SEARCHABLE SHAREWARE LIBRARIESC/Net's Virtual Software library boasts over 130,000 software files available from the 22 largest shareware and freeware archives on the Internet. THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS SOFTWARE ARCHIVES Powerful microcomputer search through the Computing and Communications Services Office. Unix, Macintosh, and Windows information can be found through keyword or substring searches (key letters or parts of names) THE M.I.T. INFO-MAC HYPERARCHIVE The Info-Mac HyperArchive at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology provides information on Macintosh products only. Search for keywords in file names and subject lines, by entering one or more words and word fragments (separated by blanks) below. |
CUSI (CONFIGURABLE UNIFIED SEARCH INTERFACE)
Nexor U.K. offers this tool, a single form to search a large number of different WWW engines for documents, people,
software, dictionaries, and more.
http://Web.nexor.co.uk/susi/cusi.html
Yahoo
Yahoo is actually a bit more than just a search engin. It acts as something of a telephone book and subject list with searching capabilities.
http://www.yahoo.com/
Netscape, local search
Our local search engine will accept any word, set of words, or phrases you might use when speaking or writing. For example,
you could search for "downloading Netscape Navigator 1.1" and the results would include every page on our site that includes
that concept.
http://home.mcom.com/search/index.html
Veronica
Search Gopherspace Using Veronica
a title search and retrieval system for use with the
Internet Gopher.
http://veronica.sonoma.edu:8001/home.html
Gopher n.1.Any of various short tailed burrowing mammals of the family Geomyidae, of North America. 2.(Amer.colloq.) Native or inhabitant of Minnesota: the Gopher State. 3. (Amer.colloq.) One who
runs errands, does odd jobs, fetches or delivers documents for office staff. 4.(computer tech.) Software following a simple protocol for tunneling through a TCP/IP internet*
Gopher is a system of text based menus (directories) that groups information together by subject rather than by file type, file name, or actual physical location on the Internet.
ARCHIE BROWSER
It offers complete archie-parameter support (even regular expressions) via a practical user interface, as well as smart, sortable
output with direct hyperlinks to the targets found.
http://phaethon.cti.gr/archie.html
or try:
http://pubweb.nexor.co.uk/public/archie/servers.html
Netscapes Anonymous FTP site
ftp://ftp.netscape.com
Open text Index
The Open Text Index finds pages on the World Wide Web by searching their contents. Like other search engines, the Open
Text Index works by following URLs around the Web, copying in the contents of the pages they point to, indexing them, and
searching through the index.
http://www.opentext.com:8080/omw/f-omw.html
DejaNews
The largest collection of indexed archived Usenet news anywhere!
It's fast. Searches through mountains of Usenet archives in seconds to find the information you need.
http://www.dejanews.com/
Gopher Menu
gopher://silo.adp.wisc.edu/11/.nlsguide
WWWW - WORLD WIDE WEB WORM
WWWW is a World Wide Web Search Engine which you can use to search for information of interest worldwide. WWWW
allows you to locate almost any WWW hypertext (text seen underlined in a Web Browser) or WWW information resource
(URL), simply by specifying some keywords. WWWW provides four types of search databases: citation hypertext, citation addresses (URL), HTML titles and HTML addresses. The latter two are much smaller databases, which can therefore be searched faster. For explanation of the terms HTML, URL and citation see the definitions section below.
WWWW provides three different search techniques for each database: two fast keyword searches and a much slower regular
expression search. In both methods upper case and lower case letters are not distinguished. Finally WWWW allows you to specify a limit for the number of matches you wish returned to you (very useful on slow lines).
