Search engines on Geoff's SILICON SHEEP site

Now my listings, broken up into my current hot list, directory tools, indexing engines and metasearch tools. There are also some specialist file search engines as well.

Hot list

1. Comparisons at www.cnet.com/Content/Reviews/Compare/Search2/?dd : of 7 major search engines, reported 1998-01-15
2. DogPile! at www.dogpile.com : 10 engines 3 at a time
3. Search.com at www.search.com : Search from C|Net
4. Savvy search at eclecticwebs.com/coolsite/searcheng/savvy.html : Reasonably quick
5. Kapow! at www.bam.com.au/kapow/
6. Yahoo! at www.yahoo.com/
7. AltaVista (Aussie mirror) at www.altavista.yellowpages.com.au/ : Australian mirror site - newsgroups too
8. AltaVista (US) at www.altavista.digital.com/ : US home site, (with "more like this")
9. Top 100 at www.mmgco.com/top100.html
10. 4Internet at www.4internet.com : search 150 - 1000 predigested sites

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Directory engines

1. Australian Internet at www.widewest.com.au/
2. Australian Web Sites at www.sofcom.com.au/WWW.AU/
3. Infoseek at guide.infoseek.com/Home?pg=Home.html&sv=N1
4. The Whole Internet Catalog at nearnet.gnn.com/wic/
5. Yellow Pages Australia Search Page at www.yellowpages.com.au/search/
6. Australian White Pages(tm) at www.whitepages.com.au/v2-0/pages_t/welcom_t.htm
7. Official WWW Yellow Pages at www.mcp.com/newriders/wwwyp/

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The Indexers

1. Define the ANZWERS you want! at www.anzwers.com.au/ : Australian and New Zealand sites a speciality. Does rest of world well too.
2. CUI's W3 Catalog at cuiwww.unige.ch/w3catalog/
3. DejaNews - Newsgroup Browser at www.dejanews.com/
4. HotBot at www.hotbot.com/
5. InfoSeek (newsgroups too) at www.infoseek.com/

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Metasearch tools

1. All-in-One Search Page at www.albany.net/allinone/
2. LinkSearch at where.com/ls/LinkSearch.html
3. MetaCrawler at www.cs.washington.edu/research/projects/ai/
   metacrawler/www/home.html
4. SavvySearch at www.cs.colostate.edu/~dreiling/smartform.html
5. W3 Search Engines at cuiwww.unige.ch/meta-index.html
6. WebCrawler Searching at www.webcrawler.com/

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File search engine

1. ArchiePlex ftp at flosun.salk.edu/archieplex.html

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Best in ANY Browser...

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I made the address this way to cool the ardour of email spammers. Sorry about that.
This file's URL: http://www.eagles.bbs.net.au/~geoffm/search.htm
Author: Geoff Mutton
First created 1997-09-07
Last updated 1997-07-25 - International Organisation for Standards rules OK !