Web Search Tools

Alltheweb

Altavista
Offering compact or detailed searches through what the company claims is the largest Web index, Digital Equipment Corporation's Alta Vista can help you find your way through 8 billion words filling 16 million Web pages. It also provides a full-text index of more than 13,000 newsgroups.

Anywho

Excite
Excite tracks down information by searching for concepts, not just keywords. Updated weekly, Excite's database contains what the company claims are more than 1.5 million Web pages, 50,000-plus Web page reviews written by journalists, the latest two weeks of Usenet news, and classifieds. Excite also includes City. Net, news from Reuters, and an interactive cartoon.

Findlaw

Google

InfoSeek
Rated the number one search service by PC Computing, Infoseek Guide helps you find what you're looking for on the Net, for free. With each search, you get the most relevant matches, related topics to explore, and timely news and views from popular magazines, TV networks, and the best online experts. Infoseek Guide also makes it easy to find email addresses, stock quotes, company profiles, and more.

Law.com

Lycos
This comprehensive catalog of the Internet finds what you need in seconds, including text, graphics, sounds, and videos. PC World magazine recently rated Lycos best of the top 11 Internet search engines in both quality of information and relevancy of results.

Search.Com
c|net's search.com combines more than 250 search engines at one site to offer a single gateway to all the information on the Net. search.com, a service of c|net, offers access to all of the major search services, plus hundreds of specialized databases.

Webcrawler
An easy-to-use and simple interface search engine run by America Online. An oldy-but-goody in the Internet search world, Webcrawler provides a good starting point for research.

Yahoo
Arguably the pioneer Internet guide, Yahoo has been accepting submissions since what seems like the beginning of it all. There's an editorial filter at work here - not every college student's home page makes it into the directory - but Yahoo's veteran status has allowed it to build a comprehensive cross-discipline resource base.