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/home/mcbryan/WWWWintro.html
Galaxy
Galaxy is a guide to worldwide information and services and is provided as a public service by TradeWave and Galaxy guest editors.
http://www.einet.net/galaxy.html (lists of topics here)
http://www.einet.net/cgi-bin/wais-text-multi (search here)
The Whole Internet Catalog
The Whole Internet Catalog (WIC) is a hand-picked collection of the best sites the Internet has to offer. Each of the 1200 sites in the WIC has been reviewed and categorized by subject by the WIC editorial team. If we don't think our users will find a site useful or entertaining, we don't include it in the catalog.
http://www.ora.com/gnn/wic/index.html
The Internet Public Library Ready Reference Collection
The IPL Ready Reference Collection is a collection of Internet resources gathered together with the needs of the Internet
community in mind. It is not intended to be a comprehensive hotlist to all sites on every subject, but rather an annotated collection, chosen to help answer specific questions quickly and efficiently. Sources are selected according to ease of use, quality and quantity of information, frequency of updating, and authoritativeness.
http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref/RR/
The WWW Virtual Library
This is a distributed subject catalogue. See Overview, Library of Congress Classification (Experimental), Top Ten most popular Fields (Experimental), Statistics (Experimental), and Index. See also arrangement by service type ., and other subject catalogues of network information .
http://www.w3.org/hypertext/DataSources/bySubject/Overview2.html
RiceInfo collection of "Information by Subject Area"
These directories contain links to resources organized by subject
matter. The resources themselves are scattered all over the Internet
http://riceinfo.rice.edu/RiceInfo/Subject.html (main page)
gopher://riceinfo.rice.edu:8002/7 ( searchable Gopher index)
ALIWEB Search Form
This form queries the ALIWEB database. You can provide multiple search terms separated by spaces, and the results will be
displayed in a best-match order.
http://web.nexor.co.uk/public/aliweb/search/doc/form.html
The Internet Sleuth
note that many of the sites listed here have additional fields that can be set that we have not included. It is always a good idea to check out the link above the search box to become familiar with the search terms and other available fields that these sites may offer.
http://www.intbc.com/sleuth/
Gopher Search
This is a searchable Gopher index.
gopher://liberty.uc.wlu.edu:3002/7
Monster FTP Sites List
FTP (File Transfer Protocol) allows a person to transfer files between two computers, generally connected via the Internet. If your system has FTP and is connected to the Internet, you can access very large amounts of files available on a great number of computersystems.
http://hoohoo.ncsa.uiuc.edu/ftp/
Searchers
Here you'll find search and retrieve engines, such as Archie, Veronica, Jughead, the Web Crawler, plus indices, databases, etc. Plus pages with multiple search forms, and even multiple search devices that will check several databases at once.
http://www.netgen.com/cgi/wandex
OKRA net. citizens Directory Service
OKRA will help you find email addresses of your friends, organizations and even your dog (if it uses the net...) Essentially,
there are two functions provided, submitting a query, and performing and add/delete from the database. Primary differences
between this database and most others are that we do not require any registration for using our service, our data comes from a
variety of differing sources, and of course, we're just college kids.
http://okra.ucr.edu/okra/info.html
Netfind Email Address Searches http://honor.uc.wlu.edu:1020/netfind/na%20server/na%20-sg%20-hm
IWeb Query Form
The IWeb service is just getting started
http://sparta.lcs.mit.edu/cgi-bin/iweb-query/yours
Netfind
A very persistent program that searches a variety of databases to help you find someone. Not very easy to use, but it may be
easier than looking through several different white pages servers to find someone.
http://nearnet.gnn.com/gnn/wic/wp.07.html
Four11
If you have a hunch someone you know is rolling down the Infobahn, but you can't locate that person, you might try Four11
Directory Services. While the Internet has no central directory, Four11 has about 500,000 entries and a fast, custom database
engine for searching. New listings are incorporated daily. You can search the directory by any combination of first name, last
name, location, and old email address. Four11 is a free service from SLED Corporation. (Note: New users will have to fill
out a brief registration form before they can search the database.)
http://www.four11.com/Sled.html
Knowbot Information Service
The Knowbot Information Service is a "white pages" service that will search for a name through a large number of Internet
databases. It's a great way to look up friends and acquaintances. It's not yet as convenient as it might be, but Knowbots are
among the newest and most advanced services on the Internet; it's worth knowing about them.
telnet://info.cnri.reston.va.us:185/ (this is a telnet address)
List of Internet Whois Servers
Lists of all of the known whois-style white pages servers on the Internet, and related information.
