W3 Search Engines

This documents collects some of the most useful search engines available on the WWW. Omissions are the fault of the maintainer. Suggestions for additions are welcome! Submit buttons have now been added to accommodate non-Mosaic browsers.

NB: If you find this page especially useful, why not install a local copy on your machine? It will work from anywhere. [The original source of this page is at CUI] You may also be interested in trying out Martijn Koster's CUSI (Configurable Unified Search Interface), and the External Info page at Twente University.

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Last update of original source on November 25, 1994.
Last update of this copy on August 31, 1995.


Information Servers

List-based WWW Catalogs

CUI World Wide Web Catalog

Global Network Academy Meta-Library

Aliweb (Archie-like Indexing for the Web)

See also:
Aliweb at Nexor
The-InIS (Sam Hopkins's The-Inter.net's Info Server)

Spider-based WWW Catalogs

WebCrawler (Search WWW document content) AND words together

RBSE's URL database (Search WWW document full text)

NIKOS

JumpStation (Search WWW document )

NorthStar (Search WWW document headers)

WWW Worm (Search )

Other Catalogs

Lycos WWW search engine at Carnegie Mellon University

The Whole Internet Catalog

Veronica (Gopher directory search)

Search the Web at EINet Galaxy

Veronica subset (Gopher directory search) at EINet Galaxy

Jughead (Gopher directory search)

WAIS directory-of-servers index (gateway access)

WAIS directory-of-servers index (direct access)

Thesaurus Search

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Software

Archieplex (Swiss server at SWITCH)

The Language List

The Free Compilers List

The Free Database List

keyword in SW archive using Shase.

See also:
Nexor's Mac Software Catalog
Iconix WWW PowerPage

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People

Netfind gateway (name key key ...)

Finger gateway at Digital CRL

Finger gateway at mit.edu

Ph gateway at

UFN Search (X.500 directory)

See also:
FOUR11 Directory Services

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Publications

Rik Harris' Abstracts Index

The Unified CS TR Index

Computer Science TR Archive Sites

OO Bibliography (object-oriented and related papers)

Gopher Catalog of Electronic Texts

See also:
Cornell University's Technical Report Library

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News/FAQs

WAIS FAQ Search at Utrecht University

HTTP FAQ Search (broken?)

Gopher FAQ Search

Search news.announce.conferences

Search today's usenet news

Interesting:
Conference Announcement Archive (moderated by Juergen Wagner)

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Documentation

Big Dummy Search

NCSA Docfinder

BSD/386 Hypertext Man Pages

CUI Computer Science Library

See also:
Nexor's Public Services
RFC index at Nexor
Internet Draft Index at Nexor

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Other Interesting Things

Hacker's Jargon

Acronym Search

Say (Text to Speech Translator)

Sherlock (Catalog of Real Estate Listings)

See also:
American recordings
WIRED Archive
Thomas Register of American Manufacturers

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See also: CUI's collected search engines.


This page was originally inspired by NCSA's Experimental Search Engine Meta-Index.

Thanks to all who have contributed suggestions!


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