Searching the Internet

AltaVista HotBot Infoseek Webcrawler Lycos Internet Search Inktomi Excite SavvySearch Yahoo Search Planet Earth - Search Engine Open Text Corporation - Quick Search EINet Galaxy search option CUSI, Quarterdeck Site PC Magazine - Search Tools The Internet Sleuth Internet Search Engines Cyberspace Connection - Search Engines Searching GopherSpace DejaNews

AltaVista

Significant search option. From Digital Equipment Corporation

HotBot

Significant search option that provides more access to data than Alta Vista though not as much control of the search.

Infoseek

Useful search options with significant data.

Webcrawler

Quick search.

Searched for search engines. Found 25(max) with 100% relevant in 5 sec. Tue, Jun-27-1995, 11:08am CST.

Lycos

From Carnegie-Mellon, very extensive database.

Searched for search engines. Found 74 with 60% of 1st 10 relevant in 120 sec. Tue, Jun-27-1995, 11:13am CST.

Internet Search

A list of search options from the Netscape providers. Infoseek is the first option.

Searched for search engines. Found 10 with 100% relevant in 9 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:08pm CST.
Note: Free version of Infoseek service shows 10 items.

Inktomi Search Engine

One of the newer search engines, from the University of California at Berkeley.

Searched for search engines. Found 20 with 100% relevant in 5 sec. Mon, Nov-13-1995, about 8:45pm CST.
Note: Additional items were available. Almost all of the first 100 items were relevant.

Excite Netsearch

Includes option for searching Usenet news.

Searched for search engines. Found over 100 with about 90 - 95% relevant. Had found over 40 items in 15 sec. Mon, Nov-13-1995, about 9:15pm CST.
Note: Additional items were available.

SavvySearch

Sends search requests to several WWW search sites at one time.

Searched for search engines. Found 76 with about 80% relevant in 55 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:33pm CST.
Searched for search engines. Found 76 with about 80% relevant in 50 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 10:16pm CST.
Note: Options were WWW Resources, Reference, Academic, and 5 Engines.

Yahoo Search

Searched for search engines. Found 11 with 82% relevant in 8 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:40pm CST.

Planet Earth Home Page - Introductory Information

Search option is toward the last of the page. A more direct approach to searching is Planet Earth Home Page - Search Engine.

Searched for search engines. Found 8 with 0% relevant in 5 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:43pm CST.

Open Text Corporation - Quick Search

There are a few other options including Power Search that allows using logic like AND, OR, NEAR, and limiting by fields.

Searched for search engines. Found 3627 with 80% from the first 10 relevant in 26 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:47pm CST.
Note: First ten items originally shown. Additional items are available.

EINet Galaxy

Includes a subject arrangement and a search option.

Searched for search engines. Found 2621 with 0% of the first 40 relevant in 29 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:53pm CST.
Note: Relevance to search request was not determined from titles as shown.

CUSI, Quarterdeck Site

Searched for search engines. Found 0 with 0% relevant in 300 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 12:58pm CST.
Note: Used first search option, stopped the process after 5 minutes.

PC Magazine - The World-Wide Web: A Guided Tour of 100 Sites

Includes Search Tools, Education, Computing, Government, and Business.

Note: Not a different search engine.

The Internet Sleuth

Access to many searchable databases.

Searched for search engines. Found 2 with 100% relevant in 14 sec. Thu, Jun-29-1995, 3:46pm CST.

Internet Search Engines

Note: Not a different search engine.

Cyberspace Connection - Search Engines

Note: Database is being developed.

Gopher Menu for searching GopherSpace

Searchable Gopher Index

Searched for search engines. Found about 124 with 5 to 70% relevant in 19 sec. Fri, Jun-30-1995, 7:37pm CST.
Note: The data represents the time for the first search that was processed. Very few items were relevant to searching the WWW; however, many of the items were relevant to the general topic of search engines.

DejaNews Research Service

Searches Usenet news.

Searched for search engines. Showed 120 of 2648 with almost all of the items relevant in 18 sec. Mon, Nov-13-1995, 9:29pm CST.