
- Alta Vista
Digital Equipment's Alta Vista search engine.
- AnyWho
Finds current telephone numbers, E-mail addresses, Web sites. The site has access to
90 million consumer and 10 million business listings.
- Ask Jeeves
An excellent search engine, this site's specialty is natural language queries. For
example, one person asked "Where can I find encyclopedic resources on octopus?"
- Dejanews
A site capable of searching Usenet newsgroups.
- Dog Pile
This site lets you search the Web for categories of information, such as "Images"
and "Audio/MP3."
- Excite.com
Excite offers you the choice of searching the Web, news, or the Excite directory.
- EZ-Find
This site polls twelve other indexing sites.
- Google
This is PC World's favorite search engine, giving the most relevant results. I once
searched for the 'Small Business Association.' Google returned the 'Small Business Administration',
which is what I meant to type into the search bar.
- Lycos
The Lycos indexing engine.
- MegaSpider
This site searches other indexing engines for you.
- NlightN
This site searches the Web and commercial databases.
- Open Directory Project
This site depends on a network of volunteer Web users to index the Web. Their
motto is "Humans do it better." The site is on PC World's recommended list.
- Switchboard.com
Finds phone numbers, addresses, and e-mail addresses of people and businesses.
Also provides maps and city guides.
- Welcome to CUI
The computer science department at
the University of Geneva maintains this site. In addition to the search
engine, the Useful Links page points to sites dealing with topics in
computer science.
- Yahoo
The Yahoo search engine.