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/whois/
LookUP! Directory Services
A Web-based directory of over 600,000 email addresses. Basic searches are free; advanced features require membership (also
free as of June 10, 1995). While the advanced search has some cool features, the basic search works great for a
straightforward name search.
http://www.lookup.com/
WWWeb to X.500 Gateway
If you need an email address and you know where a person works or goes to school, the WWWeb to X.500 Gateway at the University of Texas is a great tool -- as long as you use it properly. The problem is that X.500 is an email directory protocol that isn't used by everyone on the Net; hence, many institutions with email access are not included in this directory. When it comes to navigating the directory, the best strategy is to follow the geographic and institution links down to the department or division of the person you're looking for. No matter how tempting, lay off the search engine until you're completely stuck -- most of the time it's worse than useless.
http://ldap.utexas.edu:8888/M
All the FAQs
A FAQ is the first refuge of an Internet user. There are thousands of FAQs on as many different subjects, written by longtime users who grew tired of answering the same questions over and over again. Thomas Fine has helped provide a better answer to the frequently asked question: how can I find the FAQ I need? He has created a hypertext database of FAQs and made them available through Ohio State University.
http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/FAQ-List.html
Usenet Info Center Launch Pad
Formerly called "The Bible of Usenet," this is a comprehensive list of answers to FAQs about Usenet. The site includes documents for new users and the Newsgroup Info Center where you can browse the groups by category or view the master list of Usenet groups. The advanced Usenet Info section offers tips for creating a new Usenet group with specific sections on alt groups.
http://sunsite.unc.edu/usenet-b/home.html
USENET Periodic Posting Archives
A repository of the periodic informational postings of the newsgroups. There is a directory corresponding to each newsgroup
name. The directory contains all regular postings to the newsgroups (including FAQ lists), as well as many other "general interest" postings that have sprung out of the newsgroups.
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet
SIFT
Stanford Netnews Filtering Service (e-mail search service covering net news)
Netnews, or USENET News, is a bulletin board system on the Internet. It is organized into discussion groups (called newsgroups) covering a wide variety of topics, e.g., from robotics to video game tips, from food recipes to politics. Its total readership is in millions and daily traffic in tens of MBs. One problem with Netnews is the volume and diversity of information. Our filtering service allows the user to express her interests in finer granularity (using profiles) than
newsgroups, and hopefully can provide a better match of interests.
http://woodstock.stanford.edu:2000/
Hypertext Webster Interface
This hypertext Webster interface provides a point-and-click client interface (for non-linemode browsers) for accessing the
various Webster's dictionary services on the Internet.
http://c.gp.cs.cmu.edu:5103/prog/webster
Free On-Line Dictionaries of Computing
http://www.yahoo.com/Reference/Dictionaries/Computing_Dictionaries
A Better Galaxy Search Engine
The Galaxy uses WAIS technology for searching various indexes. Until now, the FreeWAIS software we used was ill-suited for searching a really large index like our Gopherspace - it used way too much computer memory! We had been forced to limit Gopher searches to keep the Galaxy from imploding.
http://galaxy.einet.net/fixed.html
The Web Press Text Search & Retreival System
The search engine will scan the contents of theweb pages or text files in the section choosen for all occurances of the keyword and display them for you in the context ofeach sentenence. Click on the hypertext word list and you will be shown the web page or text document and the surrounding3000 characters of text around the search word(s). If this is what you are looking for then click the hypertext again and theentire web page or text document will be displayed. This is a very powerful tool to search thousands of Web Press pages, word for word, for keywords of specific or general interest with minimal navigation. Multiple word searches take longer than single word searches.
http://www.webtown.com/searcher.cgi
Open Market's Commercial Sites Index.
We list companies, institutions, or organizations with a presence on the World Wide Web, not individual products or services.
