Pages -
Find businesses by type or name. |
 | Big Yellow - Find
people or businesses by type or name. |