http://www.directory.net/dir/submit.cgi
EOL Search Guide
This search engine will search for documents on this server by keyword. It uses a WAIS indexer and search engine and it's very fast. Also included are a ready to use subject searches on topics relevant for this server
http://eol.ists.ca/info/search.html
Clearinghouse
The Premiere Internet Research Library
The Clearinghouse for Subject-Oriented Internet Resource Guides
http://www.lib.umich.edu/chhome.html
Find a Friend (this search service costs $s)
REUNITE with long lost relatives or friends
GET BACK IN TOUCH with research colleagues
FIND college or high school alumni
SEARCH OUT your veteran friends
COLLECT on an old debt
http://www.ais.net/findafriend/
ALL-IN-ONE Search Page
This page is a compilation of various forms-based search tools found on the Internet. They have been combined here to form a consistent interface and convenient
http://www.albany.net/~wcross/all1srch.html
BROWSING AND SEARCHING INTERNET RESOURCES
SEARCHING Gopher and WWW (lots of good info. here plus links)
Combined and collected search engines
Details about the most important search engines
Robot-based WWW Catalogs
Indexing full document content, more or less
Indexing various elements from the documents
List- and template-based WWW Catalogs
Fee-based search services
Indexes for individual types of Web resources and/or other protocols
Library catalogs (OPACs)
Search for OPACs and connect
Search records from OPACS through HTML Forms
http://www.ub2.lu.se/nav_menu.html
Excite The intelligent way to navaigate the internet*****
(very nice interface, highly useable)
http://www.excite.com/
The Art History Research Centre: Search Engines
World Arts Search Form
This is a new searchable index for the arts. We have compiled over 400k of unique arts related URL's world wide. Enter the information that you are looking for. For example, if you are looking for museum you will enter museum and the search engine will find all museums that are available. You can then search the museums index for further information or a particular museum. You can also enter the artist's name or art gallery that you are looking for and you should be able to find whatever you are looking for if it exists on the Internet.
http://www.cgrg.ohio-state.edu/Newark/suche.html
Dow Jones
Dow Jones News/Retrieval is the world's premier online business news and information service from Dow Jones & Company, Inc. News/Retrieval offers the most important and prestigious
business news available and is the exclusive provider of the full text of The Wall Street Journal and the same-day text The New York Times News Service, the Los Angeles Times and the Financial
Times. News/Retrieval has over 265 U.S. regional and local newspapers, including 8 of the top 10 and 41 of the top 50 in the United States -- more than any other online service.
http://bis.dowjones.com/djnr.html
Postal Service (search for zip code)
Address Quality & ZIP Code Lookup
http://www.usps.gov/ncsc/
Tribal Voice Search
Native American search engine
http://www.tribal.com/search.htm
USA Reference Desk
USA services and state services
http://http://enterprise.spawar.navy.mil/
Virtual Reference Desk
Search dictionaries,thesauruses,atlases,phonebooks,etc
http://thorplus.lib.purdue.edu/reference/index.html
Wandex, the World Wide Web Wanderer index
Over 71,000 pages referenced
http://www.netgen.com/cgi/wandex
Open Market's directory of commercial services, products, and information on the Internet.
http://www.directory.net/
World Wide Yellow Pages
where to look for all businesses providing a service.
listings sorted by name
Browse by locations -- listings organized by where a business is located
http://www.yellow.com/
The List
THE LIST(tm), the world's most comprehensive list of Internet service providers. It is brought to you by
Colossus. Colossus provides web pages and listservers on the Internet.
http://thelist.com/
SEARCHING THE INTERNET ABOUT SEARCHING
good info about searching for data on the net
http://www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/bpl/bkmk/search.html
Book Stacks Unlimited, Inc.
"You want books? They got books - and tons of literary info, to boot." (for more of the same, check out Scribblings). Our Web Bookstore "shelves" hold over 330,000 titles, and we have lots of other little goodies too. (Or use our Telnet Bookstore.)
http://www.books.com/
Jughead
Definition: Jughead gets menu information from gopher servers.
The Internet-tools list is also indexed in the CUI Catalog. This Catalog, developed by Oscar Nierstrasz (formerly of) the Centre Universitaire d'Informatique (CUI), l'Universite de Geneve, uses the full-page version of this Internet Tools list in its search engine (along with other lists). Therefore, you can use CUI Web Catalog as handy index to quickly find keyword matches in this document. Caveat: the CUI catalog does not index resources in my document such as an entry for a paper-based source or a email resource that does not include a URL.
http://www.loria.fr/~charoy/InternetWeb/itools/search-itools.html
NIR = NETWORK INFORMATION RETRIEVAL / Tools / Netserv
Definition: Netserv is a server for access to data files and programs of general interest. Netserv info/EARN: from European Academic Research Network Association (EARN)
http://www.earn.net/gnrt/netserv.html